Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Every Child Succeeds: Support for "at risk" families

This story about Purpose Prize winner Judith Van Ginkel is reprinted with permission from Encore.org .

Every Child Succeeds was founded in 1999 by Judith Van Ginkel and fellow community leaders. The Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center program provides in-home services and support for first-time, at-risk mothers, helping thousands of families each year get a good start.

The porgram has built a decade of evidence showing that organized home visits by a social worker or nurse during a woman’s pregnancy through her child’s third birthday can improve the lives of both mother and child.

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