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Annotation: The main goal of this project was to improve services for infants and toddlers with disabilities (or at risk for disabililties) and for their families by developing an interstate network for early identification and intervention services for this population. Activities included a national network meeting, two regional conferences, an intensive course, small topical meetings, consultations, publications, and a newsletter. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: American Public Welfare Association, Children's Defense Fund, Collaboration of Care, EPDST, Early Intervention, Environmental Risk, Families, Family-Based Health Care, Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition, High risk infants, Networking, PL 99-457, WIC Program

Annotation: This guide provides step-by-step instructions for creating a school health improvement plan. The guide is designed to help communities identify the strengths and weaknesses of school policies and programs for promoting health and safety; develop an action plan for improving student health and safety; and involve teachers, parents, students, and other community members in improving school policies, programs, and services. Contents include instructions for site coordinators, eight self-assessment modules, and an action planning component. Topics include school health and safety policies and environment; health education; physical education and other physical activity programs; nutrition services; school health services; school counseling, psychological, and social services; health promotion for staff; and family and community involvement.

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Keywords: Assessment, Community action, Community participation, Elementary schools, Environmental health, Family school relations, Health promotion, Nutrition, Physical activity, Physical education, Policy development, Program development, Program improvement, Program planning, Safety, School age children, School counseling, School health, School health education, School health services, Social services, Students

Annotation: This guide provides step-by-step instructions for creating a school health improvement plan. The guide is designed to help communities identify the strengths and weaknesses of school policies and programs for promoting health and safety; develop an action plan for improving student health and safety; and involve teachers, parents, students, and other community members in improving school policies, programs, and services. Contents include instructions for site coordinators, eight self-assessment modules, and an action plan component. Topics include school health and safety policies and environment; health education; physical education and other physical activity programs; nutrition services; school health services; school counseling, psychological, and social services; health promotion for staff; and family and community involvement.

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Keywords: Assessment, Community action, Community participation, Environmental health, Family school relations, Health promotion, High schools, Middle schools, Nutrition, Physical activity, Physical education, Policy development, Program development, Program improvement, Program planning, Safety, School age children, School counseling, School health, School health education, School health services, Social services, Students

Annotation: This document describes complementary approaches to helping schools build healthier environments. Topics include school health and safety policies and environment, health education, physical education and other physical activity programs, nutrition services, health promotion staff, and family and community involvement. Through an assessment tool and a customized action plan, the framework is designed to help schools work toward the Alliance for Healthier Generation's National Healthy Schools Award.

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Keywords: Child health, Community participation, Environmental health, Family school relations, Health education, Health promotion, Model programs, Nutrition services, Parent participation, Physical activity, Physical education, Policy development, Safety, School age children, School health, School health programs, Schools, Workplace health promotion

Annotation: This text is organized according to fundamental principles of maternal and child health (MCH), covering traditional topics such as family planning; maternal, infant, and child health and development; as well as skills that are applicable across public heath disciplines such as planning, research, monitoring, and advocacy. Additional topics include environmental health, life course, oral health, program monitoring and evaluation, assessment and planning, MCH research, rights and justice, advocacy and policy development. Topics new in this edition include global health and health disparities in MCH and life course theory. Ancillary course materials for instructors are provided.

Keywords: Advocacy, Child development, Child health, Environmental health, Family planning, Infant health, Life cycle, MCH programs, MCH research, Maternal health, Oral health, Program development, Program evaluation, Public health, Resource for professionals, Textbooks

Annotation: This chartbook presents indicators of the health and well-being of American Indian and Alaska Native children based on the perception of their parents or primary caregivers. Contents include indicators of child health status, health care use, school and activities, family, and neighborhood. National-, regional-, and state-level data are included. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

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Keywords: Academic achievement, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Children, Data, Environmental health, Family relations, Health care utilization, Health status, National surveys, Participation, Physical activity, School to work transition

Annotation: This book describes the strategic plan and development of the Children's Village of Yakima, WA, a center for children with special health care needs located in an isolated rural area characterized by lower-than-average income. The book discusses a various aspects of the center and is divided into the following chapters: (1) a history of family-centered thinking; (2) initial development; (3) fundraising; (4) steps to implementation; (5) choosing complementary services; (6) infrastructure for the model; (7) evaluating an integrated service model; and (8) successes and future challenges.

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Keywords: Case studies, Children with special health care needs, Family centered services, Health facility planning, Program descriptions, Program development, Rural environment, Service delivery, Washington

Annotation: A two-year study at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, assessed the effectiveness of early home visitation in promoting effective parenting by fathers, via expanded continuation of an ongoing 5-year randomized trial (RCT) of Hawaii's Healthy Start Program (HSP). The HSP model is the most widely replicated early home visitation program for environmentally at-risk families. It comprises: 1) community-based screening to identify at-risk families of newborn, and 2) intensive, long-term home visiting by trained paraprofessionals whose direct services and linkage to community resources aim to promote healthy family functioning and maximize child health, development and school readiness. Phase II aims: 1) To expand Year 3 data collection in three ways: a) Expand process data collection to measure paternal engagement in the HSP, b) Initiate paternal interviews to measure directly fathers' parenting behavior and other aspects of functioning, and c) Expand maternal interviews to measure maternal perceptions of the father's parenting attributes. 2) To analyze new and existing study data to a) identify factors influencing fathers' engagement in the HSP; b) measure effects of home visitation on the father, and c) relate paternal engagement in home visiting to program effects for the mother, child, and family as a whole. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Early Childhood Development, Families, Family Environment, Final reports, Home Visiting Programs, Home Visiting Services, Infants, MCH Research, Outreach, Paraprofessional Personnel, Research

Annotation: This study tested a behavioral counseling intervention designed to reduce environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure among babies under age 1. Specific aims were to (1) determine the effects of clinic-based behavioral counseling on ETS exposure among babies of low socioeconomic status (SES), as measured by mothers' reports and babies' urine cotinine analyses; (2) validate parent-reported ETS exposure measures using urine cotinine assays and environmental nicotine monitors; (3) determine the effects of participation on the mothers' smoking rate and the proportion of mothers who quit smoking; (4) explore health outcome measures associated with decreased ETS exposure; and (5) identify possible determinants of ETS exposure. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Counseling, Family Environment, Hispanics, Hispanics, Infant Morbidity, Infants, Infants, MCH Research, Research, Smoking During Pregnancy

Annotation: The goal of the project was to contribute to the developmental literature by examining the ecological, situational, and cultural factors that shape behavior and set African-American children on certain developmental trajectories. Data was collected from 400 African-American children (ages 3 to 4-1/2) and their families in study neighborhoods in Baltimore stratified by socioeconomic status and racial composition. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Blacks, Cultural Sensitivity, Family Environment, Low Income Population, Low Income Population, MCH Research, Research

Annotation: This project tested two hypotheses concerning the impact of pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) on families. The first hypothesis was that moderate to severe TBI will adversely affect the family social environment and will lead to more parental psychological distress than traumatic orthopedic injuries not involving insult to the central nervous system (CNS). The second hypothesis was that postinjury family characteristics will predict outcomes for children with TBI, even after injury severity and preinjury behavior and school performance are taken into account. Multivariate analyses of cross-sectional findings and of changes over time were conducted. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Brain Injuries, Families, Family Characteristics, Family Environment, Injury Prevention, MCH Research, Research, Trauma

Annotation: This report describes the development of family-centered mental health services in Essex County in New York. It discusses the philosophical foundations and ingredients of a consumer-designed, family-centered system, planning to implement the vision, the founding of the Families First program, what a family-friendly agency looks like, principles of a family-friendly system, and coping with barriers to implementation. The text and appendices give many resources to help an agency develop a family-centered program.

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Keywords: Affective disorders, Child welfare, Children with special health care needs, Family centered services, Health care delivery, Mental health services, New York, Parent professional relations, Rural environment

Annotation: This issue of "The Future of Children" contains articles focusing on issues affecting children's and adolescents' health, development, and educational achievement. Three articles focus on the relationship between children and environmental health hazards, case studies on the environmental risks to children, and on developing environmental policies with regard to children's health. Other articles focus on the reform of welfare-to-work programs and the impact on adolescent parents and their ability to support themselves and their children, issues affecting the well-being of immigrant families and their children, and educational issues such as the size of classes on educational achievement, school readiness, and secondary school outcomes for adolescents with serious emotional disturbances.

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Keywords: Academic achievement, Adolescent parents, Adolescents, Affective disorders, Child health, Children, Education, Employment programs, Environmental health, Equal opportunities, Family income, Family relations, Immigrants, Public policy, Risk factors, School readiness, Special health care needs, Welfare reform, Young adults

Annotation: This study sought to identify family influences on early childhood development in a sample of high-risk minority children and their mothers. The ways in which maternal personality, parenting and social support impact on the child, and the relative importance of other family members, such as the child's father and/or grandmothers were examined. In general, aspects of family composition and material functioning were found to be better predictors of child outcome than was maternal age. [Funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau]

Keywords: Adolescent Parents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Blacks, Early Childhood Development, Families, Family Environment, Hispanics, Hispanics, MCH Research, Minorities, Minority Groups, Mother Infant Interaction, Stress, Urban Population, Urban Populations

Annotation: This report looks at the issues of providing community-based family-centered health care to children with special health care needs in rural areas. It also looks at the challenges and strategies of providing such care. The report is both narrative and statistical in nature with the latter based on a survey undertaken to help understand the system of care for rural children. Tables and charts are included.

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Keywords: CSHCN programs, Children with special health care needs, Chronic illnesses and disabilities, Community based services, Data analysis, Family centered services, Rural environment, Rural health, Rural population, Surveys

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Keywords: Academic achievement, Age groups, Asian language materials, Data, Demography, Domestic violence, Economic factors, Education, Environmental health, Family characteristics, Family relations, Fertility, Housing, International data, Leadership, Non English language materials, Political systems, Risk factors, Sex role, Spanish language materials, Women, Women's health, Women's rights, Work force