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Current Projects
Because Kids Count! Building and Enhancing Community Alliances United for Safety and Empowerment
CDC’s BECAUSE Kids Count! Program expands the capacity of national
organizations and their state, local, and regional affiliates to effectively address the prevention of child maltreatment. CDC is funding the National Alliance of Children’s Trust and Prevention Funds, Parents Anonymous, and Prevent Child Abuse America to:
- expand their leadership role in addressing the prevention of child maltreatment before it occurs;
- foster collaborations to respond to emerging policy and program issues;
- conduct organizational assessments to determine organizational readiness to fully engage in preventing child maltreatment before it occurs;
- and develop a prevention plan with emphasis on preventing child maltreatment before it occurs.
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Responsible Fatherhood Project
Circle of ParentsŪ has received a five year grant from the DHHS to develop and implement training and technical assistance to increase the capacity of home visitation programs to provide support and education for expectant and new fathers. The targeted population will include married and unmarried fathers whose spouses, partners or mothers of their babies are receiving home visiting services through Healthy Families America (HFA) or Parents as Teachers (PTA). Utilizing the self-help parent support model and the Conscious FatheringTM curriculum, fathers will support and learn from each other about responsible parenting.
Research Center staff will design a data system to track and document the development of the program on a quarterly basis. In addition, process and outcomes evaluation studies will be conducted for the program sites that join the project during the first two years.
Tribal Youth Victimization and Delinquency Project
Funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), the Tribal Youth Victimization and Delinquency study seeks to advance our knowledge of the nature and scope of victimization and delinquency among American Indian/Alaskan Native (AI/AN) youth, with a goal of informing prevention and treatment programs and policy nationwide. In partnership with the National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) www.nicwa.org and Purdue University Calumet, the project uses a community-based participatory research approach to learn more about victimization of American Indian and Alaska Native youth in the home, community, and institutional settings, and understand how the experience of victimization impacts youth behavior and outcomes. This three year project began in 2008.
Program Information Management System (PIMS)
As Healthy Families America has grown nationally, sites have required better tools to manage their programs and serve their participants locally. Prevent Child Abuse America developed the Program Information Management System (PIMS) to assist local sites in meeting those needs.
PIMS is a computerized data collection, management, and reporting tool that enables HFA sites to manage and report on the community programs and participant services they provide. In addition, PIMS allows Prevent Child Abuse America to provide ongoing feedback on the development of the HFA initiative. The program consists of three interrelated modules: the Program Management Component, the Participant-Level Tracking Component, and the Quality Assurance Monitoring Program.
Thanks in part to a generous grant from the Verizon Foundation, we are currently developing a new version of PIMS. Improvements in this version focus primarily on:
- improved quality assurance reporting and alignment with the 2007 Self Assessment Tool
- new reports on family outcomes
- ad-hoc querying capability designed to help program managers answer their own questions based on program data
Please refer to the Healthy Families America website for more information on PIMS.
Healthy Families America
Research and evaluation provide a strong foundation for the Healthy Families America (HFA) model, guide continuous quality improvement, and document program effectiveness. In 2007, we produced a peer-reviewed article reviewing 33 evaluations of Healthy Families America sites, with emphasis on 15 studies that include a control or comparison group. Our “Research Spotlight on Success” series highlights the accomplishments of HFA programs.
For more information, see: Harding, Galano, Martin, Huntington, and Schellenbach, (2007). Healthy Families America Effectiveness: A comprehensive review of outcomes. Journal of Prevention and Intervention in the Community, vol. 34, pp. 149-179.
Available From: www.taylorandfrancis.com
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