Objectives: To assess the impact of a home visiting program in reducing malleable parental
risk factors for child abuse in families of newborns identified, through population-based …

Objectives: To assess the impact of home visiting in preventing child abuse and neglect in
the first 3 years of life in families identified as at-risk of child abuse through population-based …

OBJECTIVES: To assess the impact of a voluntary, paraprofessional home visiting program
in preventing child maltreatment and reducing the multiple, malleable psychosocial risks for …

This study sought to describe fathers' participation in a statewide home-visiting program to
prevent child abuse and to assess program impact on their parenting. This randomized trial …

Although home visiting has been used in many populations in prevention efforts, the impact
of scaled-up home-visiting programs on abuse and neglect remains unclear. The objective …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effects of a home visiting program modeled after Healthy
Families America on parenting behaviors in the first 2 years of life. METHODS: A sample of …

Home visiting programs are a promising early prevention model for improving parenting and
reducing children's risk for child maltreatment. However, randomized studies of widely …

Objective: This study aimed to:(1) Assess the community utility of a screening tool to identify
families with child abuse or neglect risk factors in the immediate postnatal period (2) …

Objective: This exploratory study investigated how attributes from multiple domains influence
retention in a voluntary home-visiting child abuse prevention program. Method: A sample of …

Kimberly Howard and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn examine home visiting, an increasingly popular
method for delivering services for families, as a strategy for preventing child abuse and …