Essential Components
Early Screening of Mothers and Newborns Ongoing Monitoring, Assessment, and
Referral Child Centred Programs Parent-Child Centred Programs Family Support Programs Community Development
Operational Features
Sites and Services
Location: in high risk area
Focus: pregnant mothers and
families with young children
Access: universal
Accessibility: time,
location, transportation, child care, etc.
Services: partnerships and
collaboration
Funders: multiple
Site: central and accessible
Outreach: home visiting
Adaptation: to reach most
at-risk families
Range of Services: full
Parent Participation: in
design and provision of the model
Quality: continuous
monitoring of quality of services
Evaluation: ongoing
Team Functioning
Service Providers:
multidisciplinary team
Professional Relationship:
training and mentoring
Hands-on Team collaboration
Principals Child development is the focus.
Ecological or transactional model of child development.
Respect, trust and caring among all participants
Flexible, culturally sensitive services
Built on strengths and protective factors of all participants
Model is experienced as a set of seamless services
Professionalism is highly valued and strongly supported
Parent and community leader participation must be strong and significant
High quality is required for effective services.
