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State and Local Examples: Family Support Services
Resources and information about the development, implementation, and evaluation of family-focused, community-based interventions to prevent child abuse and neglect, offer assistance to families, provide early support for parents, promote the development of parenting skills, increase family stability, and improve family access to community resources.
Family Reclaim: A Community-Based Collaborative to Strengthen Families With Substance Abuse and Neglect Issues
Chambers (2002)
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Lessons learned from a program offering community- and home-based services to families at risk of child abuse and neglect, which specifically targets families experiencing multiple problems in Oakland, California.
Great Starts...Footprints on the Heart
Pack
The Source, 10(3), 2001
Describes an evaluation of a program in Knoxville, Tennessee, that provides a wide variety of services to substance abusing and HIV-infected mothers and their children.
The Homefriends Program
Center for Intergenerational Learning (2001)
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Reports on a child abuse prevention program for families of children with disabilities in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Pressures and Possibilities: Supporting Families and Children at Home
White, Hurley, & Solow
Child Welfare Watch, 14, 2007
Describes the efforts of family support programs in New York City to build community collaboration and create a more inclusive safety net for families.
Prevent Child Abuse Iowa's Young Families Initiative: Final Report, Federal Fiscal Year 2005 (PDF - 528 KB)
Prevent Child Abuse Iowa (2005)
Overview and evaluation of an initiative designed to reduce the risk of child abuse by developing and enhancing networks of community-based, prevention-focused, family support programs that offer assistance to families, provide early support for parents, promote the development of parenting skills, increase family stability, and improve family access to community resources.
Project Milagro
Kappos, Cristo, & Carranza (2004)
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Activities and outcomes of a project that provided home-based services to reduce the risk of child abandonment in families of at-risk Latina women impacted by HIV/AIDS and/or substance abuse in Los Angeles, California.
"Pueblo de Apoyo" = "Village of Support": Abandoned Infants Assistance Program: Final Project Report
Bienvenidos Children's Center (2000)
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Report on a Los Angeles, California program based on Latino cultural values regarding family life with the goal of preventing infant abandonment among HIV-infected or substance-abusing Latina mothers by helping them to develop networks of support.
Standards for Prevention Programs: Building Success Through Family Support (PDF - 638 KB)
New Jersey Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect (2003)
Standards for New Jersey child abuse and neglect prevention programs.
The State of Family Support: Seven-Year Gains From the Family Support America States Initiative
Family Support America (2002)
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Describes the state of family support in the United States based on intensive work with eight States over 7 years, and on additional research conducted on a total of 16 States.
Strategies
Provides training and technical assistance to family resource centers and family support programs throughout California.
Supporting Families Makes a Difference: A Partnership for Prevention and Well-Being (PDF - 87 KB)
Biddleman & Doyle
Protecting Children, 17(2), 2002
Describes a partnership between two programs to increase the effectiveness of activities designed to improve child safety, parent involvement, and community support for families in Pinellas County, Florida.
Valley Youth House Family Intervention Project
Valley Youth House Committee (2001)
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Describes a program to improve parenting skills, reduce the negative effects of neglect for children, and prevent involvement with child welfare services in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
A Vision and Plan for Improving Child Well Being and Strengthening Families in Wisconsin Using Service Integration as the Path (PDF - 107 KB)
Wisconsin Association of Family and Children's Agencies (2003)
Describes the El Paso County, Colorado child welfare model, which coordinated child welfare and income support services to respond to families with multiple needs, and discusses planned implementation of that model in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.
Year Four Evaluation Report Executive Summary (PDF - 79 KB)
Birth and Beyond (2004)
Findings from an evaluation of a home visitation program in Sacramento, California.