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Schwartz, Elizabeth L.; Shaw, Shreya; Bolkovac, Emma; Shankar, Divya; Tarun, Shwetabh; Forrestal, Claire; Hayes, William D.; Raiz, Lisa; Brogan-Habash, Diane L. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2023
Columbus, the largest city in Ohio, is an epicenter for several overlapping health disparities, including poverty, food insecurity, and infant mortality. A group of volunteer undergraduate students at The Ohio State University sought to reduce some of these disparities through the creation of ENCompass: Empowering Neighborhoods of Columbus. This…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Program Implementation, Needs, Screening Tests
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Mersky, Joshua P.; Janczewski, Colleen E.; Plummer Lee, ChienTi; Gilbert, Ross M.; McAtee, Cali; Yasin, Tajammal – Health Education & Behavior, 2021
Background: Research suggests that home visiting interventions can promote breastfeeding initiation, though their effects on breastfeeding continuation are unclear. No known studies have assessed the impact of home visiting on bedsharing. Aims: To test the effects of home visiting on breastfeeding and bedsharing in a low-income, urban sample in…
Descriptors: Nutrition, Infants, Comparative Analysis, Parent Child Relationship
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Portman, Robert M.; Levy, Andrew R.; Allen, Sarah F.; Fairclough, Stuart J. – Health Education Journal, 2023
Objective: There is recent evidence that exercise referral schemes (ERSs) are beginning to permit self-referral access. Notwithstanding this, to date it is unknown whether key referral characteristics, such as age, gender and socioeconomic status are associated with a greater likelihood of self-referring to an ERS, and whether self-referral…
Descriptors: Referral, Exercise, Health Behavior, Gender Differences
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Zuckerman, Katharine E.; Chavez, Alison E.; Wilson, Laura; Unger, Katie; Reuland, Colleen; Ramsey, Katrina; King, Margaret; Scholz, Julie; Fombonne, Eric – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2021
Improving autism spectrum disorder screening and referral in primary care may reduce autism spectrum disorder disparities for Latino children. The REAL-START intervention aimed to increase primary care provider adherence to autism spectrum disorder and developmental screening guidelines, and to increase Early Intervention referral for children at…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Screening Tests, Comparative Analysis
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Hako, Anna Niitembu; Bojuwoye, Olaniyi – European Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
This is an interpretive account of principals, teacher-counsellors, parents and learners' experiences and perceptions on school counselling services in Ohangwena region of Namibia. The study focused on what the stakeholders consider to be the characteristics of the Namibian school counselling programme. The study used a qualitative research…
Descriptors: School Counseling, Counseling Services, Foreign Countries, Program Descriptions
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Ferguson, Kristin M.; Ziemer, Kelly L.; Celada, M.; Oviedo, Sofia; Ansbrow, Jacqueline – Research on Social Work Practice, 2018
Purpose: The purpose of this pilot study was to evaluate the influence of a community-based, service-coordination and delivery intervention (CONNECT Program) on urban, minority parents' human capital, financial capital, community social capital, and service utilization. Method: This study used a pre-posttest single group design and mixed methods…
Descriptors: Pilot Projects, Social Capital, Human Capital, Workshops
Kendziora, Kimberly; Mack, Amy R.; Jones, Wehmah; Pate, William E., II – Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development, US Department of Education, 2018
Schools can work toward achieving safe, positive environments by integrating a behavioral support framework for students with a systematic approach to identifying students in need of mental health services. This study of the U.S. Department of Education's School Climate Transformation Grant (SCTG) program examined how participating states and…
Descriptors: School Safety, Educational Environment, Grants, Mental Health
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Kirby, Kimberly C.; Versek, Brian; Kerwin, MaryLouise E.; Meyers, Kathleen; Benishek, Lois A.; Bresani, Elena; Washio, Yukiko; Arria, Amelia; Meyers, Robert J. – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2015
We describe a project focused on training parents to facilitate their treatment-resistant adolescent's treatment entry and to manage their child after entry into community-based treatment. Controlled studies show that Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) is a unilateral treatment that fosters treatment entry of adults; however,…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Substance Abuse, Adolescents, Outcomes of Treatment
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Yeh, Christine Jean; Tang, Phuong – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2019
The authors present a culturally responsive college access group to increase educational opportunity for historically targeted high school students. The program was designed for first generation high school students who self-report as having no plans for after high school. The program highlights the need for inter-disciplinary collaboration with…
Descriptors: Democracy, Equal Education, Access to Education, Higher Education
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Dean, Bonnie B.; Kindermann, Sylvia L.; Carson, Tabetha; Gavin, Jan; Frerking, Melissa; Bergren, Martha Dewey – Journal of School Nursing, 2014
Many states in the United States have mandated school health screenings for early identification and referral to professional services for a set of health conditions. Healthe Kids, a community-based program, began offering school-based health screenings to Missouri elementary schools in March 2007. The purpose of the article is to provide a…
Descriptors: Health Services, Elementary School Students, Program Descriptions, School Nurses
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den Hartog, Franciska; Wagemakers, Annemarie; Vaandrager, Lenneke; van Dijk, Marieke; Koelen, Maria A. – Health Education Journal, 2014
Objective: BeweegKuur (Exercise Therapy) is a Dutch lifestyle programme in which participants are referred by a general practitioner (GP) to a lifestyle advisor. To support participants, regional and local alliances are established. The present study explored the successes and challenges associated with collaboration processes in local BeweegKuur…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Life Style, Interviews, Focus Groups
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Secor-Turner, Molly; Randall, Brandy A.; Christensen, Katie; Jacobson, Amy; Loyola Meléndez, Migdalia – Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning, 2017
Although comprehensive sexuality education programmes have the potential to improve the sexual health and well-being of young people, many socially conservative rural states in the USA have laws and policies restricting school-based comprehensive sexuality education and supporting abstinence-only education. This paper describes the process of…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Sexuality, Sex Education, School Community Relationship
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Hernandez-Melis, Claudia; Fenning, Pamela; Lawrence, Elizabeth – Preventing School Failure, 2016
The purpose of the current study was to assess the effects of an alternative to suspension intervention on students' subsequent major referrals. The intervention included activities designed to teach social coping strategies as well as mediation to resolve interpersonal conflicts. The intervention was implemented in a therapeutic high school, and…
Descriptors: Suspension, Intervention, High School Students, Behavior Problems
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Summerskill, Gail; Jones, Cathy – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2013
Johnson C. Smith University, a historically black university in North Carolina, created a Case Manager Program for their Freshman Academy Learning Community. This case study describes how the program was designed, implemented, and assessed. Case Managers are neither faculty nor student affairs professionals yet they are an integral part of the…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Communities of Practice, Mentors, Academic Persistence
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Gregory, Anne; Hafen, Christopher A.; Ruzek, Erik; Mikami, Amori Yee; Allen, Joseph P.; Pianta, Robert C. – School Psychology Review, 2016
Black students are issued school discipline sanctions at rates higher than members of other racial and ethnic groups, underscoring the need for professional development that addresses this gap. In 86 secondary school classrooms, a randomized controlled trial examined the effects of a 2-year teacher-coaching program, My Teaching Partner Secondary…
Descriptors: Racial Differences, Achievement Gap, Academic Achievement, African American Students
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