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Broken Promises: How the Bush Administration is Failing America's Children [with] Executive Summary.
Children's Defense Fund, Washington, DC. – 2003
Asserting that President Bush's proposal to shift responsibility for Head Start to the states would allow the federal government to abandon its promise to truly give children a head start, this report, with accompanying executive summary, outlines what is known about children receiving Head Start services and how the program addresses their needs.…
Descriptors: Budgets, Childhood Needs, Children, Client Characteristics (Human Services)
Download full textListening Post, 1984
This special edition summarizes the discussions which proceeded during the Indian Health Service (IHS) Mental Health Plenary Session. Following introductory comments by four session participants are seven discussion topics: mental health status of American Indians and Alaska Natives; history and description of the program; services for children…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, American Indians, Human Services
Listening Post, 1984
This special edition contains the background material prepared for the Indian Health Service (IHS) Mental Health Program Review session of January 17-19, 1984 which reviewed the background of the Mental Health Program, assessed the major current management and programmatic issues, and developed recommendations for improving the program. The Review…
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, American Indian Education, American Indians, Human Services
California State Postsecondary Education Commission, Sacramento. – 1991
This report reviews the origins of the Human Corps concept, discusses the Human Corps activities of the University of California and the California State University over the past year (1991), and offers two recommendations concerning future reporting requirements related to this program. The recommendations are: (1) the University of California…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Services, Extracurricular Activities, Higher Education
Irish, Kate; Schumacher, Rachel; Lombardi, Joan – 2003
As Congress is scheduled to reauthorize the entire Head Start program in 2003, it is important to understand more about Early Head Start and the children and families the program serves. This policy brief, third in a series analyzing Head Start Program Information Report (PIR) data, synthesizes Early Head Start data from the most recently…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention
O'Brien, Robert W.; D'Elio, Mary Ann; Vaden-Kiernan, Michael; Magee, Candice; Younoszai, Tina; Keane, Michael J.; Connell, David C.; Hailey, Linda – 2002
Recognizing that families have played an essential role in the Head Start philosophy since the program's inception, the Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) is an effort to develop a descriptive profile of families participating in the Head Start program and services, as well as to develop, test, and refine Program Performance…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Diversity (Student), Family Characteristics
Chaudry, Ajay; And Others – 1993
This annotated bibliography describes 53 books, papers, and articles written about efforts toward integrating and improving human services for children, youth, and families living in poverty. The bibliography has been developed for individuals working on and interested in service integration, including policymakers, program administrators,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Annotated Bibliographies, Children, Cooperative Planning
Council of Chief State School Officers, Washington, DC. – 1988
In order to create a base of information about early childhood and related services that would be useful to chief state school officers and other education policymakers, the Study Commission of the Council of Chief State School Officers developed and distributed a questionnaire to its members. The commission's aim was to collect information on the…
Descriptors: Coordination, Criteria, Early Childhood Education, Eligibility
Thompson, Lisa; Uyeda, Kimberly – UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, 2004
The federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) has launched a five-year initiative that will support state efforts to build comprehensive early childhood service systems. This initiative--the State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (SECCS) Initiative--provides planning and implementation grants to the state and territory Maternal and…
Descriptors: Child Health, Family Programs, Leadership, Home Visits
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 2002
The following were examined: (1) the Department of Transportation's (DOT) efforts to evaluate the Job Access and Reverse Commute (Job Access) program; (2) transportation and related services provided by Job Access; (3) whether the program fosters collaboration between grantees and others in the design, financing, and delivery of those services;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Agency Cooperation, Block Grants
