PPN Newsletter April 2010
Listed below are recent updates to the Promising Practices Network on Children, Families and Communities website (http://www.promisingpractices.net).
WHAT'S NEW
New Hope Project improved many parent and child outcomes in the short term but had few long-term effects
From 1994 to 1998 the New Hope Project offered low-income households in Milwaukee the opportunity to use a comprehensive set of integrated program services designed to increase income and improve access to full-time employment. Participants were randomly assigned to treatment and control groups, and the program effects were measured by an outside evaluation team two, five and eight years after randomization. Significant differences in parents' income and employment and children's academic performance and psycho-social behavior were found between treatment and control groups two and five years after randomization. However, several of these positive impacts faded after the project ended and the supports provided by the project were no longer available. Long-term effects were found for improvements in academic performance among younger children and parental ratings of children's positive social behavior. Additionally, the study found some evidence of lasting effects on poverty reduction and higher wages among the project's participants.
Read PPN's new program summary of the New Hope Project
Time is running out! Child policy experts answer your questions about Head Start
Don't miss your chance to ask three leading experts your questions about Head Start's effectiveness. The Head Start program is perhaps the most well-known early childhood program in the United States. Despite hundreds of research studies conducted on the Head Start program over nearly half a century, controversy remains regarding the effectiveness of Head Start in achieving its multidimensional goal of promoting school readiness by providing educational, health, nutritional, social and other services to enrolled children and families. Be sure to visit the Expert Perspectives page to submit your question to the experts and to read the related information PPN has to offer on this topic.
Visit the Head Start experts page to submit your question and read more about Head Start
PPN launches new Partner Page for Hands on Mississippi
PPN is pleased to welcome Hands on Mississippi as its newest Network member. Hands on Mississippi's mission is to inspire, equip, and mobilize people to address critical needs of the Mississippi community through volunteerism. In partnership with the Corporation for National and Community Service, the Mississippi Commission on Volunteer Service, nonprofit agencies, and local community members and business partners, Hands On Mississippi supports the volunteer-driven recovery of the Gulf Coast after Hurricane Katrina and actively rebuilds a more civically engaged community. Visit PPN's new partner page for Hands On Mississippi to learn more about the issues of high priority to this organization and its constituents.
See the Hands on Mississippi page
See all Partner PagesMore about PPN Network Members
New PPN Issue Brief available — Head Start: What Do We Know?
Head Start is one of the longest-running and most well-known early childhood programs in the U.S. Over several decades, numerous researchers have attempted to study the impact of Head Start and identify the components of the program that are critical to accomplishing the program's intended outcomes. Despite the many studies conducted on the Head Start Program, questions remain about the true effectiveness of the program. The latest Issue Brief from PPN seeks to illuminate for policymakers and others the reasons why many consider the issue of Head Start's effectiveness to be as of yet unresolved.
Read the Head Start issue brief
RESEARCH IN BRIEF
Listed below are research summaries that have been added to the PPN site this month.
See all in this area » Healthy and Safe Children
Autism Spectrum Disorders in Extremely Preterm Children
— Apr. 2010
Journal abstract at Journal of Pediatrics website
The Influence of the VERB Campaign on Children's Physical Activity in 2002 to 2006
— Apr. 2010
A Meta-Analysis of Obesity Interventions Among U.S. Minority Children
— Apr. 2010
The Moderating Effects of Parenting Styles on African-American and Caucasian Children's Suicidal Behaviors
— Apr. 2010
A Preliminary Analysis of the Receipt of Mental Health Services Consistent With National Standards Among Children in the Child Welfare System
— Apr. 2010
Risk and Protective Factors for Psychological Adjustment Among Low-Income, African American Children
— Apr. 2010
Sexual Orientation and Bullying Among Adolescents in the Growing Up Today Study
— Apr. 2010
Newborn Hearing Screening and Follow-up: Are Children Receiving Recommended Services?
— Mar/Apr. 2010
Article at Public Health Reports website
Alliance School Beverage Guidelines Final Progress Report
— Mar. 2010
Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Children's Health Care Quality
— Mar. 2010
Highlights of the 2008 National Youth Gang Survey
— Mar. 2010
Identifying Experiences of Physical and Psychological Violence in Childhood that Jeopardize Mental Health in Adulthood
— Mar. 2010
Prevalence of Extreme Obesity in a Multiethnic Cohort of Children and Adolescents
— Mar. 2010
Significant Multiple Risk Behaviors Among U.S. High School Students
— Mar. 2010
What Works for the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity Among Children: Lessons from Experimental Evaluations of Programs and Interventions
— Mar. 2010
The Effects of Child Abuse and Exposure to Domestic Violence on Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior Problems
— Jan. 2010
See all in this area » Children Succeeding in School
Autism Spectrum Disorders in Extremely Preterm Children
— Apr. 2010
Risk and Protective Factors for Psychological Adjustment Among Low-Income, African American Children
— Apr. 2010
How Many Schools Have Not Made Adequate Yearly Progress Under the No Child Left Behind Act?
— Mar. 2010
The Nation's Report Card: Reading 2009
— Mar. 2010
Significant Multiple Risk Behaviors Among U.S. High School Students
— Mar. 2010
State Test Score Trends Through 2007-08, Part 5: Are There Differences in Achievement Between Boys and Girls?
— Mar. 2010
See all in this area » Strong Families
Estimating the Potential Effects of Poverty Reduction Policies
— Mar. 2010
Fewer Eligible Families Have Received Cash Assistance Since the 1990s, and the Recession's Impact on Caseloads Varies by State
— Mar. 2010
Using the American Community Survey to Create a National Academy of Sciences-Style Poverty Measure: Work by the New York City Center for Economic Opportunity
— Mar. 2010
ABOUT OUR SUPPORTERS
The Promising Practices Network appreciates the generosity of our supporting organizations:
Annie E. Casey Foundation
The California Wellness Foundation
The Colorado Trust
The Community Foundation of Shreveport-Bossier
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Family Communications, Inc. (FCI)
Family and Community Trust
Georgia Family Connection Partnership
Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families (GCYF)
Hands On Mississippi
Kansas Action for Children
KidsOhio.org
New York State Office of Children & Family Services
RAND Corporation
The Spencer Foundation
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