20. Family support and home visiting: Understanding communication, “good practice” and interactional skills

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stef Slembrouck ◽  
Christopher Hall
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Home Visiting ◽  
Good Practice

scholarly journals Evaluating needs-based home visiting support: Can administrative data help?

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nell Warner
Keyword(s):  
Linear Regression ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Regression Models ◽  
Home Visiting ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Experimental Designs ◽  
Outcome Variable ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Linear Regression Models

Objective Home visiting is a form of family support which can help families with different problems in different ways. Previous evaluations have utilised either experimental or qualitative designs. However, the needs-based nature of support presents a challenge for evaluation using experimental designs. Main Aim This paper illustrates the unique contribution that administrative data can make to understanding these problems and how it can be used to explore what support works for families in different situations. Methods The analysis of administrative data from one UK home visiting organisation, Home-Start, is presented. Exploratory analysis considers measures describing how well parents are coping with a range of issues and how this changes over the course of support. This highlights problems with evaluation because of the variety of issues Home-Start is supporting parents to cope with and the fact that the duration of support is needs-based. Methodological solutions are proposed for these problems using the administrative data. These include using subgroups to study families with different problems and considering the rate at which improvements occur as an outcome variable. Linear regression models are presented to demonstrate how these methods can identify aspects of support related to improvements in parental self-esteem. Results The methods used are able to demonstrate that the frequency of support and who the support is provided by are related to faster improvements in parental self-esteem. The analysis of sub-groups in the data shows that the frequency of support is important for all parents, but there are differences between parents in different situations, depending on whether volunteers or paid staff provide support. Conclusion The analysis of administrative data is able to make a unique contribution to the evaluation of needs-based home visiting support.

scholarly journals Frontline Response to High Impact Domestic Violence in Hungary

2021 ◽  
pp. 201-214
Author(s):  
Gábor Héra ◽  
Dóra Szegő
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
Family Support ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Child Protection ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
National Crisis ◽  
Physical Injuries ◽  
Telephone Helpline ◽  
The Family

The first part of the chapter describes the legalisation of domestic violence. The Criminal Code criminalises domestic violence, including several areas of domestic violence such as emotional, physical, economic, and sexual violence. Two main limitations are that the Criminal Code does not sanction verbal abuse, and the police are obliged to file a criminal complaint ex officio only if domestic violence involves serious physical injuries. In all other cases, it is upon the request of the victim to file a criminal complaint against the offender. The second part of the chapter describes the roles of the different front-line agencies in responding to domestic violence; the police, the Child Protection Perceiving and Reporting System, the Guardianship office, the family support and child welfare services and the different NGO's that operate crisis management and different helplines. The next part of the chapter introduces the work of the National Crisis Telephone Helpline as a good practice of cooperation between stakeholders that helps victims of domestic violence and human trafficking through a free of charge telephone line. The last part shows the main challenges and shortcomings characterising the handling of domestic violence in Hungary.

Ports in a Storm: A Postnatal Depression Rural Support Services Project

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dee Basinski
Keyword(s):  
Postnatal Depression ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Home Visiting ◽  
Community Education ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Inadequate Knowledge ◽  
Effective System ◽  
Information Brochure

This nine-month action-research project was conducted in 1996 by NEWomen Goulburn North-Eastern Women's Health Service and aimed to improve the system of services and support for women suffering postnatal depression (PND) in the Wangaratta district. The challenge was to influence existing mainstream and community service providers to bring about an effective system of service provision. The project included research, consultation and community education. Major findings were that PND was under-detected in some instances through inadequate knowledge and detection skills. Some women with PND experienced difficulty in receiving suitable services in a co-ordinated and timely way. Important outcomes were the review of the existing service system and consequent improvements. Working relations, co-operation and networking between various services were enhanced, as through the Project, providers supported: establishing a PND self-help group; distributing a PND information brochure; training recovered women to provide volunteer home-visiting support to women experiencing depression; trialing a 'screening' and co-ordinated referral approach and identifying good practice models. Another significant outcome was the opportunity for personal development as women participated in the project as interviewees, media commentators, support group members and home-visiting trainees. This paper highlights developments and ongoing challenges since the 1996 project.

Family Support in Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) Systems

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-21
Author(s):  
Patti Martin ◽  
Nannette Nicholson ◽  
Charia Hall
Keyword(s):  
Family Support ◽  
Hard Of Hearing ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Federal Law ◽  
Think Tank ◽  
Learning Collaborative ◽  
Technological Advances ◽  
Improved Outcomes ◽  
Program Components

Family support has evolved from a buzzword of the 1990s to a concept founded in theory, mandated by federal law, valued across disciplines, and espoused by both parents and professionals. This emphasis on family-centered practices for families of young children with disabilities, coupled with federal policy initiatives and technological advances, served as the impetus for the development of Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) programs (Nicholson & Martin, in press). White, Forsman, Eichwald, and Muñoz (2010) provide an excellent review of the evolution of EHDI systems, which include family support as one of their 9 components. The National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management (NCHAM), the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, and the Center for Disease Control Centers cosponsored the first National EHDI Conference. This conference brought stakeholders including parents, practitioners, and researchers from diverse backgrounds together to form a learning collaborative (Forsman, 2002). Attendees represented a variety of state, national, and/or federal agencies and organizations. This forum focused effort on the development of EHDI programs infused with translating research into practices and policy. When NCHAM, recognizing the critical role of family support in the improvement of outcomes for both children and families, created a think tank to investigate the concept of a conference centered on support for families of children who are deaf or hard of hearing in 2005, the “Investing in Family Support” (IFSC) conference was born. This conference was specifically designed to facilitate and enhance EHDI efforts within the family support arena. From this venue, a model of family support was conceptualized and has served as the cornerstone of the IFSC annual conference since 2006. Designed to be a functional framework, the IFSC model delineates where and how families find support. In this article, we will promote and encourage continued efforts towards defining operational measures and program components to ultimately quantify success as it relates to improved outcomes for these children and their families. The authors view this opportunity to revisit the theoretical underpinnings of family support, the emerging research in this area, and the basics of the IFSC Model of Family Support as a call to action. We challenge professionals who work with children identified as deaf or hard of hearing to move family support from conceptualization to practices that are grounded in evidence and ever mindful of the unique and dynamic nature of individual families.

Redesigning Introduction to Communication Disorders

2010 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Wm. Folkins
Keyword(s):  
Student Learning ◽  
Student Evaluation ◽  
Good Practice ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Team Experience ◽  
Team Activity ◽  
Class Period ◽  
Written Assignments ◽  
Principles Of Good Practice ◽  
Overall Effectiveness

A class of 58 students in Introduction to Communication Disorders was divided into eight teams of approximately seven students each. The teams sat together all semester and participated in at least one team activity (team discussions, in-class written assignments, and team quizzes) in every class period. Teams also were used for taking roll and reviewing for examinations. There was no decline in student evaluation of the overall effectiveness of the course or in examination scores when compared to when this course was taught with half the number of students and no teams. Students evaluated the team experience highly and appeared to enjoy competition among teams. Using teams was successful in creating experiences that foster student learning as embodied in Chickering and Gameson’s principles of good practice.

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