@article{ref1,
title="Effectiveness of a comprehensive, five-year family support program for low-income children and their families: findings from the comprehensive child development program",
journal="Early childhood research quarterly",
year="2000",
author="Goodson, Barbara D. and Layzer, Jean I. and St.Pierre, Robert G. and Bernstein, Lawrence S. and Lopez, Michael",
volume="15",
number="1",
pages="5-39",
abstract="A randomized experiment was conducted to test the effects of the Comprehensive Child Development Program (CCDP), a two-generation program that employed case management and home visiting to ensure multi-risk, low-income children and their parents a range of education, health, and social services to meet the complex needs of disadvantaged families. The evaluation of 21 CCDP projects, which followed 4,410 families for five years, found no statistically significant impact on CCDP families when they were compared with control families in either child outcomes (cognitive and socio-emotional development, and health) on parent outcomes (parenting, family economic self-sufficiency, or maternal life course). Since the intervention failed to change parenting behavior or family economic status, the two hypothesized pathways to affecting the well-being of the children, not unexpectedly there were no significant impacts of CCDP on children. The study suggests that the combination of case management and parenting education, delivered through home visits, is not an effective means of improving developmental outcomes for low-income children.<p />",
language="",
issn="0885-2006",
doi="10.1016/S0885-2006(99)00040-X",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0885-2006(99)00040-X"
}