The Healthy Families America Initiative: Integrating Research, Theory and Practice

ISBN-13: 9780789036810 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 246 str.

Joseph Galano

Opis

The Healthy Families America(R) Initiative: Integrating Research, Theory and Practice examines the home visitation program aimed at preventing child abuse. This detailed study of the HFA is a guide for future prevention efforts covering the history, challenges, benefits, and best practices in the field.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Challenges of Integrating Research into Practice (Joseph Galano). Healthy Families America®: Ruminations on Implementing a Home Visitation Program to Prevent Child Maltreatment (John K. Holton and Kathryn Harding). Healthy Families America® Research Practice Network: A Unique Partnership to Integrate Prevention Science and Practice (Joseph Galano and Cynthia J. Schellenbach). Healthy Families America® State Systems Development: An Emerging Practice to Ensure Program Growth and Sustainability (Lori Friedman and Lisa Schreiber). Development and Implementation of a Quality Assurance Infrastructure in a Multisite Home Visitation Program in Ohio and Kentucky (Robert T. Ammerman et al.). The Evaluation of Healthy Families Arizona: A Multisite Home Visitation Program (Judy Krysik and Craig W. LeCroy). The Promise of Primary Prevention Home Visiting Programs: A Review of Potential Outcomes (Beth S. Russell, Preston A. Britner, and Jennifer L. Woolard). Healthy Families America® Effectiveness: A Comprehensive Review of Outcomes (Kathryn Harding et al.). The Role of Community in Facilitating Service Utilization (Deborah Daro et al.). Potential Lessons from Public Health and Health Promotion for the Prevention of Child Abuse (Joanne B. Martin, Lawrence W. Green, and Andrea Carlson Gielen). Index. Reference Notes.

O autorze

Joseph Galano, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the College of William and Mary and a core faculty member in the Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology. Dr. Galano has worked at the local, state, and national levels to prevent child abuse and neglect. Since 1995, he has worked with Prevent Child Abuse Virginia to develop Virginia's statewide child abuse prevention initiative, Healthy Families Virginia. He was a member of the steering committee that developed the Blue Ribbon Plan to Prevent Child Abuse and Neglect in Virginia and currently serves on Healthy Families Virginia's Advisory Council. Since 1992 he has been a member of the Healthy Families America (HFA) Research Practice Network and is a member of the HFA State Leaders Network. In recognition of his career accomplishments, the American Psychological Association honored him with the 1996 Distinguished Contribution to Practice in Community Psychology award.