Home Visiting Promotes Child Development
Pregnancy is often a difficult time for women. Furthermore, women who lack the sufficient resources to take care of themselves and their growing children, face pregnancy with even greater stress.
Pregnancy is often a difficult time for women. Furthermore, women who lack the sufficient resources to take care of themselves and their growing children, face pregnancy with even greater stress.
A child’s most rapid brain development will occur between birth and age 3. The quality of that early brain development is dependent on a child having access to safe, supportive and stimulating early environments (National Scientific Council on the Developing Child, 2004).
The WIC program (Special Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program for Women, Infants and Children) provides checks or vouchers for certain foods that are nutritionally beneficial to pregnant women, new mothers and children up to five years of age who are nutritionally at risk and meet other inco
An emergency such as a natural disaster often comes with little warning and very little time to plan. Even when a crisis hits on a more personal level (a house fire or loss of a job, for example) having a plan beforehand can help families cope.
Domestic Violence (DV) is serious problem in Shelby County; among aggressive crimes in the City of Memphis, DV accounts for 16% of all murders, 39% of all aggravated assaults, and 60% of all simple assaults (Janikowski & Reed, 2009). Not only does domestic violence affect the individuals inv
Striking a healthy balance between work and family-life is becoming more and more difficult for parents today. Supporting parents’ efforts to be with their children promotes optimal early childhood development.