Home Visitation Programs: Preventing Violence and Promoting Healthy Early Child Development

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by  Lori Roggman, Nancy Cardia (eds.)

Home Visitation Programs
Lori Roggman • Nancy Cardia
Editors
Home Visitation Programs
Preventing Violence and Promoting Healthy
Early Child Development
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Editors
Lori Roggman Nancy Cardia
Dept. Family, Consumer, and Human Center for the Study of Violence
Development University of São Paulo
Utah State University São Paulo
Logan Brazil
Utah
USA
Translation from the Portuguese language edition: Visitação domiciliar: promovendo o
desenvolvimento e prevenindo violência e acidentes by Lori Roggman and Nancy Cardia,
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Preface
Home visitation is a rapidly expanding approach to service delivery for families
of infants and young children at risk for maltreatment or poor developmental sup-
port. There is an emerging global consensus that targeting children in their early
years is key to mitigating the risks associated with early aggression and develop-
mental delay. Home visitation programs are increasingly used in high-risk popula-
tions—typically facing multiple challenges related to poverty, mental illness, or
isolation—to provide individualized services in family homes to help parents pro-
vide appropriate care and developmental support to infants and young children. Re-
search and program descriptions presented in this volume show how home visiting
interventions can help mitigate parents’ stress, guide parents toward more positive
parenting interactions, and help families move out of poverty. Parents have ben-
efited from home visitation programs that have helped them educate and care for
their children and develop age-appropriate strategies for regulating their children’s
aggressive behavior.
The success of several empirically tested home visitation programs has prompt-
ed a recent expansion of funding for home visitation in the USA and in other coun-
tries worldwide. The research literature, however, is still quite limited regarding the
specific strategies and components of home visitation. Several researchers working
in this area were invited to share their evidence-informed expertise at the interna-
tional seminar on Home Visitation Programs: Preventing Violence and Promoting
Healthy Early Child Development, held in 2011, in São Paulo in Brazil. Based on
their presentations, these experts have written the chapters in this volume.
The chapters summarize and report research on home visiting services as a
means of preventing violence and promoting early child development. The chap-
ters guide the planning, implementation, and improvement of home visitation to
provide culturally adaptable individualized infancy and early childhood services
that address the roots of violence and promote optimal development. Part I, which
is a two-part introduction, provides the rationale and challenges for home visitation
in a multicultural international context. Part II includes chapters about research on
home visitation evidence, design, development, evaluation, and quality improve-
ment. Part III includes chapters on the implementation of specific home visitation
programs in different settings around the world.
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Each of the chapters in this book is based on either the implications of a particu-
lar research study (e.g., Korfmacher on training paraprofessional home visitors), a
review of the research literature (e.g., Innocenti on innovation in evidence-based
home visiting programs), or a detailed description of tested home visiting programs
(e.g., Branker and colleagues on a tested home visiting program in the Caribbean).
This collection of expertise in home visitation will be especially useful not only for
program designers, administrators, and policy-makers who design and implement
home visiting programs but also for those in multiple disciplines—social work,
psychology, special education, and early childhood—who are the researchers and
evaluators studying this approach to serve families with infants and young chil-
dren. It is also our hope that that this book on home visitation research and imple-
mentation in the Americas provides a strong research-based foundation for students
pursuing professional careers in which they will strive to reduce community and
family violence by helping vulnerable families support the early development and
resilience of their infants and young children.
Acknowledgments
We are grateful to Alessandra Guedes from the Pan-American Health Organization
(PAHO) for connecting us with the Open Society Institute that provided funding
for the seminar on home visiting held in São Paulo in 2011. At this seminar, the
authors shared their work on home visiting that has evolved into the chapters in this
book. We also thank the São Paulo State Foundation for the Support of Research
(FAPESP), Mercedes Hinton who was then a program officer at the Open Society
Institute, and Alex Butchart from the World Health Organization (WHO) who gave
tremendous support for the home visiting program developed in São Paulo, along
with Joanne Klevens at the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
the Center for the Study on Violence of the University of São Paulo (NEV/USP)
which organized the seminar and the University of São Paulo (USP) which hosted
the seminar. In addition, we thank the families, children, and people working in the
home visiting programs who have taught us all so much about how home visiting
can help families support their children’s health and development in different com-
munities and contexts.
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Contents
Part I Introduction to Home Visiting and its Challenges
1 Introduction: Home Visitation as a Primary Prevention Tool
for Violence ................................................................................................. 3
Alberto Concha-Eastman
2 T he Four Challenges of Home Visitation Programs:
Alcohol and Substance Abuse, Intrafamilial Violence,
and Mental Disorders ................................................................................ 9
Maristela G. Monteiro
Part II Home Visiting Programs and Practices: Research and Evaluation
3 Home Visiting to Enhance Child Development in the
Context of Violence: Possibilities and Limitations .................................. 15
Jon Korfmacher and Lori Roggman
4 Developmental Parenting Home Visiting to Prevent Violence:
Monitoring and Evaluating ....................................................................... 35
Lori Roggman
5 Developing the Home Visiting Workforce ............................................... 63
Nick Wechsler
6 Supporting the Paraprofessional Home Visitor ...................................... 85
Jon Korfmacher
7 Engagement and Retention in Home Visiting Child Abuse
Prevention Programs ................................................................................. 101
William M. McGuigan and Breanna Gassner
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8 A ddressing Psychosocial Risk Factors Among Families
Enrolled in Home Visitation: Issues and Opportunities ....................... 119
S. Darius Tandon
9 Considerations on the Implementation, Innovation, and
Improvement of Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs ................. 135
Mark S. Innocenti
Part III Home Visiting Programs Outside the USA
10 Home Visitation Programs for Early Child Development:
Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean ................................ 157
Nancy Cardia, Renato Alves, Aline Gomes, and Alder Mourão
11 H ome Visiting Interventions to Promote Values That
Support School Success............................................................................ 191
Martha Julia García-Sellers
12 The Roving Caregivers Program: A Caribbean Model ........................ 209
Susan Branker Greene, Clive Murray, and Horis Lynch
13 The Investment in Home Visit Programs in Rural Indigenous
Communities as a Strategy to Grant a Good Start in Life for
Young Children ........................................................................................ 225
J. Leonardo Yánez
Index ................................................................................................................ 231
About the Editors
Lori Roggman (USA): Professor in the Department of Family, Consumer,
and Human Development at Utah State University. She studies parenting and
early intervention in relation to children’s early social, cognitive, and language
development. Dr. Roggman’s career began as a Head Start home visitor and
continued as a trainer and consultant for practitioners in infant/toddler and early
childhood programs. She has conducted research on early parenting and on home
visiting interventions to support parenting in Early Head Start and similar programs,
and she coauthored Developmental Parenting: A Guide for Early Childhood
Practitioners. She codeveloped the PiCCOLO scale using 4500 observations of
parenting interactions to develop a valid, reliable, and easy-to-use measure for both
researchers and practitioners that gauges affection, responsiveness, encouragement,
and teaching. She also codeveloped the Home Visit Rating Scales of home visiting
quality. She has served in several technical advisory groups developing methods
and measures to study services for families of infants, toddlers, and young children.
Nancy Cardia (Brazil): Professor and deputy coordinator of the Center for the
Study of Violence and coordinator of the activities of knowledge transfer. She
represents the center as a Collaborating Centre of the World Health Organization
(WHO) in the issue of prevention of violence at the Department of Prevention of
Violence and injuries. She has organized the series of books Police and Society and
the series Human Rights Education. Dr. Cardia is a member of the editing committee
of the World Report on Violence against Children (UN/UNiCEF), author of a book
about murders of children in Brazil (WHO/PAHO). She compiled the module of
youth violence: Causes and Prevention for the WHO TEACH-ViP and produced,
for the PAHO/GTZ, a study on how to prevent youth violence and promote healthy
development. She is the general coordinator of the pilot deployment of the program
of domestic visitation for adolescent mothers and their children, a program to
promote healthy development and prevent violence, and is also the coordinator of
research on exposure to violence and its impact on attitudes, values, norms regarding
violence, human rights, justice, and democracy.
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