Each year in the United States, more than 600,000 children are victims of child abuse. Nationally, more than one-third (34.2%) of child maltreatment victims are three years old or younger, with ...

Home visitor Mayra Ocampo, left, and parent Isabel Valencia take turns reading a children's book in Valencia's living room during a weekly home visit. PUEBLO, Colorado — Standing in her living room, ...

PUEBLO, Colo.PUEBLO, Colo. — Standing in her living room, Isabel Valencia sets up her makeshift tennis serve with the materials on hand: a green balloon for a ball and a ruler affixed to a paper plate ...

What does it mean to be "pro-family"? Host Steve Hilton of "The Next Revolution" noted on Sunday evening that one of the most pivotal times to support and assist families in America is "when children ...

During a role-playing activity on March 4, 2024, in San Antonio, Texas, home visitor Amanda Pedlar and parent Bridget Collins check their smiles in a mirror, illustrating what someone might look like ...

A highly lauded and widely adopted program that relies on home visits by paraprofessionals to promote effective parenting in families at risk of child abuse succeeded in building trust, but neither ...

A colicky baby and the lack of support led first-time mom Fatima Ray to call a number at the library offering parenting help. It put her in touch with a home visiting program, in which trained ...

Alisha enrolled in home visiting in November 2018, right before the birth of Andre, her fifth child. At the time, her highest level of education was 11th grade. Her home visitor identified a high ...

A paper in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that Nurse-Family Partnership ® (NFP), a prenatal and early child home visiting program, did not improve birth outcomes for low-income ...