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Feeding Our Future: Growing Up Healthy with WIC
2009
This report by Children’s HealthWatch highlights the implications of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on very young children. The report details research indicating that WIC improves children’s health as well as reduces the risk of developmental delays.
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Child and Youth Emergency Mental Health Care: A National Problem
2007
This policy brief summarizes the incidence of emergency room usage by children, youth, and adults seeking treatment for mental health problems.
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Copy That: Guidelines for Replicating Programs to Prevent Teen Pregnancy
2006
Whether considering a program for replication or preparing a program for replication by others, a number of key questions must be considered: What is the program intended to accomplish? Is the program effective? What makes it effective? Is the program ready to be replicated? What is the replication plan? This report draws on the replication experiences of three programs: Plain Talk, the Teen Outreach Program, and the Children's Aid Society-Carrera Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Program. It provides a brief overview of the primary issues involved in replicating a program to prevent teen pregnancy.
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The Power of Plain Talk: Exploring One Program's Influence on the Adolescent Reproductive Health Field
2006
This report explores whether there had been a general change or shift in attitudes and beliefs about parental involvement in the adolescent reproductive health field over the past decade, and whether or not Plain Talk had played a role in bringing about that change. The report also covers issues such as access to services and disproportionate rates of pregnancy and STDs among minority populations.
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Mental Health Practice: Guidelines for Child Welfare
2009
These guidelines and supporting rationale were developed from the October 2007 Best Practices for Mental Health in Child Welfare Consensus Conference sponsored by Casey Family Programs, the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the REACH Institute (Resource for Advancing Children’s Health). The purpose of this convening was to develop best practice standards for addressing mental health in child welfare by focusing on: mental health screening and assessment, psychosocial interventions, psychopharmacological interventions, parent support and empowerment, and, lastly, youth support.
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Connecting to Community and Building Accountability: Findings From the 2008 Survey of Foundations From Health Care Conversions
2007
This report is based on a survey of more than a hundred healthcare-conversion foundations on a variety of issues related to community engagement, governance policies, and leadership succession planning. Three-fourths of respondents report moderate to high levels of engagement with their communities through their boards, advisory committees, and coalitions. In addition, the foundations actively solicit input about community health needs. Nearly half of the more than one hundred respondents have conducted community health assessments, and almost 80 percent of those have reported changing their strategies or priorities based on the assessments.
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Borrowing to Stay Healthy: How Credit Card Debt Is Related to Medical Expenses
2007
Financially stretched low-and middle-income families often find it difficult to meet out of pocket medical expenses, often turning to credit cards and accruing medical debt. To gain a better understanding of this phenomenon, this report analyzes data from a national household survey of low-and middle-income households with credit card debt.
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Strengthening Policies to Support Children, Youth, and Families Who Experience Trauma
2007
In this report, researchers reviewed the current policies and practices as documented in literature, met with policy and practice experts, and analyzed case studies related to the support of children, youth, and families exposed to trauma.
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How Does Family Well-Being Vary Across Different Types of Neighborhoods?
2006
This paper uses the latest data from the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) to explore variations across types of neighborhood environments in the well-being of families and children. Its goal is to take advantage of the richness of NSAF's data on family work effort, economic security, access to services and supports, and child well-being to shed new light on the relevance and role of neighborhood environment. This publication is part of the Urban Institute’s Assessing the New Federalism project that can be found at http://www.urban.org.
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