Thursday, July 08, 1999
Agency for kids appoints leaders
New moms get visits, advice
BY MARK CURNUTTE
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The regional home visitation program for first-time mothers, Every Child Succeeds, hit the ground running.
By its July 1 opening, the program had already reached 100 new mothers, many of them in at-risk families, received inquiries from 200 more mothers, raised more than $5 million, signed contracts with 10 provider agencies in five counties and trained 85 family-support workers.
Today, the program will announce the hiring of top executives.
They are:
• Executive Director Judith Van Ginkel. She chaired the Every Child Succeeds steering committee and is a former assistant senior vice president at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.
• Dr. Robert T. Ammerman, a clinical psychologist who has worked with abused and neglected children at the Allegheny University of Health Sciences and the University of Pittsburgh, as evaluation director.
• Dr. Frank W. Putnam, a child and adolescent psychiatrist who has studied the effects of violence and trauma on children at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington, D.C., as scientific director.
By next week, Every Child Succeeds will be in its new office at Children's Hospital Medical Center.
“We're just finishing the pilot state,” Ms. Van Ginkel said. “It's happening, but it's going to take a while.”
The United Way & Community Chest's Every Child Succeeds home visitation initiative was created in May 1997. Organizers decided home visits were the most effective way to cut regional infant mortality, child abuse and teen pregnancy rates.
Most of the area's existing 25 home visitation programs have agreed to join Every Child Succeeds. Children's Hospital is lending medical personnel and expertise to the project, and the Community Action Agency is recruiting workers to help with the 25 to 30 visits each mother in the program will receive before and after giving birth.
The organization, which anticipates visiting 11,000 mothers a year in a nine-county area stretching across Southwest Ohio, Northern Kentucky and Southeast Indiana, plans to work with 1,200 new mothers within the next year, Ms. Van Ginkel said.
The program is available now in Hamilton, Clermont, Boone, Kenton and Campbell counties, and will be available soon in Brown, Butler, Warren and Dearborn counties.
Information: 636-2831.
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