Our Research

BFF was a prenatal to early childhood home-visiting program to support first-time Latino and African American young mothers in their transition to motherhood and adulthood. BFF services focused on strengthening mothers’ ability to use positive parenting strategies and to support their children’s development and school readiness.  Once again, services were primarily delivered by highly trained paraprofessionals called Family Coaches who are supervised by mental health clinicians.  Programmatic work focused on the adaptation of Family Spirit-a strength-based empirically supported paraprofessional home visiting program developed for Native Americans- to our urban, Latino and African American parent population.