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Stickel, Tabitha; Prins, Esther; Kaiper-Marquez, Anna – Learning, Media and Technology, 2021
In response to rising parental incarceration rates, some correctional facilities now offer family literacy and read-aloud programmes to strengthen parent-child bonds. However, the technologies used in these programmes -- including older technologies such as audio and video recordings -- have received little attention. Parents in the Read to Your…
Descriptors: Fathers, Family Programs, Institutionalized Persons, Correctional Institutions
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Kaiper-Marquez, Anna; Wolfe, Emily; Clymer, Carol; Lee, Jungeun; McLean, Elisabeth Grinder; Prins, Esther; Stickel, Tabitha – International Review of Education, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to extraordinary changes in family literacy instruction, forcing face-to-face programmes to shift rapidly (or "on the fly") to online, remote instruction. This study is one of the few on online teaching and learning in family literacy and, to the knowledge of the authors, the first on emergency remote…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Pandemics, COVID-19, Family Literacy
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Kirby, Kimberly C.; Versek, Brian; Kerwin, MaryLouise E.; Meyers, Kathleen; Benishek, Lois A.; Bresani, Elena; Washio, Yukiko; Arria, Amelia; Meyers, Robert J. – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2015
We describe a project focused on training parents to facilitate their treatment-resistant adolescent's treatment entry and to manage their child after entry into community-based treatment. Controlled studies show that Community Reinforcement and Family Training (CRAFT) is a unilateral treatment that fosters treatment entry of adults; however,…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Substance Abuse, Adolescents, Outcomes of Treatment
Duggan, Anne; Portilla, Ximena A.; Filene, Jill H.; Crowne, Sarah Shea; Hill, Carolyn J.; Lee, Helen; Knox, Virginia – Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 2018
This implementation research report describes the local programs, home visiting staff, and families who participated in the Mother and Infant Home Visiting Program Evaluation (MIHOPE), a national evaluation of the federal Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting (MIECHV) program launched in 2011. This national evaluation is…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Program Evaluation, Early Childhood Education, Home Visits
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Tsemberis, Sam; McHugo, Gregory; Williams, Valerie; Hanrahan, Patricia; Stefancic, Ana – Journal of Community Psychology, 2007
Reliable and valid longitudinal residential histories are needed to assess interventions to reduce homelessness and increase community tenure. This study examined the test-retest reliability, sensitivity to change, and concurrent validity of the Residential Time-Line Follow-Back (TLFB) Inventory, a method used to record residential histories in…
Descriptors: Homeless People, Validity, Reliability, Longitudinal Studies
Development Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1975
Family centers were used to coordinate the delivery of services in the Child and Family Reosurce Program (CFRP) in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, one of 11 demonstration sites in this Head Start-affiliated program. Cooperation between county service agencies was fostered by implementation of a task force whose members were executive directors of the…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Day Care, Family Programs
McAlister, Annette, Comp. – 1990
This document contains descriptions of 55 adult education experimental demonstration projects and 18 adult education staff development projects conducted in Pennsylvania in fiscal year 1991. The projects are funded through Section 353 of the Adult Education Act of 1988. Each description includes a project number, project costs, contact person with…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Correctional Education, Counseling
Werner, Evelyn, Comp. – 1991
This document contains descriptions of 66 adult education experimental demonstration projects and 18 adult education staff development projects conducted in Pennsylvania in fiscal year 1992. The projects are funded through Section 353 of the Adult Education Act of 1988. Each description includes a project number, project costs, contact person with…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Correctional Education, Counseling