ERIC Number: EJ1125260
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Sep
Pages: 6
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0736-8038
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The Fostering Hope Initiative
Rider, Steven; Winters, Katie; Dean, Joyce; Seymour, Jim
ZERO TO THREE, v35 n1 p37-42 Sep 2014
The Fostering Hope Initiative is a neighborhood-based Collective Impact initiative that promotes optimum child and youth development by supporting vulnerable families, encouraging connections between neighbors, strengthening systems to ensure collective impact, and advocating for family-friendly public policy. This article describes the intervention and discusses the results of the project evaluation. The partnership's current and planned activities and priorities are also addressed, including development of a new measure to assess protective factors among families at risk for child maltreatment.
Descriptors: Intervention, Child Development, Family Programs, Social Support Groups, Neighborhoods, Public Policy, Program Effectiveness, Program Evaluation, At Risk Persons, Poverty, Resilience (Psychology), Questionnaires, Home Visits, Community Programs, Child Rearing, Stress Variables, Surveys, Statistical Analysis, Focus Groups
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Oregon
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Parenting Stress Index
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