Document all recruitment efforts through logs and files maintained by staff. Conduct focus groups of volunteers and interview staff to assess most effective recruitment and retention strategies. Develop database to profile volunteers and review periodically to compare characteristics of volunteers with target population and general community population. Document barriers encountered through weekly staff reports. Develop strategies for overcoming barriers.
Weekly staff reports.
Several women from this program will participate in focus groups to help further identify community needs and family goals. As a result of this project, these mothers have increased their skills to provide a safer home environment and have become more nurturing parents, as reported by several parents. This successful program has been replicated at another Boston location affiliated with the Dimock Health Center. Children will have their basic physical, social, emotional and intellectual needs met. Babies will be born healthy.