Leveraging paraprofessionals and family strengths to improve coverage and penetration of nutrition and early child development services
Tomlinson, M.; Rahman, A.; Sanders, D.; Maselko, J.; Rotheram-Borus, M.Jane.
Annals of the new York Academy of Sciences 1308: 162-171
2014
ISSN/ISBN: 0077-8923 PMID: 24117669 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.12269Document Number: 578341
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.
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