[Non-professional workers and prevention of ill-treatment in childhood : evaluation of De la Visite project.].
SUMMARY The De La Visite project makes a contribution to a major social challenge : putting in place preventive measures with the long-term goal of diminishing abuse and negligence of children in the home. This project consisted of : 1) having nonprofes-sional workers visit at home new parents living in three economically disadvantaged neighbourhoods on the Island of Montreal ; 2) evaluating this new service via an innovative research method utilizing both an experimental instrument and a qualitative approach, in order to determine whether to propose implementation in the Montreal region. The first part of this article presents the project's premises and goals. The second part gives an overview of the experiment and discusses, for those who offer or wish to offer a similar service, what was learned from a detailed analysis of how the service worked. The third part of the article discusses the effects of the experiment.
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