Partnerships for Positive Parenting
These Center initiatives promote positive parenting by creating, enhancing, or evaluating partnerships parents may have with various service providers or community systems. Current projects focus on partnerships with health care providers, early education providers, the school system, the court system, and employers. Dr. Chris Payne is involved with the following initiativesReady Together
Commissioned by the Cemala Foundation and the Joseph M. Bryan Foundation, this project provides a community assessment of parenting intervention and education programs in Guilford County. As well, it provides a set of final recommendations and tools to be used by program providers, related health and education providers and funders to improve services and to seek and allocate limited resources most effectively.
- Executive summary (pdf)
Ready for School, Ready for Life
- Brochure (pdf)
Baby First
This project is a randomized study of the effects of Early Head Start and Nurse Family Partnership program models individually and in combination. Data from this study has provided important information on implementing the most beneficial and cost effective programs for vulnerable women and their infants. Phase One of this project was funded through a planning grant from the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
Nurse Family Partnership
We have served as the evaluator on North Carolina’s Nurse Family Partnership (NFP) program. Currently work with the NFP includes integration with Early Head Start services, a collaboration with Guilford Child Health to provide a medical home for vulnerable pregnant women, and expansion of related fathering programs. NFP evaluation funding was received through the Office of Adolescent Pregnancy through the Office of Population Affairs.
Infant Mental Health Court
Juvenile and Family Court Judges are responsible for the well-being of the children in their courts and can be powerful agents of change. This new initiative combines judicial muscle with child development and mental health community partners so that babies and toddlers are given the attention and life-changing help they need.
Mothers’ Work, Parenting, and Child Health in Impoverished Families
This study will explore the link of parenting to child health in impoverished families where mothers have nonstandard work schedules.