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Jesús M. Jornet-Meliá; Carlos Sancho-Álvarez; Purificación Sánchez-Delgado; M. Ángeles Cerezo – Evaluation Review, 2025
The foremost index of caregiving quality is child attachment, as supported by attachment theory. Research supports the relevance of early parenting interventions in improving child outcomes in attachment quality to promote public health because of their long-term effects on mental health and functioning. This study aimed at evaluating the impact…
Descriptors: Infants, Parents, Parent Child Relationship, Community Programs
Irma Arteaga; Andreas de Barros; Alejandro J. Ganimian – Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, 2024
Home-visitation programs have improved child development in low- and middle-income countries, but they are costly to scale due to their reliance on trained workers. We evaluated an inexpensive and low-tech alternative with 2,433 caregivers of children aged 6 to 30 months served by 250 public childcare centers in Uttarakhand, India: automated phone…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developing Nations, Child Rearing, Infants
Faucetta, Kristen; Michalopoulos, Charles; Portilla, Ximena A.; Qiang, Ashley; Lee, Helen; Millenky, Megan; Somers, Marie-Andrée – Administration for Children & Families, 2021
In 2010, Congress authorized the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) Program by enacting section 511 of the Social Security Act, 42 U.S.C. § 711, which also appropriated funding for fiscal years 2010 through 2014. Subsequently enacted laws extended funding for the program through fiscal year 2022. The program is…
Descriptors: Home Visits, Mothers, Infants, Federal Programs
Hsueh, JoAnn; Farrell, Mary E. – Administration for Children & Families, 2012
MDRC is conducting the Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project under a contract with the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). As part of the multisite Enhanced Services for the Hard-to-Employ Demonstration and Evaluation Project, MDRC,…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Employment Services, Infants, Child Development
Vaughn, Lisa M.; Forbes, Janet R.; Howell, Britteny – Infants and Young Children, 2009
The purpose of this study was to conduct a "pilot participatory evaluation" of Every Child Succeeds (ECS), a well-established home visitation program in Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky, using Photovoice methodology. Every Child Succeeds serves first-time, at-risk mothers and their infants. Seven ECS mothers participated in the…
Descriptors: Mothers, Family Programs, Home Visits, Home Programs

Bernal, Gilda Rios – Childhood Education, 1997
Studied the impact of massage three times per week on infants' adjustment to a group care setting. Subjects were infants from at-risk Chilean homes who displayed negative emotional behaviors. Found that massaged infants showed less repetitive crying, more tranquil sleep and muscular relaxation, better social adjustment, and improved feeding…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Rearing, Crying, Emotional Adjustment

Brown, Melanie; Yando, Regina; Rainforth, Maxwell – Early Child Development and Care, 2000
Examined impact of a year-long course to enable new mothers to become more knowledgeable, observant, and responsive to their infants' cues. Found that compared to the non-intervention group, intervention group mothers significantly increased their knowledge of infant development, were more proactive with regard to infant medical care, and their…
Descriptors: Child Health, Child Rearing, Comparative Analysis, Infant Care
White, Burton L.; And Others – 1974
This report describes a pilot project which involved the development and evaluation of an experimental treatment (training program) suitable for a longitudinal study in which the effects of child rearing practices on general competence in young children are being studied. Eleven families participated in the pilot training program which…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Cognitive Development, Home Visits, Infant Behavior
Melhuish, Edward; Belsky, Jay; Anning, Angela; Ball, Mog; Barnes, Jacqueline; Romaniuk, Helena; Leyland, Alastair – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2007
Background: An area-based initiative, Sure Start Local Programmes (SSLPs), was established by the UK government to reduce social exclusion through improving the well-being of children aged 0-3 years and their families in disadvantaged communities; a true community intervention in that all children under four and their families in specified areas…
Descriptors: Community Services, Early Intervention, Child Rearing, Social Isolation
Fowler, William; Kahn, Nasim – 1976
This paper outlines the design and outcomes of an investigation comparing a day care program and home-rearing of infants and preschool children and discusses at length some issues involved in day care research. The study proposed to develop and evaluate a program at a Toronto municipal day care center which accepted infants, and compare the…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Rearing, Community Role, Comparative Analysis
Greenman, Jim; Stonehouse, Anne – 1996
This handbook is intended as a guide to caregivers in programs serving children under the age of three, and as a text for students training to work with infants and toddlers. The book includes material to help program developers and directors set up and manage a child care program. The text stresses the importance of good organization, one-to-one…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Role, Child Caregivers, Child Development
Segal, Marilyn M.; Simco, Edward R. – 1972
Home Start: School for Parents is a parent education program with three major components: a Prototype School for Parents, a pilot television series, and a Manual for Parents on the infancy period. The prototype school is evaluated in terms of its impact on parents and infants, the manual and the television shows in terms of audience response and…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Rearing, Educational Television, Formative Evaluation

Bradley, Robert H.; And Others – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1994
A randomized clinical trial procedure was used at eight program sites to determine the impact of the Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP), a parental education and support and child care program, on the home environment of 985 infants. Differences favoring intervention were apparent at three years, suggesting favorable program impact. (SLD)
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Child Development, Child Rearing, Day Care
Minnesota State Dept. of Children, Families, and Learning, St. Paul. – 1998
The Early Childhood Family Education (ECFE) program is a statewide parent education and support program for all families in Minnesota with children between birth and kindergarten. This document describes the program evaluation procedures and contains forms related to the evaluation. The program evaluation uses a multi-level approach incorporating…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Early Childhood Education, Evaluation Methods, Family Programs

Pierson, Donald E. – Childhood Education, 1974
Because children who enter school with a previously undetected learning handicap often become caught in a cycle of school failure, the Brookline Early Education Project (BEEP) provides comprehensive diagnostic and educational services for 225 families with preschool children. (CS)
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Child Rearing, Early Childhood Education, Educational Diagnosis
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