by Adam Shapiro | Jun 1, 2016 | News |
Healthy Start is especially designed for new mothers who had little or no prenatal care and for recently discharged infants born at low birth weight. Its home visiting program builds on public health, nutrition and social services offered to women within Pittsburgh...
by Adam Shapiro | May 16, 2016 | News |
Sally learned about the Pine River-Backus Family Center’s home visiting program. With our guidance, Sally learned how to set up a safe home, how to care for her baby and map her future. With caring encouragement and support, Sally could view her pregnancy as a...
by Adam Shapiro | May 16, 2016 | News |
A new program in Highlands County aims for healthy outcomes for young first-time moms and their babies by partnering them with specially trained nurses. The Nurse-Family Partnership program,which is starting to register expectant moms this week, is the latest...
by Adam Shapiro | Apr 23, 2016 | News |
The goal is to support infrastructure development and national expansion of the MTB model in order to improve health and development outcomes in young, vulnerable families during the transition to parenthood. MTB is a federally recognized, evidence-based, intensive...
by Adam Shapiro | Apr 23, 2016 | News |
In 2015, the Maine Families Home Visiting Program worked with more than 2,500 families, helping parents reduce preventive illness and injuries to nearly 2,800 Maine children.Voluntary home-visiting programs also can be an extraordinarily wise investment. Programs have...
by Adam Shapiro | Apr 9, 2016 | News |
Nurse coaching is a vital tool that addresses both the liberal concern about income inequality and the conservative concern about inequality of opportunity. For fiscal conservatives in particular, nurse coaching sharply reduces long-term government spending on...
