PPN Newsletter January 2008
Listed below are recent updates to the Promising Practices Network on Children, Families and Communities website (http://www.promisingpractices.net).
UPDATED PROGRAMS THAT WORK
Healthy Families New York Program Continues to Show Proven Outcomes for Children at Risk for Abuse and Neglect
Healthy Families New York (HFNY) seeks to improve the health and well-being of children at risk for abuse and neglect by providing intensive home visitation services. The study on which the updated HFNY program summary is based found that this Proven program continued to reduce child abuse and neglect in the second year of the study. This study is noteworthy because it is one of the few evaluations of home visiting programs that have used a rigorous randomized control design. Additionally, it is the only study of a program using the Healthy Families America guidelines that meets PPN study design criteria, and it finds significant and sizeable effects at a much lower cost than models that rely exclusively on nurses.
More about the HFNY program
More programs related to healthy and safe children
RESEARCH IN BRIEF
Listed below are research summaries that have been added to the PPN site this month.
See all in this area » Healthy and Safe Children
The Association Between Sex Education and Youth's Engagement in Sexual Intercourse, Age at First Intercourse, and Birth Control Use at First Sex
— Jan. 2008
Journal abstract at Journal of Adolescent Health website
Births: Preliminary Data for 2006
— Dec. 2007
A Broken Promise to Our Children: The 1998 State Tobacco Settlement Nine Years Later
— Dec. 2007
Executive summary at Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids website
Childhood Body-Mass Index and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Adulthood
— Dec. 2007
Direct Certification in the National School Lunch Program Expands Access for Children
— Dec. 2007
Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2007
— Dec. 2007
Intimate Partner Violence and Health Care Costs and Utilization for Children Living in the Home
— Dec. 2007
Maternal Depression, Child Behavior, and Injury
— Dec. 2007
The Negative Impacts of Starting Middle School in Sixth Grade
— Dec. 2007
Predicting Language at 2 Years of Age: A Prospective Community Study
— Dec. 2007
Preventive Care for Children in Low-Income Families: How Well Do Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs Do?
— Dec. 2007
Recent Trends in Teenage Pregnancy in the United States
— Dec. 2007
The Sexual Behavior of Young Adolescents
— Dec. 2007
The Effect of Working for Pay on Adolescent Tobacco Use
— Nov. 2007
Health and Economic Benefits of Reducing the Number of Students per Classroom in U.S. Primary Schools
— Nov. 2007
A Multilevel Analysis of State and Regional Disparities in Childhood and Adolescent Obesity in the United States
— Nov. 2007
NIDA Survey Shows a Decline in Smoking and Illicit Drug Use Among Eighth Graders
— Dec. 2007
Racial Disparities in Diabetes Mortality Among Persons Aged 1-19 Years
— Nov. 2007
School Foods Report Card 2007
— Nov. 2007
Three Independent Evaluations of Healthy Kids Programs Find Dramatic Gains in Well-Being of Children and Families
— Nov. 2007
State Food Stamp Participation Rates in 2005
— Oct. 2007
Active Education: Physical Education, Physical Activity and Academic Performance
— Fall 2007
Designing for Active Living Among Children
— Fall 2007
See all in this area » Children Ready for School
An Effectiveness-Based Evaluation of Five State Pre-Kindergarten Programs
— Dec. 2007
Predicting Language at 2 Years of Age: A Prospective Community Study
— Dec. 2007
Preschool: First Findings From the Third Follow-up of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)
— Oct. 2007
See all in this area » Children Succeeding in School
The Negative Impacts of Starting Middle School in Sixth Grade
— Dec. 2007
Health and Economic Benefits of Reducing the Number of Students per Classroom in U.S. Primary Schools
— Nov. 2007
To Read or Not to Read
— Nov. 2007
Active Education: Physical Education, Physical Activity and Academic Performance
— Fall 2007
See all in this area » Strong Families
Direct Certification in the National School Lunch Program Expands Access for Children
— Dec. 2007
Preventive Care for Children in Low-Income Families: How Well Do Medicaid and State Children's Health Insurance Programs Do?
— Dec. 2007
Health and Economic Benefits of Reducing the Number of Students per Classroom in U.S. Primary Schools
— Nov. 2007
State Food Stamp Participation Rates in 2005
— Oct. 2007
ABOUT OUR SUPPORTERS
The Promising Practices Network appreciates the generosity of our supporting organizations:
Annie E. Casey Foundation
The California Wellness Foundation
Colorado Foundation for Families and Children
The Colorado Trust
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Family and Community Trust
Family Connection Partnership
Foundation Consortium for California's Children & Youth
Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children's Media, at Saint Vincent College
Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families (GCYF)
Kansas Action for Children
KidsOhio.org
New York State Office of Children & Family Services
RAND Corporation
The Spencer Foundation
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