Part of the curriculum included visits to other students' homes.
"Things were unclear until December, when the board got the curriculum and visited the school," he said.
The project combines elements of citizenship in the curriculum plus visits out to workplaces or training and higher education institutions with opportunities to meet students, look around a campus or have a meal in a university refectory.
The curriculum and visits by the health educator encouraged center staff to act as positive role models in the garden and in the classroom, by giving them language to use when approaching novel situations and foods.
Mentors underwent six weeks' pre-service training on the home visiting curriculum and protocols, training and supervision skills, and conducting home visits, including supervised practice.
The curriculum includes sports, visits to museums and instruction in dance, art, music, theater and photography.
The initial 3-year TDR funding allowed the School of Public Health to employ a fulltime academic to coordinate the course and steer its development, fund curriculum development (workshops, visits from international experts), buy books and software, and set up a computer laboratory.
However, Smithbattle points out that little is known about how nurses and women are able to cultivate these positive therapeutic relationships, and how nurses respond to clients' unique life situations while following a set curriculum during home visits [ 13].
The curriculum instructs VHWs to visit pregnant women and infants frequently, but the precise content or purpose of each visit is not specified.
As it is developed, the Westchester program's curriculum will also include visits from victims of violent crime, who will come into the jail and describe in detail to inmates how that crime affected their lives.
