Discuss home visiting programs. What are they? Who delivers the home visiting program? What forms do they take? Provide examples of the models. Why are they important to discussions of evidence-based interventions of at-risk youth?
What will be an ideal response?
At a minimum, answers should provide a definition of home visiting programs in
which the goal is to provide parents with education, information, access to services,
support, and instruction on parenting practices. The hope is that they will make long-
lasting benefits for child development through altering parent plans and indirectly
creating a diversion from child maltreatment. Such programs are delivered by a wide
array of individuals including social workers, nurses, or other related paraprofessional
staff. There are three primary types of home visiting programs. The first is the Nurse-
Family Partnership which is typically used with low-income, first time mothers prenatally
up to 2 years of the child’s age. The mother is taught health behaviors and the child is
taught developmentally approapriate skills. The second form is Healthy Families
America in which the family is provided with services for up to 5 years of the child’s life.
Parents are provided with parenting skills, child development to disadvantaged mothers,
and other maltreatment prevention efforts. The final form, Early Head Start, is a
federally funded program that provides both in-home parent training and center-based
early care for children. These programs are important because there is evidence to
indicate that these programs are having a profound effect in reducing child maltreatment
risk factors by improving the home environment, parenting, and child development. But,
the evidence indicates an indirect effect. Some of these programs show remarkable
levels of returns on investment. Some as high as 300%.
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