Home Visitation Programs: Preventing Violence and Promoting Healthy Early Child Development

Part 1. Introduction to Home Visiting and its Challenges.- 1. Introduction: Home Visitation as a Primary Prevention Tool for Violence; Alberto Concha-Eastman.- 2. The Four Challenges for Home Visitation: Alcohol and Substance Abuse, Intrafamilial Violence, and Mental Disorders; Maristela G. Monteiro.- Part 2. Home Visiting Programs and Practices: Research and Evaluation.- 3. Home Visiting to Enhance Child Development in the Context of Violence: Possibilities and Limitations; Jon Korfmacher.- 4. Developmental Parenting Home Visiting to Prevent Violence: Monitoring and Evaluating; Lori Roggman.- 5. Developing the Home Visiting Workforce; Nick Wechsler.- 6. Supporting the Paraprofessional Home Visitor; Jon Kofmarcher.- 7. Engagement and Retention in Home Visiting Child Abuse Prevention Programs; William M. McGuigan and Breanna Gassner.- 8. Addressing Psychosocial Risk Factors among Families Enrolled in Home Visiting: Issues and Opportunities; S. Darius Tandon.- 9. Considerations on the Implementation, Innovation, and Improvement of Evidence-Based Home Visiting Programs; Mark S. Innocenti.- Part 3. Home Visiting Programs Outside the United States.- 10. Home Visitation Programs for Early Child Development: Experiences in Latin America and the Caribbean; Nancy Cardia, Renato Alves, Aline Gomes, and Alder Mourão.- 11. Home Visiting Interventions to Promote Values that Support School Success; Martha Julia García-Sellers.- 12. The Roving Caregivers Programme: A Caribbean Model; Susan Branker, Clive Murray, and Horis Lynch.- 13. The Investment In Home Visit Programs in Rural Indigenous Communities as a Strategy to Grant a Good Start in Life for Young Children; J. Leonardo Yánez.