Home Visiting


Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach
Program increased care linkage and retention and longer abstinence from marijuana.

Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up
Program reduced behavioral problems and stress.

Beverages and Student Health (BASH)
Program had no impact on BMI; however, adolescents with high BMI had a significant reduction of BMI.

Checkpoints Program
Program improved driving habits of youth.

Child Health Supervision
Program improved diet and feeding, development, and problem behaviors.

Clinician-based Cognitive Psychoeducational Intervention for Families
Program improved parents' depression-related attitudes and behaviors and reduced child internalizing symptoms.

Cognitive Behavioral Family Intervention (CBFI)
Program reduced maternal depression and child disruptive behavior

Comprehensive Child Development Program
Program did not produce positive impacts for participating families.

Creating Lasting Connections
Program showed positive impacts on service utilization by parents and youth as well as on measures of parent knowledge.

Dietary Intervention Study in Children (DISC)
Program reduced cholesterol among children with high levels of LDL cholesterol.

Early Head Start
Program with center- and home-based services had positive impacts on parents and children in low-income families.

Early Intervention Program for Adolescent Mothers
Program reduced premature births and infant hospitalization duration through promotion of positive maternal behaviors

Early Risers
Program reduced disruptive behavior among children who have exhibited aggressive behavior through parent education and skills training

Early Start
Program improved outcomes on healthcare visits, check-ups, hospital visits, positive parenting attitudes, and child internalizing.

Familias Unidas
Program improved parental investment and adolescent behavior problems.

Families First
Program decreased child behavior problems and increased parent effectiveness.

Fast Track Prevention Project
Comprehensive, ten-year intervention program had positive impacts on high-risk children’s development.

First Step to Success (FSS)
Program positively impacted young children’s behavior problems. 

Focus on Families
Program reduced drug use and domestic conflict and increased problem-solving for parents, but showed no direct impact on children.

Healthy Families New York (HFNY)
Home-visiting program effective in reducing the amount of child abuse and neglect.

Healthy Steps for Young Children
Program increased likelihood of usage of covers on electrical outlets.

High Scope/Perry Preschool
High-quality preschool/home-visiting program produced numerous positive, long-term impacts.

Home-Based Nurse Intervention (INT)
Program had no impact on child's behavior problems but did reduce withdrawn behavior.

Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY)
Home-visitation program improved school readiness in children.

Home Visiting Intervention for Depressed Mothers and Their Infants
Program improved mother-infant interaction, child competence, and child attachment security.

Home Visiting to Vulnerable Families by Nurses
Program increased parent and family functioning and parental satisfaction with community health services.

Home Visitation Trial for Urban Women
Program did not impact psychoogical distress or self-esteem.

Hospital and Home Support Interventions During Infancy
Program had no impact on maternal attachment, healthcare utilization, or child abuse and neglect.

Infant Health and Development Program (IHDP)
Program with home visiting, child care, and parenting meetings produced positive impacts in low birthweight children.

Informed Parents and Children Together (ImPACT)
Program increased demonstration of adolescents' condom-use skills.

Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Postpartum Depression
Program reduced parental stress but had no impacts on infant outcomes.

Mentor-Implemented Violence Prevention Intervention for Assault-Injured Youth
Program increased conflict avoidance self-efficacy and decreased misdemeanor behaviors.

Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care (MTFC)
Program reduced rates of incarceration, arrests, and drug use among youth.

Multisystemic Therapy
Program improved family correlates of antisocial behavior and ameliorating adjustment problems.

Nuestras Familias
Program improved youth outcomes in aggression, externalizing behavior, and likelihood of smoking.

Nurse-Family Partnership
Home visiting-based program had several positive impacts on poor unmarried mothers and their children.

Nurturing Program for Teenage Parents and Their Families
Program decreased parent-child dysfunction and inappropriate expectations, but had no impact on mental health or parental stress levels.

Obesity-Focused Active Parenting
Home visiting program had no impacts on nutrition, physical activity, or weight.

Parent-Child Assistance Program
Children of mothers in the program were not more likely to have received regular medical care or appropriate immunizations. 

Parent-Child Home Program
Program increased graduation rates and decreased drop-out rates later in life for children.

Parent Management Training - Oregon Model (PMTO)
Program decreased child deviant behavior.

Parents as Teachers
Home visiting-based parent education program had small but positive impacts on parents and their young children.

Project CARE
Program increased cognitive development among children at risk for delayed development.

Raising Healthy Children
Program increased students' academic performance and commitment to school and decreased antisocial behaviors.

SCRIPT (Screening and Intervention of Problem Behavior in Toddlerhood) Study
Program improved positive maternal discipline and attitudes towards sensitivity, but it had no impact on maternal sensitivity or negative maternal discipline.

Three Generations Project
Program positively impacted adolescent mothers with mixed results for subsequent births and parenting attitudes.

Transactional Model of Early Home Intervention
Program improved child's home environment and cognitive development.

UCLA Family Development Project
Program was effective in increasing the mothers’ responsiveness to their child’s needs as well as increasing children's secure, autonomy, and task involvement.

Woodrock Youth Development Project (WYDP)
Multi-component program positively impacted substance use, race relations, and other outcomes in at-risk children and teens.