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Title: Home Visiting for At-Risk Families: A Primer on a Major Obama Administration Initiative
Author : Guttmacher Policy Review
Release Date : January 22, 2009
Genre: Family & Relationships,Books,Nonfiction,Professional & Technical,Law,
Pages : * pages
Size : 65 KB

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Nearly 40 years ago, David Olds was working at the Union Square Day Care Center, located in the basement of a church in West Baltimore. The center served low-income children aged 3-5, and although Olds' time there was brief, the center would play a significant role in propelling him toward his life's work. "Inner-city Baltimore in the early 1970s was a rough place," said Olds in an interview for a 2003 anthology of programs funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, "and it was frustrating working with kids who had experienced so much trauma in their lives that what we were able to do for them was too little and too late." So when Olds entered graduate school a few years later, he started thinking about how to reach kids early in their development. "The conclusion I came to was that we needed to start with the mothers, to really focus on helping a mother be a better parent from the time her child was born." Olds came up with the idea of a nurse home visiting program and, in 1978, launched the first test of his model in Elmira, New York. Today, what used to be known as the "Olds Model" and is now known as the Nurse-Family Partnership has blossomed into a full-fledged industry, currently serving more than 17,000 families in 28 states. It has been shown to have numerous long-term benefits for children and families, including reductions in child abuse and neglect and improved birthspacing. Olds' work has also inspired the creation of other home visiting models, using public and private dollars, which have been implemented in hundreds of communities around the nation.