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Building Bridges: Linking Practice and Research on Home Visitation

Quarterly newsletter provided by LeCroy & Milligan Associates Inc. L&M is a Tucson-based research, evaluation and training firm with the goal to provide useful evaluation information to help organizations become more responsive and effective in delivering services. The Building Bridges newsletter comes out quarterly with its premiere issue being released in May 2005.

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2008:

SUMMER - Family Stress Management (Part 2)

What's Inside:

Minimizing Financial Stress (page 1)
Managing Common Stressors (page 4)
Helping Families and Children through the Loss of a Loved One (page 6)

SPRING - Family Stress Management (Part 1)

What's Inside:

Effects of Stress on the Family (page 1)
Family Stress Models (page 3)
Coping Techniques and Tips for Stress Management (page 4)
Creative Perspectives: Another Day Breathing (page 6)

WINTER - Helping Families Access Community Resources

What's Inside:

Encouraging Family Participation (page 1)
Guidelines for Increasing Resource Utilization (page 3)
Resource Utilization: What Families Have to Say (page 6)

2007:

FALL - Family Violence

What's Inside:

Effective Domestic Violence Screening (page 1)
Chains of Violence (page 4)
Exposure to Domestic Violence (page 5)
Domestic Violence in the Native American Population (page 6)

SUMMER - Quality Child Care & Out-of-School Time Programs

What's Inside:

Finding Quality Child Care (page 1)
Childcare & Early Childhood Education Program Policy (page 4)
Quality After School Programs (page 5)
Never Shake a Baby (page 6)

SPRING - Working with Teen Mothers

What's Inside:

Working Effectively with Teenagers (page 1)
Components of Effective Programs (page 3)
Welform Reform and Teen Mothers (page 4)
Perspectives on Education (page 6)

WINTER - Developmental Issues for Young Children

What's Inside:

Emotion Coaching: What is the Best Way to Respond to a Child's Negative Emotions (page 1)
Understanding Childhood Aggression (page 3)
Bringing Home a New Baby (page 4)
Helping Parents & Child Cope with Crisis (page 6)
Curbing Aggression: What Parents Can Do (page 7)

2006:

FALL - Family Engagement & Retention

What's Inside:

Engaging & Retaining Participants in the Healthy Families Program (page 1)
Research on Participant Attrition in Home Visitation (page 3)
Improving Parent Recruitment and Retention (page 4)
Worker Retention is Key in Family Retention (page 6)
The Healthy Families Longitudinal Study (page 7)

SUMMER - School Readiness

What's Inside:

Understanding the Everyday Experiences of Children's Language Acquisition (page 1)
Can Home Visitation Programs Enhance School Readiness (page 3)
Kindergarten Readiness Checklist (page 4)
An Interview with Karen Ortiz (page 6)
School Readiness: Ready, Set, Go (page 7)

SPRING - Fatherhood

What's Inside:

Fathers, Children, and Child Development (page 1)
Tips for Promoting Father Involvement (page 3)
Promoting Child Involvement Among Non-Resident Fathers (page 4)
Adolescent Parenting Programs (page 5)
Questions for Assessing Your Focus on Father Engagement (page 6)

2005:

FALL - Maternal and Child Health

What's Inside:

Healthier Babies, Healthier Moms: Spacing Birth is the Key (page 1)
Immunization Safety: Weighing the Risks and the Benefits (page 3)
The Magic of Touch (page 4)
Home Visits Can Substantially Reduce Childhood Injury (page 5)
Health Benefits of Home Visitation (page 6)

SPRING - Premier Issue - Discipline and Child Maltreatment

What's Inside:

The Science Behind the Supernanny (page 1)
How Healthy Families Can Help Prevent Behavior Problems in Children (page 3)
Can Home Visitation Influence Children's Behavior? (page 4)
New Evidence for the Benefits of Never Spanking (page 5)

WINTER - Post Partum Depression and Clinical Depression

What's Inside:

Fathers and Depression (page 1)

Postpartum Depression: Brooke Shields Sends a Message to Us All (page 3)

Women and Depression (page 4)

Improving Practice: Healthy Families Intervention with Depression (page 5)
Screening for Depression (page 6)
The Effect of Depression on Infants (page 7)