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Download full textFitzgerald, Maureen, Ed. – 1999
The designated leaders of maternal and child health (MCH) in more than 70 major urban city and county health departments submitted profiles of urban MCH efforts as a requirement for federally subsidized attendance. When these profiles were reviewed, eight broad themes were apparent as lessons from MCH practice. The lessons are: (1) drawing in…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Cooperation, Health Services, Profiles
Shedlin, Allan, Jr., Ed. – 1992
Thousands of children exposed prenatally to drugs are now of school age, presenting schools and educators as well as social service agencies with enormous challenges. This book provides information from education, medical, public health, and social service experts on the degree of damage these children have sustained, whether that damage will be…
Descriptors: Alcohol Abuse, Child Health, Child Welfare, Crack
Handler, Joel F., Ed.; Zatz, Julie, Ed. – 1982
This report contains the results of a 3-year study sponsored by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, whose purpose was to assess what has been happening to youth who commit status offenses (truants, runaways, incorrigibles), in the aftermath of the 1974 Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act. The book reviews and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Welfare, Delinquency Prevention, Delinquent Rehabilitation
Larner, Mary, Ed.; And Others – 1992
In the early 1980s, the Ford Foundation launched a grants program called Child Survival/A Fair Start for Children (CS/FS) that addressed issues related to birth and infant health and development among families that were poor and underserved by traditional human services. This book reports on each of seven CS/FS projects, describing the concerns…
Descriptors: Child Health, Child Welfare, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention
Khan, Andrea, Ed.; Greenwood, Laura, Ed. – 2002
These five newsletter issues communicate activities of the Child Rights Information Network (CRIN) and report on information resources and world-wide activities concerning children and child rights. The March 2000 issue focuses on children's right to education, assessing the matter form a range of differing perspectives, at international and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Case Studies, Child Advocacy, Child Labor
Sinanoglu, Paula A., Ed.; Maluccio, Anthony N., Ed. – 1981
Addressed primarily to direct service personnel and others interested in direct work with parents, this book includes a collection of articles reflecting different perspectives on and approaches to parents involved with the foster care system. Following introductory chapters which examine the emerging focus of interest on parents of children in…
Descriptors: Adoption, American Indians, Biological Parents, Burnout
Chicago Univ., IL. Chapin Hall Center for Children. – 2000
This report is the third to document the condition of children in the state of Illinois and the performance of the policies and programs designed to serve them over the past decade. One of the main themes emerging from the findings is the increasing diversity of the Illinois child population, in terms of both racial and ethnic groups and the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Child Abuse, Child Health, Child Neglect
