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Free To Grow: Head Start Partnerships to Promote Substance-Free Communities Free to Grow: Head Start Partnerships to Promote Substance-Free Communities tested an innovative approach to two closely related public health problems - substance abuse and child abuse. | Grant Results Reports | 10/05/2009 |
Improving the Health of All Americans By Focusing on the Early Years of Life A fact sheet from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America on the early years of life. | Fact sheets | 07/13/2009 |
| Slides | 06/25/2009 | |
Early Assessment of Programs and Policies on Childhood Obesity In order to guide investments in evaluation and research, pre-evaluation assessments known as evaluability assessments, can be used to determine whether a rigorous evaluation study is feasible and merited for a particular program. | Evaluations, Evaluation projects | 01/12/2009 |
An Immigrant Community Takes Actions Against Drug Addiction The Head Start program in New York City developed Project Right Start, a family and community-strengthening model that prepares parents to participate actively in community efforts to address substance abuse and related issues. | Grant Results Reports | 09/05/2008 |
The Benefits of Early Childhood Programs are Benefits to Our Nation RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., provides remarks at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America field hearing in Raleigh, N.C. | Speeches and commentaries, President's Corner | 06/23/2008 |
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America Holds First Public Hearing The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America heard testimony from more than a dozen experts in early life experiences and interventions at its first public hearing June 12, 2008. | Video, News releases | 06/12/2008 |
Early Childhood Experiences and Health This issue brief examines how social and economic conditions shape children's health. | Issue and policy briefs, Reports | 06/10/2008 |
Grant Results Topic Summary: Lessons Learned: Working With Schools This report highlights lessons RWJF has learned about how to approach philanthropic work with schools and school districts. | Grant Results special reports, Grant Results topic summaries | 02/12/2008 |
New York City's Head Start Tries to Create Safe, Drug-Free Environments From June 1998 through June 2004, Free to Grow attempted to replicate the program's substance abuse strategies in Head Start programs in three high-risk neighborhoods in New York City. | Grant Results Reports | 02/26/2007 |