Family Support and Connection Groups: Long-Term Benefits for Inner-City Children?

Family-support programs employ multiple strategies in an effort to strengthen families and promote the well-being of children. The multidimensionality of these programs—viewed by many experts as a strength—renders them particularly difficult to evaluate. As a result of this complexity, little information is available on the effectiveness of family-support programs. The authors examine outcome research from six family-support programs. Each of the programs was subjected to rigorous program evaluation. The findings from this research are summarized across six dimensions, including program description, intervention strategies, target population, evaluation design, outcome measures, and observed outcomes. Findings from these six programs suggests that there are positive outcomes for young children and their parents. The authors caution that too few studies that involve manualized interventions, and broad assessment over time of randomized groups have been conducted. In these six evaluations, however, program families demonstrated enhanced child, parent, and family functioning. Additionally, these programs appear to improve parent education and produce gains in both immediate and long-term effects on housing and income.

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Teenage Pregnancy and its Support System in Korea

Contemporary Social Issues in East Asian Societies - Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-5031-2.ch008 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 137-163

Author(s):

Naoko Sôma ◽

Jiyoon Park ◽

Sun-Hee Baek ◽

Akemi Morita

Keyword(s):

Family Structure ◽

Family Support ◽

Teenage Pregnancy ◽

Single Parent ◽

Single Parent Family ◽

Daily Lives ◽

Korean Society ◽

Unmarried Mothers ◽

Family Support Act

While family structure continues to diversify in Korean society, society’s rejection of unmarried mothers continues to be a strong obstacle. However, Korean teenage mothers increasingly are deciding to raise their own children and live their daily lives in communities that hold biases and express rejection towards them. At present, the Single-Parent Family Support Act is central to the development of support policies for unmarried mothers, but as pointed out in this study, it is important to implement detailed, individualized, comprehensive, and continual assistance, not limited to those who opt for childrearing but also towards all unmarried mothers who opt for adoption. While raising one’s own child, it is important to provide long-term and continual support and support that helps the recipient foresee how she can step her way up to independence, rather than short-term and sporadic handouts.

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Long-term Effects of Male Reading Tutors, Choice of Text and Computer-based Text on Boys’ Reading Achievement

Language and Literacy ◽

10.20360/g27p42 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 116

Author(s):

Laura Sokal

Keyword(s):

Reading Achievement ◽

Inner City ◽

Struggling Readers ◽

Group Differences ◽

Long Term Effects ◽

Self Perceptions ◽

Reading Tutors ◽

Reading Materials ◽

Computer Based

Sixty-two inner-city Canadian boys identified as struggling readers participated in a 22-week intervention that examined the effects of male reading tutors, computer-based texts, and choice of reading materials. Immediately after the intervention, boys demonstrated between-group changes to reader self-perceptions and gendered views of reading but no between-group differences in achievement. Two years after the intervention’s completion, the boys’ reading comprehension achievement scores were again examined and compared to 62 non-participating boys matched at the time of the study’s onset. Results showed no significant differences between the two groups. Of the boys who participated in the intervention, working with male reading tutors and with computer-based texts did not result in higher achievement than working with female reading tutors or with print-based texts. However, boys who were not given a choice in their reading materials demonstrated reading achievement six months ahead of the boys who were given a choice.

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Poverty, old age and gender in nineteenth-century England: the case of Hertfordshire

Continuity and Change ◽

10.1017/s0268416005005618 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 351-384 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

NIGEL GOOSE

Keyword(s):

Nineteenth Century ◽

Family Support ◽

Elderly Women ◽

The Elderly ◽

Elderly Male ◽

Age And Gender ◽

Local Sources ◽

Short And Long Term ◽

And Gender

This article examines the relative incidence of poverty among the elderly in nineteenth-century Hertfordshire with special reference to gender. Both national and local sources are employed to highlight the particular difficulties experienced by the elderly, male poor under the New Poor Law, and the short and long term problems they faced as a result of seasonal unemployment and an overstocked labour market. For elderly women, the extent to which their poverty was relieved by employment in cottage industry, almshouse accommodation, the continuing receipt of out-relief and a higher incidence of family support are examined to provide an assessment of the manner in which poverty was gendered in the nineteenth century.

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How to Attract Talented Expatriates: The Key Role of Sustainable HRM

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su11195373 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 11 (19) ◽

pp. 5373 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Gahye Hong ◽

Eunmi Kim

Keyword(s):

Emerging Markets ◽

Family Support ◽

Direct Effect ◽

Host Country ◽

Multinational Enterprises ◽

Moderating Effect ◽

Country Image ◽

The Us

Retaining talented expatriates is important for multinational enterprises (MNEs) to maintain knowledge sustainability between their headquarters (HQ) and subsidiaries. However, depending on the host country image of a subsidiary, the attractiveness of the subsidiary may make it challenging to recruit prospective expatriates. Based on the sustainable human resource management (HRM) perspective, this study examines the direct effect of the host country image of a subsidiary and the moderating effect of family support policies on a subsidiary’s attractiveness, by comparing subsidiaries in the US and Vietnam. The results are based on data from 434 Korean potential expatriate applicants and show that the host country image of a subsidiary has a direct effect on the subsidiary’s attractiveness. Specifically, expatriate applicants are less attracted to a Vietnam-based subsidiary than to a US-based one. Further, the positive moderating effect of family support policies on subsidiary attractiveness is more relevant for the Vietnam-based subsidiary. This result suggests that family support policies can be a key strategy for overcoming the less preferred host country images of subsidiaries in emerging markets, thus improving subsidiary sustainability in the long term. The implications of these findings are provided in the context of sustainable HRM and the existing expatriate literature.

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Comparisons Between Patients at Suburban and Inner-City Facilities Treated With Prostate SBRT: Long-Term Parity in Outcomes Despite Measurable Differences in Demographic and Disease Profiles:

International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics ◽

10.1016/j.ijrobp.2020.07.2462 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 108 (3) ◽

pp. e408

Author(s):

S.R. Blacksburg ◽

T.J. Carpenter ◽

H. Marans ◽

G. Demircioglu ◽

M.R. Witten ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Inner City

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Little lifesavers: Can we start first aid education in kindergarten? – A longitudinal cohort study

Health Education Journal ◽

10.1177/0017896918786017 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 77 (8) ◽

pp. 1007-1017 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bálint Bánfai ◽

Attila Pandur ◽

Bence Schiszler ◽

Emese Pék ◽

Balázs Radnai ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Inner City ◽

First Aid ◽

Kindergarten Children ◽

Theoretical Knowledge ◽

Practical Skills ◽

Transfer Of Knowledge ◽

Long Term Effects ◽

Knowledge And Skills ◽

External Defibrillator

Objectives: First aid programmes should include not only the transfer of knowledge and skills but also improve participants’ helping attitudes. The aim of this study was to evalute the immediate and long-term effects of a 3-day first aid programme for kindergarten children. Methods: One hundred and eighteen kindergarten children (5–7 years old) from an inner-city kindergarten located in Pécs, Hungary, were involved in this study between January 2016 and June 2017. Training consisted of three 45-minute sessions involving the transfer of theoretical knowledge and practical skills about first aid. Knowledge, skills and attitudes were assessed by means of a questionnaire developed for the study and through observation. Participants were tested before and immediately after the programme and at 4 and 15 months. Results: The majority of children had no prior knowledge in first aid. Knowledge and skills significantly improved immediately after training and remained significantly higher at 4 and 15 months when compared to baseline – calling the ambulance ( p < 0.01), performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR; p < .01), using an automated external defibrillator (AED; p < .01), handling an unconscious patient ( p < .01) and managing bleeding ( p < .01). Attitudes towards first aid improved significantly after the programme ( p < .01) and remained improved after 4 and 15 months when compared to baseline ( p < .01). Conclusion: Beginning first aid education in kindergarten can be useful. Children cannot become professional bystanders immediately following training, but the programme can offer an introduction of first aid. However, the results decreased substantially after 15 months so regular refreshing training should be recommended.

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