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Locating Family Mental Health Services in Shopping Malls and Schools

March 25, 2013 | Program Result

The UCLA Family Commons is a new model of preventive mental health care that provides nonstigmatized, cost-effective education and coaching to help families with children from infancy to adolescence address common childhood issues.

You Have to Give Her That Confidence - Conversations about Sex in Hispanic Mother-Daughter Dyads

February 28, 2006 | Journal Article

The study sample was comprised of 10 mother-daughter dyads and four additional individuals.

Connecticut Uses RWJF's Family Support Services Program Funding to Expand Parenting Education Agenda

December 7, 2005 | Program Result

Family Support Connecticut worked to expand the infrastructure of Connecticut's family support program and fund parent leadership training through grants to communities.

Mothers Learn to "Cook" Without a Kitchen, Shop Smart and Feed Kids Right

November 1, 1996 | Program Result

This unsolicited project was designed to bridge the significant gap in services that combat homelessness and those that fight against malnutrition in women and children.

Refugees in Metropolitan Atlanta Get Help with Family Violence

September 9, 2011 | Program Result

The Georgia Department of Human Services contracted with two agencies to expand services to refugees affected by domestic violence in the Greater Atlanta area.

Helping Mothers and Children with a Families Center in Washington, D.C.

March 24, 2010 | Program Result

The Developing Families Center in Washington, D.C., provides health and social support services to young women and their families in the city's low-income, Black neighborhoods.

Parents' Medication Administration Errors

February 1, 2010 | Journal Article

Parents often give their children inaccurate doses of medicine. For this study, researchers observed parents administer liquid medicine to their children using a set of standardized dosing instruments. The study occurred in late 2008 at an urban public hospital.

National Organization Expands Resources for Families with Special Needs Children

April 1, 2008 | Program Result

Family Voices, a national organization of parents of children with chronic medical conditions and disabilities, expanded its activities and increase its information-dissemination capabilities nationally.

Dispositional Optimism Protects Older Adults from Stroke

October 1, 2011 | Journal Article

Higher optimism was associated with a lower incidence of stroke in a nationally representative study of people over age 50.

Padres Unidos Advocates for Recess Before Lunch

April 11, 2012 | Program Result

The Healthy Students, Healthy Minds project of Padres Unidos is working with Denver school board officials to implement a recess-before-lunch policy in all public schools, a schedule that gets kids to eat better and reduces discipline problems.

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