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Veyna, Angelina F. – 1988
This guidebook outlines a process for producing a parent educational conference designed to increase parental involvement in children's education. It is based on the experiences of the planners of the Parents as Partners for Excellence in Education conferences that have been conducted by the Orange County, California, Human Relations Commission. A…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education, Parent Child Relationship
Download full textUniversity of Southern Maine, Portland. Edmund S. Muskie Inst. of Public Affairs. – 1993
This handbook is intended to provide a guide to incarcerated parents, prison administrators and staff members, and child development and parent education professionals interested in developing and running parent education and support programs for incarcerated parents. The information and suggestions contained in the handbook are based on the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Correctional Education, Educational Finance, Family Programs
Dick, Marlene A.; And Others – 1988
Representatives were surveyed from 36 parent training programs dealing with school-to-adult-life transition, to identify practices which appeared to correlate strongly with positive outcomes for parents, professionals, and children/youth with special needs. Strategies which were identified as essential to parent/professional collaborative training…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Coordination, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Dick, Marlene A.; And Others – 1988
This project was designed to identify effective parent/professional collaborative training strategies related to transition. Following a review of the literature on collaborative efforts, methodology is presented for a survey of 36 programs. The survey addressed four key areas: elements related to the type and level of training, demographic…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Coordination, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Iowa State Dept. of Education, Des Moines. – 1994
This booklet is designed to help parents, educators, and communities facilitate parent and family involvement in the education of their children. Eight chapters provide: (1) a discussion of the basics of parent involvement, including the benefits of parent involvement, elements common to successful parent involvement programs, and types of parent…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Educational Resources, Educational Strategies, Elementary Secondary Education
Kumpfer, Karol L.; Tait, Connie M. – 2000
Originally designed as a drug abuse prevention program for drug-abusing parents and their children, the Strengthening Families Program (SFP) has developed into a family-change program. Presented in 14 2-hour-long, consecutive weekly sessions, SFP has two versions: for elementary school children and their parents and for parents and youth 10-14…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Behavior Change, Blacks, Coping
