The evaluation of Healthy Families Arizona: a multisite home visitation program.
Healthy Families Arizona is a broadly implemented home visitation program aimed at preventing child abuse and neglect, improving child health and development, and promoting positive parent/child interaction. The program began as a pilot in two sites in 1991 and by 2004 had grown to 48 sites located in urban, rural, and tribal regions of the state. The unique administrative structure of the program and collaboration between evaluation and quality assurance have helped overcome many of the problems familiar to home visitation programs. This paper describes how a systematic focus to improve processes and outcomes has positioned the program for a randomized longitudinal study. Key components of the program are described and evaluation results are presented.
Krysik
Judy
J
Arizona State University, AZ, USA. jkrysik@msn.com
LeCroy
Craig W
CW
D001130:Arizona; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000517:prevention & control*; D002657:Child Development; D002662:Child Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003154:Community Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006792:House Calls; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010865:Pilot Projects; D016730:Program Development; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011787:Quality of Health Care