Re: statewide family support efforts

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In a message dated 5/14/1999 5:39:40 AM Pacific Daylight Time, 
meezan@almaak.usc.edu writes:

<< I have seen references in the literature to a number of statewide efforts
 in the family support field, and was wondering if anyone knows if they are
 continuing today.  These programs include Minnesota's Early Childhood and
 Family Education Program, Missouri's Parents as Teachers, programs funded
 through the Illinois Ounce of Prevention Fund, programs funded through the
 Kentucky Education Reform Act, and state funded family support centers in
 Maryland.  Any help with this would be most appreciated.
 
 Bill Meezan
 William Meezan, DSW
 John Milner Professor of Child Welfare
 University of Southern California 
 School of Social Work
 MRF 214   University Park
 Los Angeles, CA  90089-0411
 (213) 740-5883 (office)
 (213) 740-0789 (office fax) >>


Dear Dr. Meezan--you might be interested in two initiatives that are 
statewide in California--both representing enhancements of the Healthy 
Families America  model: The California Safe and Healthy Families (Cal-SAHF) 
initiative, and the Answers Benefiting Children  (ABC)Initative, both out of 
the California Department of Social Services Office of Child Abuse 
Prevention. The Cal-SAHf program operates in 7 sites, and represents an 
enhanced HFA model. The ABC program embeds family support programs within 
family resource centers, and  seeks fundamental changes in paradigms and 
systems at the county level. This effort is just now being implemented in 17 
sites. Both approaches include both home based and center based efforts and 
rely strongly upon interdisciplinary teams which include persons skilled in 
health, substance abuse, mental health, and child development.

For further information, you might want to contact Eileen Carroll at OCAP. 
She is the manager over these initiatives 916-445-2839

--terry carrilio
San Diego State University
Social Policy Institute