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Post-Natal Short-Term Home Visiting Programs: An Overview and a Volunteers-Based Program Pilot

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  • Daphna Gross Manos

    (Social Work Department, Tel Hai Academic College, Qiryat Shemona 1220800, Israel)

  • Noha Gaber Bader

    (Department of Education, Tel Hai Academic College, Qiryat Shemona 1220800, Israel)

  • Ayala Cohen

    (Social Work Department, Tel Hai Academic College, Qiryat Shemona 1220800, Israel)

Abstract

Post-natal home visits have been shown to be one of the most effective ways to prevent child maltreatment and reduce risks among children. Unfortunately, these programs tend to be expensive and thus not accessible or practical in many contexts. To address this problem, this paper reviews the literature on home visits conducted shortly after giving birth, considering different types of programs and their outcomes, while focusing on short-term and volunteer-based programs, two approaches that can answer the gap in accessibility. It then introduces a new, innovative, short-term, home visiting program that was developed in Israel. This post-natal program is uniquely structured as volunteer-based to allow it to be culturally informed and inexpensive and therefore accessible to municipalities. The paper describes how experts in the field developed the program and how the volunteers were trained. It elaborates on the protocol for the three defined home visits, each with a specific focus: (1) preventing risks at home, (2) providing parents with emotional support and tools to deal with stress, and (3) connecting them to community resources. We detail the pilot implementation process and some of the challenges that arise. Finally, we describe the design of the evaluation study that is currently collecting data in an Arab town in the north of Israel, with a final discussion on insights gained thus far from the overall process in light of the literature.

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  • Daphna Gross Manos & Noha Gaber Bader & Ayala Cohen, 2023. "Post-Natal Short-Term Home Visiting Programs: An Overview and a Volunteers-Based Program Pilot," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(17), pages 1-16, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:20:y:2023:i:17:p:6650-:d:1225467
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