Helping to Prevent Child Abuse--and Future Criminal Consequences: Hawai'i Healthy Start

• NCJ Number: 156216
• Date Published: January 1995
• Length: 12 pages
• Publication Series: NIJ Program Focus
• Agencies: NIJ

Annotation

Hawaii's Healthy Start program uses home visitors from the community to provide services to at-risk families and to specifically reduce family stress, improve family functioning and parenting skills, enhance child health and development, and prevent child abuse and neglect.

Abstract

This NIJ Program Focus report describes the Hawaii Healthy Start program, which uses home visitors from the community to provide services to at-risk families. Program goals are to reduce family stress and improve family functioning, improve parenting skills, enhance child health and development, and prevent abuse and neglect.