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The Abecedarian Experience 125 nitive development of children at high risk. Children’s ongoing and optimal long-term achievement ...

126 Joseph Sparling, Craig T. Ramey, and Sharon L. Ramey Hill, J. L., J. Brooks-Gunn, and J. Waldfogel. 2003. Sustained Effects ...

The Abecedarian Experience 127 ———. 1999a. Right from Birth: Building Your Child’s Foundation for Life.New York: Goddard Press. ...

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Part III Monitoring ECD Interventions— Country Experiences ...

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Chapter 6 Colombia: Challenges in Country-level Monitoring Beatriz Londoño Soto and Tatiana Romero Rey* In 1986, Colombia launch ...

Added HCB-related variables to the Quality of Life Survey [En- cuesta de Calidad de Vida] (DANE 2003) Established a system for ...

The National Council for Economic and Social Policy [Consejo Na- cional de Política Económica y Social (CONPES)] approved the HC ...

program provides the leadership for investment and intervention de- cisions concerning early childhood issues. Current Coverage ...

affection, nutrition, health, protection, and psychosocial develop- ment. This goal is achieved through the coordinated action o ...

Box 1. HCB Program: Initial Model and Four Submodalities Community Family Homes—led by community mothers who care for 13–15 chil ...

Community Mothers—Agents for Change Community mothers are the “executors” of the HCB program. These social agents have gradually ...

for the mothers is 31–40 years (38.6 percent), and the highest level of schooling is high school (with 35.3 percent holding a di ...

tended a university is insignificant, and only 0.1 percent of commu- nity mothers in urban zones have done graduate studies. Com ...

Issues for the Future The National Registry of Community Mothers study provides impor- tant data on which to build. Issues for t ...

Seniority and Remuneration.Seniority among the community mothers, as revealed in the study, is also an important issue and shoul ...

The monitoring of community mothers has regional dimensions. That is, study–work sessions are organized by region, and staff fro ...

Examine the consequences of some of the social problems and contribute to their monitoring and evaluation. Examine the effect o ...

At the time of the evaluation, the HCB program was characterized as follows: HCBs were located in 1,042 municipalities distribu ...