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Promoting father involvement in home visiting services for vulnerable families: A pilot study [Executive summary]

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A now well-developed evidence base has pointed out the clear potential for home visiting services to deliver discernible preventive benefit to vulnerable families and children. However, a number of early home visitation outcome studies have detected no effects on child development and family outcomes, and those home visiting interventions demonstrating positive effects have commonly reported small to modest effects, indicating ample opportunity for service improvement. One of the clear "missing pieces" to the present design of the variety of evidence-supported home visitation models to date is how to address the role of fathers in young children's lives. None of the rigorously evaluated home visitation models have been designed to target fathers as primary service recipients, none were designed to address the array of father-related influences on children's well-being, and none have yet included fathers as subjects of study. Given this, the present investigation thus aimed to address this gap in home visiting services and research by developing and rigorously testing the feasibility, acceptability, and promise of the Dads Matter service enhancement in a pilot study. The Dads Matter service enhancement is a module-based, flexible intervention designed to be integrated seamlessly with a variety of home visiting service models which can be implemented by those without advanced clinical training, given that many home visitors do not have advanced clinical training. (author abstract)
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