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The Committee held a hearing on bipartisan legislation that would help strengthen American families and help more children arrive at school ready to succeed by expanding access to early childhood home visitation programs for parents and children.
Research shows that these programs, which provide a variety of services ranging from pre-natal medical care to school readiness and family literacy programs, can help improve student achievement, reduce child abuse rates, improve early identification of developmental delays and disabilities, and improve access to health services.
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Witnesses:
Research shows that these programs, which provide a variety of services ranging from pre-natal medical care to school readiness and family literacy programs, can help improve student achievement, reduce child abuse rates, improve early identification of developmental delays and disabilities, and improve access to health services.
- Laura A. Ditka, JD » Deputy District Attorney and Chief of Child Abuse Unit Allegheny County, Pennsylvania
- William A. Estrada » Director of Federal Relations Home School Legal Defense Association Purcellville, Virginia
- Julie Fenley » Participant Parents as Teachers Home Visitation Program Norfolk Naval Station, Virginia
- Makeda London » Healthy Families Program Director and Family Support Services Coordinator Near North Health Service Corporation Chicago, Illinois
- Jeanne Smart, R.N., M.S.N. » Director Nurse-Family Partnership Los Angeles County, California
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Heather B. Weiss, Ed.D. » Founder and Director Harvard Family Research Project »
Founder and Director
Harvard Family Research Project
Senior Research Associate and Lecturer Harvard Graduate School of Education
- Panel I:
- Governor Martin O'Malley » State of Maryland
- Panel II:
- Dr. Nancy S. Grasmick » Superintendent Maryland State Department of Education
- Ms. Karen Harris » Principal Pot Spring Elementary School Timonium, Maryland
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Dr. Oliver Pergams »
Conservation Biologist
Department of Biological Sciences University of Illinois at Chicago -
Dr. Robert Lawrence »
Director
Center for a Livable Future Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Baltimore, Maryland - Mr. Sean Davidson » Co-founder Greenlight Biofuels
- Elisabeth Chun » Executive Director Good Beginnings Alliance Honolulu, Hawaii
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Ron Haskins, Ph.D. »
Senior Fellow
Economic Studies Brookings Institution Washington, D.C. - Eric Karolak, Ph.D. » Executive Director Early Care and Education Consortium Washington, D.C.
- Charles Kolb » President Committee on Economic Development Washington, D.C.
- Deborah Phillips, Ph.D. » Professor of Psychology Georgetown University Washington, D.C.
- Kathleen Priestley » Early Education Coordinator City of Orange School District Orange, New Jersey
*Chairman Miller's statement was delivered by Representative Mazie Hirono (D-HI) who chaired this hearing.
- Ross A. Thompson, Ph.D » Department of Psychology University of California Davis, California
- Mac McKeever » Out-County Head Start Director Genesee County Community Action Resource Dept. Flint, Michigan
- Barbara Haxton » Executive Director The Ohio Head Start Association Dayton, Ohio
- Pearlie Elloie » Director Office for Children, Youth and Families Total Community Action, Inc. New Orleans, Louisiana
- Ellen Frede, Ph.D » Co-Director National Institute for Early Education Research New Brunswick, New Jersey