Home visiting
Preliminary Process Evaluation: 4-H Mentoring/Youth and Families with Promise (YFP) Program
Preventing Repeat Incidents of Family Violence: A Randomized Field Test of a Second Responder Program in Redlands, California
Piloting a Comprehensive Caregiver Intervention: A Pathway to Preventing Elder Mistreatment
Community Policing Against Guns: Public Opinion of the Kansas City Gun Experiment
Impact of Sex-Offender Community Notification on Probation/Parole in Wisconsin
Validation of Short Tandem Repeat Multiplex Typing System for Genetic Individualization of Domestic Cat Samples
Evaluating the Impact of Probation and Parole Home Visits
Nurse-Family Partnerships: From Trials to International Replication
David Olds, founder of the Nurse-Family Partnership Program, describes the programs long-term impact on mothers and babies who began participating in the program more than 19 years ago. The Nurse-Family Partnership maternal health program introduces vulnerable first-time parents to maternal and child health nurses. It allows nurses to deliver the support first-time moms need to have a healthy pregnancy, become knowledgeable and responsible parents, and provide their babies and later children and young adults with the best possible start in life.
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Children Exposed to Violence
Panelists will discuss the results of the recent Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's National Survey on Children's Exposure to Violence and findings from a seven-year follow-up study, funded by NIJ, on home visitation in New York. The survey's findings included startling figures: More than 60 percent of the children interviewed were exposed to violence, crime and abuse within the past year, and more than 1 in 10 were injured in an assault.
Homicide in the United States
The 2009 NIJ Conference kicked off with a blue-ribbon panel of leaders with expertise in urban issues as they relate to homicide. These experts will discuss promising approaches that have resulted in reduced violence and community empowerment.