2004 Campus-Community Partnerships
Initial Status, Type of Early Care and Family Outcome
| Awardee: | Prof. Christoph Heinicke Child and Adolescent Psychiatry |
| Partner: | Westside Family Health Clinic, Venice Family
Clinic and Infant Support Program |
Abstract:
This project continues and strengthens the collaboration between the UCLA Family Development Project and three CBOs: Venice Family Clinic, Westside Family Health Clinic and Infant Support Program of the Santa Monica School District. The collaboration provides preventive family intervention services for families at-risk for abusing and/or neglecting their infants. The service begins in pregnancy and extends to infant age two.
The specific goals of this award are to:
- Evaluate the progress the family and child have made at one and two years of age, and
- Determine the characteristics of the families that make the best use of the intervention.
A report at the end of the year will provide answers to these questions.
Graduate students will provide the evaluation services and will be supervised. Feedback from the evaluations will be of service to the families, the students will increase their experience, and each CBO will have significant information on the total preventive service they are providing. In the above manner, the research evaluation and intervenor experience of the UCLA staff can be effectively used in consumer-friendly ways that provide information to guide their programs and train young Bilingual and English speaking professionals.
