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Download full textNortheast Regional Center for Rural Development, University Park, PA. – 1996
Pathways from Poverty is a public policy education and research initiative organized by the Rural Sociological Society's Task Force on Persistent Rural Poverty and the four regional rural development centers. This publication focuses on project efforts in the Northeast and includes three sections. The first section describes the Pathways from…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Education, Community Services, Educational Opportunities
Family Resource Coalition, Chicago, IL. – 1990
Family support and education programs are community-based efforts that offer sustained assistance to families at various periods in their development. Support is provided to promote parental competencies and behavior that lead to healthy and positive development of parents and children. These programs take many forms, such as drop-in centers,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Programs, Family Programs, Family (Sociological Unit)
Maas, Frank, Ed.; Sach, Susan, Ed. – 1984
This publication is an edited record of a series of public seminars held between June and October of 1983. The seminars, entitled "Community Based Services for Children and Families," were based on two policy background papers commissioned by the Institute of Family Studies (ISF) on the topics of family support and children's services.…
Descriptors: Children, Community Services, Family Life, Family Programs
Delaware Univ., Newark. Cooperative Extension Service. – 1979
These proceedings summarize the important ideas discussed in various workshops of a Delaware forum on the changing nature of the American family. The contents include an opening statement by the Governor of Delaware; a transcript of a panel discussion of lobbying and obtaining grants and other types of funding; a brief address from a…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Rearing, Day Care, Family Problems
Peck, Magda G., Ed. – 1994
This report contains selected presentations from the 1993 Urban Maternal and Child Health Leadership Conference. Following welcoming remarks by Carolyn Slack, two presentations discuss improving urban maternal and child health (MCH) linkages. "Pittsburgh's Alliance for Infants," by Virginia Bowman, describes a comprehensive in-home…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Child Health
Gallagher, James J., Ed.; Fullager, Patricia K., Ed. – 1992
This paper reports on a symposium of experts in child and family development and health care which met to discuss integrated systems of services. The symposium was part of the Carolina Policy Studies Program which is addressing policy implementation of Part H of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). The paper notes IDEA's…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Change Strategies, Child Development, Delivery Systems
American Association of Retired Persons, Washington, DC. – 1989
Part I of this publication contains a background paper, "The Health and Socioeconomic Situation of Midlife and Older Women in Latin America and the Caribbean" (Sennott-Miller). Part II includes and introduction and the following presentations: "Opening Statement" (Crooks); "Empowering Older Women: An Agenda for the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Aging (Individuals), Chronic Illness
