Healthy Families America: Using Research To Enhance Practice.

Daro, Deborah A.; Harding, Kathryn A.

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ERIC Number: EJ589000

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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Healthy Families America: Using Research To Enhance Practice.

Daro, Deborah A.; Harding, Kathryn A.

Future of Children, v9 n1 p152-223 Spr-Sum 1999

Describes the Healthy Families America (HFA) initiative, a program that seeks to expand the availability of high-quality, intensive home-visitation services. Reports on evaluation of HFA programs, which have not shown significant improvements in children's development and maternal social support so far. (SLD)

Descriptors: Child Development, Community Health Services, Early Intervention, Home Visits, Parent Education, Research Utilization, Social Support Groups

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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Note: Theme issue titled "Home Visiting: Recent Program Evaluations." Research supported in part by the Carnegie Corporation.