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Children’s tooth decay is a “major concern” for 84% of Head Start health managers, according to this new study. Explore how programs address this challenge through these research questions:
What is the perceived burden of tooth decay on Head Start/Early Head Start programs?
What health programming (e.g., services, activities, education) and policies are currently in place to address tooth decay...
This brief focuses on perceptions of childhood overweight and obesity on Head Start/Early Head Start programs, as well as the use of programming, staffing models, training, and other resources to address the issue. The brief addresses the following research questions:
What is the perceived burden of overweight and obesity on Head Start/Early Head Start programs?
What health programming (e.g., services, activities, education) and policies are currently in place to address overweight and obesity?..
This brief focuses on the mental health, behavioral health, and social and emotional well-being issues that Head Start/Early Head Start programs face, as well as staffing, programming, and additional resources used to address these needs. The brief addresses the following research questions:
What mental health, behavioral health, and social and emotional well-being issues do Head Start/Early Head Start programs face?
What are the staffing models used to address this domain of health? How does staff training address mental health, behavioral health, and social and emotional well-being?..
This report provides a breakdown of findings from the Head Start Health Manager Descriptive Study for each of the Head Start regions I-XII. The report describes study methods and findings on key topics (e.g., health manager characteristics, Head Start Health Services Advisory Committee). The findings include the overall response for Head Start/Early Head Start and each region individually...
This report reviews empirical and theoretical work and expert input to summarize research and theory about any associations between healthy relationship program participation and experiences of intimate partner violence (IPV) and teen dating violence (TDV)...
This paper summarizes the available evidence in three key areas related to recognizing and addressing intimate partner violence/teen dating violence in healthy relationship programs...
This brief, developed for organizations implementing healthy relationship programming, provides a summary of research/theory on how healthy relationship program participation could affect intimate partner violence and teen dating violence. Specifically, the brief describes how those effects might occur, and how they might differ for different groups of adults and youth...
Based on qualitative interviews with a group of responsible fatherhood program participants, this brief focuses on fathers’ perspectives on co-parenting, specifically:
The nature of their co-parenting relationship;
Changes in their co-parenting relationships; and
Efforts they made to obtain formal agreements for visitation, custody, or parenting time.
Each interviewee participated in one of these four responsible fatherhood programs...