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Healthy Start: Preliminary Results from National Evaluation Are Not Conclusive. United States General Accounting Office Report to Congressional Requesters.
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General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1998
Healthy Start is a 5-year program that encourages community-based strategies for reducing infant mortality. This report addresses Congressional concerns of preliminary evaluation results reported by the press concerning the program's efficacy. The report strives to answer three Congressional concerns: (1) the plan for the national program…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Evaluation Problems, Evaluation Utilization, Federal Programs
Prevention Strategies for Healthy Babies and Healthy Children. Hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. House of Representatives, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First Session.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1983
Testimony presented in this document covers (1) current initiatives in the Public Health Service agenda to promote and protect the health of mothers and infants and to implement specific prevention activities in child health; (2) key issues in outcome and prevention along the human growth line; (3) recent neuroscience research having implications…
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Cognitive Processes, Cost Effectiveness, Early Childhood Education
Oversight of the Healthy Start Demonstration Project. Hearing on the Implementation of the Healthy Start Demonstration Project of the Department of Health and Human Services, Created To Reduce Infant Mortality, and Its Proposed Authorization for Fiscal Year 1997 of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources. United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1996
This hearing transcript presents statements and testimony regarding effectiveness of the Healthy Start Demonstration Project to reduce U.S. infant mortality rates and authorization for funding to establish new sites and to enable exiting programs to act as mentors for and to disseminate information to new projects. Opening statements are presented…
Descriptors: Child Health, Demonstration Programs, Financial Support, Hearings
The Effectiveness of Federal Child and Maternal Health Programs. Hearing before the Subcommittee on Economic Goals and Intergovernmental Policy of the Joint Economic Committee. Congress of the United States, Ninety-Eighth Congress, First Session.
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Joint Economic Committee, Washington, DC. – 1983
Hearings were conducted in November of 1983 to ascertain the impact of specific governmental spending cuts on maternal and child health care. Testimony before the Subcommittee on Economic Goals and Intergovernmental Policy included (1) a summary of findings of a forthcoming report on the world economic crisis and children, which focused…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Children, Exceptional Persons, Federal Programs
Opportunities for Success: Cost-Effective Programs for Children. A Staff Report of the Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1985
The report highlights eight children's programs found to be fiscally effective by evaluations completed in the last 5 years. Each of the programs is addressed in terms of evaluation findings from specific studies. The following eight programs are examined (sample findings in parentheses): (1) WIC-Special Supplemental Food Program for Women,…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Disabilities, Elementary Education, Employment
A Report on the Activities of the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-Ninth Congress, Second Session, together with Dissenting Minority Views.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1986
Activities conducted during the calendar year 1985 by the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families focused on (1) Alcohol Abuse and Its Implications for Families; (2) Families with Disabled Children: Issues for the 80s; (3) Tax Policy: What Do Families Need? (4) Prevention of Alcohol Abuse in American Families; (5) Emerging Trends in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcoholism, Day Care, Disabilities
Infancy to Adolescence: Opportunities for Success. Hearing before the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, First Session.
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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1988
The main purpose of the hearing reported in this document was to expand the knowledge of the Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families concerning early intervention at several critical points during infancy, early childhood and early and later adolescence. Six distinguished researchers in child development gave testimony at the hearings…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Birth, Child Development