Citation
Tomlinson, Mark; Rahman, Atif; Sanders, David; Maselko, Joanna; & Rotheram-Borus, Mary Jane (2014). Leveraging Paraprofessionals and Family Strengths to Improve Coverage and Penetration of Nutrition and Early Child Development Services. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1308, 162-171. PMCID: PMC4005291Abstract
Children need to be protected in intergenerational networks, with parents who have positive mood, resources to feed their children, and skills to promote early childhood development (ECD). Globally, more than 200 million children are raised annually without these resources. This article reviews the potential contributions of increasing coverage and penetration of services for these children, challenges to achieving penetration of services in high-risk families, opportunities created by bundling multiple services within one provider, potential leveraging of paraprofessionals to deliver care, and mobilizing communities to support children in households at high risk for negative outcomes. We end with a number of suggestions for how to ensure the equitable scale-up of integrated ECD and nutrition services that take into account current global priorities, as well as coverage and penetration of services.URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nyas.12269Reference Type
Journal ArticleYear Published
2014Journal Title
Annals of the New York Academy of SciencesAuthor(s)
Tomlinson, MarkRahman, Atif
Sanders, David
Maselko, Joanna
Rotheram-Borus, Mary Jane