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Bishop, Kathleen Kirk, Ed.; Taylor, Mary Skidmore, Ed.; Arango, Polly, Ed. – 1997
Designed to celebrate family/interprofessional collaborative partnerships, this publication describes high-quality examples of how families and professionals at the family, community, state, and national levels have worked together to create programs and practices that are family-friendly and responsive to what families have said they want and…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Family Programs, Integrated Services, Interprofessional Relationship
Yoo, Claire Jung Jin, Comp. – 1995
This directory includes listings of advocacy, economic development, organizing, legal assistance, social services, research, job training, and education programs for immigrant and refugee women. It is not a comprehensive listing of all such projects, but it is a select listing of groups which responded to a questionnaire produced by the Nationwide…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advocacy, Economic Factors, Females
Bowers, Gary E.; Bowers, Margaret R. – 1976
This monograph describes and analyzes recent efforts to develop measurable units for human services in the social services and mental health services areas. The issues surrounding the "unit of service" are examined along with the problems encountered by the system designer or information user in past projects, and some of today's more…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Human Services, Management Information Systems, Mental Health
Delaney, Anita J., Ed. – 1979
The major aim of this report is to develop a model of mental health service delivery to the urban, low-income black community. The model assumes that racism and poverty have placed constraints on the development and functioning of systems related to the black family and that the family is the primary source of mental health in the black community.…
Descriptors: Black Culture, Blacks, Economically Disadvantaged, Family (Sociological Unit)
Mizio, Emelicia, Ed. – 1979
A model of mental health service delivery to the low-income Puerto Rican population in areas of the mainland United States where Puerto Ricans are concentrated is presented in this report. The model, designed for use by family service agencies and other similar mental health facilities, assumes that Puerto Ricans are at great risk for mental…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Family (Sociological Unit), Mental Health, Mental Health Programs
MacDonald, Mia – 1994
The decline in Federal funding for state-provided social services during the 1980s triggered a transformation in the states' roles in family policymaking. This booklet documents four state initiatives designed to bring about systems change: (1) Healthy Start (California); (2) the Governor's Families and Children Initiative (Colorado); (3) the…
Descriptors: Cooperation, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Elementary Secondary Education
Stone, Helen D.; Hunzeker, Jeanne M. – 1974
This book provides basic material on preservice and inservice instructional programming for foster parents and foster family social workers, and describes a number of program models in which these basic materials are being implemented. The materials (most of which were developed for the June 1973 Invitational Training Seminar at St. Louis…
Descriptors: Educational Programs, Foster Children, Foster Family, Inservice Education
Allen, MaryLee; And Others – 1992
By strengthening families' ability to nurture their children physically, emotionally, and intellectually, family support programs increase the likelihood that children will grow up healthy, safe, and successful. This report provides child advocates and others who work for children's well-being a clearer idea of what family support programs do, how…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Health, Child Rearing, Child Welfare
Goetz, Kathryn, Ed. – 1992
This guide describes the status of selected family resource programs in the United States and Canada. The first chapter provides detailed descriptions of 13 programs that offer collaborative and comprehensive services. These programs, which are often large and innovative, foster coalitions of service providers in order to offer an extensive range…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Child Health, Children
Unger, Christopher; And Others – 1977
This book describes the establishment, organization, and policies of Spaulding for Children, a small, voluntary, specialized adoption program in Michigan that works at placing hard-to-place children who are legally free for adoption. The agency was created to supplement existing public and private child placement services. Topics covered include:…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adoption, Agency Role, Attitude Change
Mayer, Morris Fritz; And Others – 1977
This book examines the current state of residential group care for dependent, neglected and emotionally disturbed children in the United States and Canada. A result of the Group Care Project of the Child Welfare League of America, the book is divided into four parts. Part I describes the project, puts group care into historical and sociological…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Child Abuse, Child Advocacy, Child Care