Family connections

Assessing the cost-effectiveness of Family Connections.

OBJECTIVE To assess the cost-effectiveness of two alternate forms of Family Connections (FC), a child neglect prevention program, in relation to changes in risk and protective factors and improvements in child safety and behavioral outcomes. METHODS In the original FC study, a sample of 154 families (473 children) in a poor, urban neighborhood, who met risk criteria for child neglect, were ra...

Lifelong Connections: Every Youth Deserves a Family

The child welfare system does a good job overall at providing protection, safety, housing, nourishment, training and therapy for youth. Even though youth are provided essential resources—such as shelter, life skills training and counseling—child welfare services do not systematically link youth to family members or significant lifelong connections that will become their support system after ema...

The La-Related Proteins, a Family with Connections to Cancer

The evolutionarily-conserved La-related protein (LARP) family currently comprises Genuine La, LARP1, LARP1b, LARP4, LARP4b, LARP6 and LARP7. Emerging evidence suggests each LARP has a distinct role in transcription and/or mRNA translation that is attributable to subtle sequence variations within their La modules and specific C-terminal domains. As emerging research uncovers the function of each...


 
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Seeking information, seeking connections, seeking meaning: genealogists and family historians

Genealogy and family history are examples of everyday life information seeking and provide a unique example of intensive and extensive use of libraries and archives over time. In spite of the ongoing nature of this activity, genealogists and family historians have rarely been the subject of study in the information seeking literature and therefore the nature of their information problems have n...