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Parenting support

Home Visiting and Child Welfare Involvement: A Matched Comparison Group Study

See the latest in our ongoing work to build the evidence base around PN3 policies.

How One Funder Invests in Policy & Systems Change for Family Mental Health

This is a guest post by Kim Gilsdorf, a Program Officer for the Perigee Fund, a national philanthropy committed to prenatal-to-age-3 mental health.  I work with organizations that support the mental health of families every

Receiving Concrete Support Linked to Home Visiting Program Engagement

Evaluating Texas’s in-kind and monetary assistance during COVID-19 To promote nurturing and responsive parent-child relationships and healthy home environments, states can offer home visiting programs to expectant and new parents with young children. During the

Emergent Literacy Coaching Programs

Emergent Literacy Coaching positively impacts these strategy goals: Nurturing and Responsive Child-Parent Relationships SUMMARY Emergent Literacy Coaching Programs are an effective state policy to impact: Emergent literacy coaching programs promote nurturing and responsive child-parent relationships

Shared Book Reading Programs

Shared Book Reading positively impacts these strategy goals: Nurturing and Responsive Child-Parent Relationships Optimal Child Health and Development SUMMARY Shared Book Reading Programs are an effective state policy to impact: Shared book reading programs provide

Ebenezer Scrooge? Why Ohio is ‘Beyond Stingy’ When it Comes to Helping Families

Nobody wants to be last.       But Ohio is indeed at or very near the bottom on important rankings of how we treat children and working families. When are we going to own that? When

Do Americans Still Love Marriage?

The institution of marriage is increasingly a polarizing topic, though it remains popular and the majority of Americans aspire to it if they haven’t already wed. But the popularity of “I dos” is slipping, according

Hefty cigarette taxes cut smoking big-time. But there’s a downside for children

California voters eked out a win for children more than two decades ago based on a “sin tax.” Proposition 10 slapped cigarettes with a hefty surcharge to pressure smokers to give up their habit and

State Policy Lever Checklist: Access to Perinatal Health Insurance

Expanding Medicaid coverage to most adults with incomes up to at least 138% of the federal poverty level increases families’ access to needed care and services, reduces financial burdens associated with health care costs, leads

State-Level Outcomes

CHILD AND FAMILY OUTCOMES Based on the science of the developing child, we have identified 20 outcome measures to track the overall health and wellbeing of infants and toddlers and their parents. Each outcome is