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Session: Enhancing Interactions In A Home Visiting Environment: Lessons From Evidence-Based Practice
4052.0: Tuesday, November 9, 2004: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
Oral
Enhancing Interactions In A Home Visiting Environment: Lessons From Evidence-Based Practice
The papers presented in this session will address several key themes related to the annual APHA conference theme as they related to home visiting programs and services. Specifically, these themes will focus on evidence-based best practices that demonstrate the integration of staff development in home visiting programs; strategies for enhancing interactions between home visiting staff and targeted program populations; innovative strategies for linking staff, families, and the community in home visiting programs; and practice guidelines for addressing the challenges of implementing and sustaining home visiting programs.
Learning Objectives: 1. To discuss evidence-based best practices demonstrating ongoing integration of staff development in home visiting programs, 2. To identify strategies for enhancing interactions between home visiting staff and targeted program populations, 3. To identify innovative strategies for linking staff, families, and the community in home visiting programs, and 4. To learn practice guidelines for addressing the challenges of implementing and sustaining home visiting programs
Organizer(s):Maryam Navaie
Moderator(s):Maryam Navaie-Waliser, DrPH
8:30 AMIntroductory Remarks
8:35 AMInterorganizational collaboration: A key factor for the success of home visiting programs  [ Recorded presentation ]
Lise Goulet, MD, PhD, Danielle D'Amour, RN, PhD, Raynald Pineault, MD, PhD, Jean-François Labadie, BA, Martine Remondin, MSc
8:47 AMWithdrawn -- EZ Breathers: A Partnership to Improve Asthma Management using a combination of Staff Education and Home Visits in a Head Start Population
Judith Taylor-Fishwick, MSc, Cynthia Kelly, MD, Cynthia Collins-Odoms, Janet Hixson, PhD
8:59 AMStory time: Strategies for enhancing and sustaining home visiting staff interactions with fathers  [ Recorded presentation ]
David A. Jones, CSW, Maryam Navaie-Waliser, DrPH, Carmen Ayala, MSEd, Laura Ensler, MSEd
9:11 AMEnhancing interactions between home visitors and non-English speaking populations  [ Recorded presentation ]
Sherry Garrett Hendrickson, PhD, RN
9:23 AMUsing a University-Communty College Partnership to Affect Career Development and Education of CHWs to Work with MCH Populations in Home Settings  [ Recorded presentation ]
Darlene Shearer, DrPH, Sharon Miller, PhD
9:35 AMRole of a logic model in evidence based home visitation  [ Recorded presentation ]
Ruth A O'Brien, PhD, RN
9:47 AMDiscussion
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Maternal and Child Health
Endorsed by:Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Community Health Workers SPIG; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; Public Health Nursing; Social Work
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

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