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Gay, Jan L.; Swank, Jacqueline M. – Professional School Counseling, 2021
The American School Counselor Association Closing-the-Gap Action Plan template is a tool created to help school counselors identify educational gaps and track interventions. We applied a transcendental, phenomenological qualitative research method to explore school counselors' use of the template to advocate for students. Our findings demonstrate…
Descriptors: School Counselors, Achievement Gap, Intervention, Equal Education
Vaughan, Jennifer Lee – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Supporting and retaining new teachers is an ever-growing challenge faced by school districts across the nation (Anhorn, 2008; Ingersoll & Strong, 2011; Lieberman, Saxl, & Miles, 1988; Lorti, 1975). One way that many schools approach this opportunity to support new teachers is through teacher mentoring programs (Goldrick, 2016; Gray &…
Descriptors: Beginning Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Influences, Mentors
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Ilakkuvan, Vinu; Snyder, Melanie G.; Wiggins, Jane – Perspectives in Peer Programs, 2015
Students on a college campus are involved in each other's lives in ways that are pervasive and consequential, including during times of distress. A comprehensive campus based suicide prevention plan includes strategies to promote peer involvement that are both safe and effective. Careful program planning, careful training and careful messaging are…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Participation, Peer Relationship, Prevention
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Gendron, Tracey; Maddux, Stu; Krinsky, Lisa; White, Jay; Lockeman, Kelly; Metcalfe, Yohvane; Aggarwal, Sadashiv – Educational Gerontology, 2013
The population of the aging lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is significant and growing rapidly. As LGBT individuals age and begin to move into healthcare communities, they are fearful of apathy, discrimination, and abuse by healthcare providers and other residents. Person-centered cultural competence and sensitivity among…
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Homosexuality, Aging (Individuals), Social Bias
Theodos, Brett; Pergamit, Michael R.; Edelstein, Sara; George, Taz; Freiman, Lesley – Urban Institute, 2014
This report presents baseline and process study findings of an evaluation of the Urban Alliance high school internship program, which provides training, mentoring, and work experience to high school seniors from distressed communities in Washington, DC, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, and Chicago. The report, which focuses on the program's…
Descriptors: College Preparation, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Internship Programs
Bodkin, Catherine – Zero to Three (J), 2010
The Virginia Home Visiting Consortium (HVC) is a collaboration of public and private organizations which work to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of home visiting services throughout the state. The HVC identified service needs and gaps and has focused on increasing the interagency state and local partnerships so that resources are…
Descriptors: Consortia, Systems Development, Home Visits, Agency Cooperation
Haulman, C. A.; And Others – 1975
This report details the development and evaluation of a model program for inservice training of full-time child day care personnel. Based on a survey of licensed day care centers in Virginia, the program involved 100 participants, ranging from day care aides through center directors. The 10-week training element was presented three successive…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Development, Day Care, Day Care Centers
MacDougall, Mary Ann; Brown, Jeannette A. – 1973
The major objective of the study was to provide children with social skill training through: (1) individual opportunities for children to examine and adopt more productive alternatives to the satisfaction of their needs; (2) small group opportunities for children to discuss and learn the differential consequences of cognitive, affective, and…
Descriptors: Classroom Guidance Programs, Classroom Techniques, Counseling Services, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
Coogle, Constance L., Ed.; Finley, Ruth B., Ed. – 1994
Although this training manual was developed as a tool for trainers of African American and rural family caregivers of elders with dementia, it can easily be adapted for trainers of caregivers (both formal and informal) of persons other than those with dementia. The first section educates potential trainers about dementia, rural issues, ethnic…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Alzheimers Disease, Blacks
Coogle, Constance L., Ed.; Finley, Ruth B., Ed. – 1994
This Replication Plan describes an Administration on Aging funded Project, "Assisting Caregivers of Black and Rural Elders with Dementia: Progressive Training through Trusted Resources." The project directly developed the capacities of trusted community leaders (n=69) who served as trainers of African American and rural family caregivers…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Learning, Alzheimers Disease, Blacks
Ragan, Mark – 2003
Service integration attempts to provide coordinated service delivery systems for the uncoordinated mix of programs such as income support programs (food stamps, Medicaid, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) and employment, child care, child welfare, and training programs that exist at the local level throughout the United States by…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Programs, Delivery Systems, Employment Programs
Coogle, Constance L., Ed.; Finley, Ruth B., Ed. – 1994
A program was developed in Virginia to train Black and rural family caregivers of persons with dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease. This final program report begins with project briefs that summarize major products and findings, program objectives and accomplishments, and dissemination activities. Chapter 1 addresses issues related to…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Alzheimers Disease, Blacks, Community Resources