early-intervention

Mentoring USA, founded by former first lady of New York, Matilda Raffa Cuomo, is an effective, early-intervention mentoring program to prevent school dropout.

A Call to Support Mentoring From Verizon « 2010

Restore and strengthen the federal productivity measures—starting with basic ones, such as money orders sold by the postal service, or cases of diabetes prevented by early-intervention programs of the Health and Human Services Department—that were abolished during the 1994 budget crisis in a penny-wise, pound-foolish purge of small-scale programs.

The Easy Way Washington Could Save $1 Trillion Paul C. Light 2011

Gabe spent six months last year participating in an early-intervention study at the Kennedy Krieger Institute Center for Autism and Related Disorders in the Page's home town of Baltimore.

New Ways to Diagnose Autism Earlier 2008

Upon diagnosing Ben, doctors referred us to an early-intervention center (serving children from birth to 3 years) in our home state of Massachusetts.

The Making Of A Miracle 2008

"Sims says county can't afford $5 million in Sheriff's Office reforms" The cost of implementing a package of sweeping reforms proposed for the King County Sheriff's Office -- including hiring new sergeants, providing better training for all ranks and creating an early-intervention system to deal with problem behavior -- is simply too high for a government still dealing with serious budget woes, Metropolitan King County Executive Ron Sims said Monday.

Sound Politics: Ron Sims has no sense of budget priorities 2006

If the baby is found significantly delayed in any area of development, he or she is plugged into a system that will provide a home-based early-intervention program to address specific goals for that child.

MAIL CALL: INFORMED OR OVERLOADED? 2008

Now, with a healthy toddler and a husband working full time, Davila says of Hampton's early-intervention program: "I don't know what I would have done without it."

Helping Families Help Themselves 2008

Your county likely has a similar early-intervention program.

MAIL CALL: INFORMED OR OVERLOADED? 2008

New Initiatives: To combat the discouraging trend, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus last month introduced legislation that would, among other things, establish early-intervention programs for elementary-school students and grant scholarships to college students who would teach in disadvantaged areas.

Falling Further Behind 2008

Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the study found that early-intervention programs like Head Start help poor kids stay in school and out of jail.

Preschool Helps Poor Kids Do Better In Life 2007