Building a statewide home visiting program from 2 to 42 sites: A state agency's perspective
- Authors:
- FOLEY-SCHAIN Karen, FINHOLM Valerie, LEVENTHAL John M.
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 35(4), April 2011, pp.283-286.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
In 1995, in a need to prevent child abuse, the Connecticut Children’s Trust Fund launched a major initiative to develop a universal home visiting programme through the state. Through this programme, the Trust sought to identify at-risk parents and provide them with effective services. The goal of these services was to address risk factors that made parents vulnerable to child abuse and neglect and reduce the number of children substantiated by the child welfare system. This short commentary describes the Trust’s strategy to develop the programme, and describes how it was expanded from 2 to 42 sites. Key amongst these strategies were efforts to gain the support of the state legislature, to develop partnership with academic centres to conduct research, and refine practices as the programme developed.
- Subject terms:
- parents, prevention, risk, social care provision, child abuse;
- Content type:
- practice example
- Location(s):
- United States
- Link:
- Journal home page
- ISSN print:
- 0145-2134