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Nurse-Family Partnership Celebrates 10 Years of Replication in Pennsylvania!
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| Nurse-Family Partnership and P/PV celebrated a decade of home-visiting programs for low-income Pennsylvania families at an event in Harrisburg. P/PV President Nadya K. Shmavonian spoke at the event, along with Department of Public Welfare Secretary Harriet Dichter and Former Pennsylvania First Lady Michele Ridge (pictured above with a group of nurses). Nurse-Family Partnership home visitors currently serve more than 3,000 families a day in 40 of the state's 67 counties. To see more photos of the event, visit P/PV's Facebook page. |
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Growing What Works: Lessons Learned from Pennsylvania's Nurse-Family Partnership Initiative
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by Jennifer Collins Stavrakos and Geri Summerville with Laura E. Johnson
September 2009, 42 pages
Using the Pennsylvania Nurse-Family Partnership experience as a case study, this report provides key lessons for policymakers and funders interested in bringing proven models to a statewide scale. Growing What Works also details best practices for selecting implementing agencies; fostering a sense of community among geographically dispersed sites; monitoring program results to promote quality; and engaging local administrators and site leaders.
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Early Outcomes for Programs and Families in Children's Futures
Children's Futures is a multiyear community-change initiative designed to improve the well-being of children in Trenton, NJ. This report examines programmatic achievements and outcomes for the city's families at the end of the initiative's first five years and addresses issues related to cost, partnership development and future sustainability.
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Walking the Plain Talk: A Guide for Trainers
P/PV produced this "Training of Trainers" manual for The Annie E. Casey Foundation to help prepare "Walkers and Talkers" and "Home Health Parties" to implement the Plain Talk model. Plain Talk is a neighborhood-based program designed to improve adults' communication with teens about responsible sexual behavior.
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Adult Communication and Teen Sex: Changing a Community
Plain Talk was an innovative program that attempted to help sexually active youth protect themselves from pregnancy and disease through increased communication with adults. This report documents the experiences of these five sites in trying to implement this initiative.
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