Media Center
Family Connects International (FCI) aims to improve health outcomes at the population level for newborns and their families. We do this through innovative research and evaluation, policy engagement and the dissemination of the Family Connects model — an evidence-based model that combines engagement and alignment of community service providers with short-term nurse home visiting, beginning in the first month after birth.
For more information or to request an interview with an FCI staff member, please contact:
Carol Shirley, Marketing and Communications
carol.shirley@duke.edu
Media Highlights:
- The Next Step in Early Childhood Policy: Creating a Universal System of Care for Families with Young Children
- Home Visiting Program Linked to Less Child Abuse
- Durham program making a huge difference for families with newborns
- NC gets big federal grant for child programs
- US News: Nurses bring in-home care, connections in North Carolina
- Futurity: Nurse visits after a new baby cut child abuse
- Center for American Progress: How Universal Home Visiting Models Can Support Newborns and Their Families
- CBS: Unique program sends nurses into the homes of new, often nervous, parents
- Kenneth Dodge: Understanding and preventing violent behaviors in children
- Providing assistance to new parents
- CBS News features Duke program that helps the nation’s newborns
- Successful durham infant home-visiting program goes national
- Lincoln County at the forefront of new law helping parents