Segregation and integration of the functional connectome in neurodevelopmentally ‘at risk’ children

This case explores two common challenges facing organizations around the world: how to collect the right amount of data, and how to credibly use outcome data collected during program monitoring. Health promoters at Un Kilo de Ayuda (UKA) in Mexico use regularly collected health data on more than 50,000 children to structure their work, track their progress, and identify at-risk children in time to treat health problems. In this case, readers will assess the tradeoffs between actionability and responsibility that UKA faces in determining how much data to collect. They will also examine the challenges of monitoring data on a program’s outcomes instead of outputs, particularly when it comes to asserting a program’s impact on those outcomes. Finally, readers will propose ways to generate credible data on one of the organization’s programs when plans for an impact evaluation fall through.

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Protecting Against Delinquency in Early Adolescence With Nonverbal Intelligence and Neighborhood Social Capital

The Journal of Early Adolescence ◽

10.1177/02724316211020362 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 027243162110203

Author(s):

Glenn D. Walters

Keyword(s):

At Risk ◽

Social Capital ◽

Protective Factors ◽

Conduct Problems ◽

Nonverbal Intelligence ◽

Neighborhood Social Capital ◽

At Risk Children ◽

The Matrix ◽

Childhood Conduct Problems ◽

Matrix Reasoning

The goal of this study was to test nonverbal intelligence and neighborhood social capital as protective factors against future delinquency in early adolescent youth placed at risk by virtue of their involvement in childhood conduct problems. Analyzing longitudinal data from 3,028 youth (1,565 boys, 1,463 girls) in one cohort of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) and 3,682 youth (1,896 boys, 1,786 girls) in a second cohort of the LSAC, nonverbal intelligence, as measured by the Matrix Reasoning subscale of the WISC-IV, displayed a consistent moderating effect on the conduct problems–future delinquency relationship. According to these results, conduct problems were slightly but significantly less likely to lead to delinquency when nonverbal intelligence was high than when it was low or moderate. By shielding at-risk children from future delinquency, protective factors like high nonverbal intelligence may provide a means by which delinquency can be prevented or reduced.

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Reducing asthma hospitalisations in at‐risk children: A systematic review

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health ◽

10.1111/jpc.15666 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Katherine Y H Chen ◽

Leanne Saxon ◽

Colin Robertson ◽

Harriet Hiscock

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

At Risk ◽

At Risk Children

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Transdisciplinary approaches to assessment, early education, and intervention: At risk children∗

Howard Journal of Communications ◽

10.1080/10646178909359700 ◽

1989 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 34-43

Author(s):

Suzanne M. Randolph

Keyword(s):

At Risk ◽

Early Education ◽

At Risk Children

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Looking for and replicating model programs for ‘at risk’ children and families

Children Australia ◽

10.1017/s1035077200005885 ◽

2004 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 31-36

Author(s):

Frank Ainsworth

Keyword(s):

At Risk ◽

Family Preservation ◽

Children And Families ◽

Cultural Traditions ◽

At Risk Children ◽

Systematic Effort ◽

The Us ◽

Program Innovation ◽

New Generation ◽

Model Programs

At the present time there is a need for a new generation of programs to address the needs of ‘at risk’ children and families. This is an issue that is exercising the minds of service planners in both government and non-government community service organisations. This need arises from the fact that many existing programs have yet to be rigorously evaluated and are of questionable effectiveness. This lack of evidence of effectiveness does not sit well in the current climate of accountability. It also runs contrary to the increasingly strident calls for evidence based practice.Many new programs arrive in Australia from the US as this country is often the source of program innovation as illustrated by the importation in the 1980s and 1990s of family preservation and family reunification programs. In the US, promotion of ‘model programs' has taken another step and a systematic effort at program replication is now in evidence. The question is, how might model programs from overseas be successfully replicated in Australia? And what is required, if anything, to replicate these models effectively taking account of our different cultural traditions?

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