by Adam Shapiro | Jun 18, 2017 | News |
Christopher Chambers is a parent educator and fatherhood specialist in the Parents as Teachers program in Missouri. He wrote this op-ed about home visiting: As a fatherhood specialist with Parents As Teachers, I try to capture and build on that special something — the...
by Adam Shapiro | Jun 18, 2017 | News |
From my experience in law enforcement and now as a member of Congress and senior member of the House Ways and Means Committee, I know that innovative methods are often the most powerful solutions to challenging problems. Abuse and neglect is no exception. Voluntary,...
by Adam Shapiro | Jun 12, 2017 | News |
The Association of State and Tribal Home Visiting Initiatives welcomes congressional movement last week to extend the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood (MIECHV) voluntary home visiting program through the introduction of reauthorization legislation. MIECHV...
by Adam Shapiro | May 28, 2017 | News |
Evidence-based research found, for example, that a well-designed program of home visiting by medical or social service professionals can measurably improve outcomes for the children of low-income families. This program — the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home...
by Adam Shapiro | May 28, 2017 | News, Uncategorized |
The Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program, which provides training and support to families so that they can raise healthy children, would receive $400 million for fiscal 2018 under the budget proposal. The budget proposal is a welcome...
by Adam Shapiro | May 15, 2017 | News |
EDITOR: Monday’s article ably explores the problem of kindergarten unreadiness affecting many local children (“Learning lag still persists”). An important piece of this puzzle, though, is all but overlooked. While it’s true that 90 percent of brain growth occurs...
