Ben Goodman

Journal article Matern Child Health J · May 2022 Featured Publication OBJECTIVES: Home visiting is a popular approach to improving the health and well-being of families with infants and young children in the United States; but, to date, no home visiting program has achieved population impact for families in rural communities ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Effect of a Universal Postpartum Nurse Home Visiting Program on Child Maltreatment and Emergency Medical Care at 5 Years of Age: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Journal article JAMA Netw Open · July 1, 2021 Featured Publication IMPORTANCE: The Family Connects (FC) program, a community-wide nurse home visiting program for newborns, has been shown to provide benefits for children and families through the first 2 years of life. Potential longer-term outcomes for child well-being rem ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Randomized controlled trial of Family Connects: Effects on child emergency medical care from birth to 24 months.

Journal article Dev Psychopathol · December 2019 Featured Publication One of Tom Dishion's most significant contributions to prevention science was the development of affordable, ecologically valid interventions, such as the Family Check-Up, that screen for child and family risk factors broadly, but concentrate family-specif ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Moving Beyond Program to Population Impact: Toward a Universal Early Childhood System of Care.

Journal article J Fam Theory Rev · March 2019 Featured Publication Families have clearly benefited from increased availability of evidence-based intervention, including home-visiting models and increased federal funding for programs benefiting parents and children. The goal of population-level impact on the health and wel ... Full text Open Access Link to item Cite

Universal Reach at Birth: Family Connects

Journal article Future of Children · March 1, 2019 Featured Publication How do we screen all families in a population at a single time point, identify family-specific risks, and connect each family with evidence-based community resources that can help them overcome those risks-an approach known as targeted universalism? In thi ... Full text Open Access Cite