This guide provides ideas and procedures to help agencies in providing services to children and families through the home-based program option of Head Start. It is designed to assist program administrators who are beginning Head Start Home-Based programs for the first time as well as those seeking to strengthen existing programs. The chapters are:…

Project LIFT is a 3-year model demonstration program designed to provide family-focused, home-based early intervention services to rural parents of handicapped children under 3 years of age. The LIFT model encompasses: (1) development of an Individual Family Service Plan, (2) case coordination to assist families in identifying and obtaining…

The Children's Language Institute Preschool Project developed a successful classroom-home language intervention program for mildly to mildly-to-moderately language-impaired preschool children. An overview of the project, its rationale, and its results in terms of positive change in families and children are described. This volume is designed to…