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Home Visiting Interventions to Promote Values That Support School Success

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The challenges, evaluation, and sustainability of home-visiting programs in the USA and worldwide are extensively discussed elsewhere in this book. This chapter focuses in greater detail on specific goals for home visits related to education in three particular settings. Here I want to draw attention to why these studies relied on home visits and what benefits resulted in terms of participant receptivity, project design, and achievement of objectives. The three projects reported here are similar in that they promote home–school connections, focus on parent–teacher communication, and involve Latino families, school participants, and a home–school mediator or liaison.

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    Funding for this project was provided in part by the Cultural Change Institute at the Fletcher School of Tufts University.

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    In English Asociación Cambiando Vidas (ACAVI) is “Changing Lives.” ACAVI’s school, El Centro Educativo la Excelencia, has received support from the Guatemalan government and several local and international donors to build the school facilities and cover salaries of teachers and staff and the expenses of extracurricular activities. Other founding members of Cambiando Vidas were Bertha Guadalupe Cuyún L., Mónica Angélica Gaytán, and Cecilia Martínez.

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    Lori Roggman

  2. Center for the Study of Violence, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Nancy Cardia

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García-Sellers, M. (2016). Home Visiting Interventions to Promote Values That Support School Success. In: Roggman, L., Cardia, N. (eds) Home Visitation Programs. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17984-1_11

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