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Gowen, Rebecca P., Ed. – 1984
These proceedings were published to interpret and disseminate research findings to operational personnel working with juvenile repeat offenders; to share information among researchers and practitioners regarding prevention, intervention, and treatment program models and strategies for juvenile repeat offenders; to explore the impact of juvenile…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delinquency, Delinquency Prevention, Delinquent Rehabilitation
Centers for Disease Control (DHHS/PHS), Atlanta, GA. – 1983
This report reviews, recounts, and assesses the accomplishments and progress made to date by many public health professionals engaged collectively in a nationwide health education-risk reduction program. Papers are presented outlining progress by health agencies, working alone or in collaboration, whose basic goals were: (1) inventory of statewide…
Descriptors: Cooperative Planning, Drug Abuse, Government Role, Health Education
Bredekamp, Sue; And Others – 1989
This collection of conference materials presents papers on the following topics: (1) approaches and targeting; (2) the BABES Substance Abuse Prevention Program for Children; (3) a prekindergarten substance abuse prevention education curriculum; (4) a parent-oriented, pilot Head Start primary prevention, drug education project; (5) evaluation…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Drug Abuse, Early Childhood Education, Information Dissemination
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Szanton, Eleanor S. – Children Today, 1980
This article summarizes presentations made at a training institute on clinical approaches to infants and their families. Topics included assessment techniques, intervention approaches, outcome studies, and treatment modalities. Emphasis was placed on integrating emotional, cognitive, and social lines of development. (DB)
Descriptors: Clinical Diagnosis, Development, Infants, Intervention
Birch & Davis Associates, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1984
This report on the second National Conference for Youth on Drinking and Driving focuses on the potential of the workplace as a site for the prevention of teenage alcohol abuse, with a special emphasis on drinking and driving. Features of the conference are described which may be of interest to employers of youth, youth specialists, and alcohol…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcoholic Beverages, Business Responsibility, Drinking
Easter Seal Research Inst., Don Mills (Ontario). – 1988
The conference reported in this document utilized a conceptual matrix to organize presentations on research priorities in prevention, definitive treatment, and ongoing management of impairment, disability, and handicap. Ten research strategy recommendations developed at the conference are offered for implementation by The Easter Seal Research…
Descriptors: Cerebral Palsy, Communication Aids (for Disabled), Epidemiology, Intervention
Matlins, Stuart M.; And Others – 1981
This monograph, the product of a symposium about the provision of services to children of alcoholics, contains chapters concentrating on identification, intervention, treatment, and prevention. These concepts are delineated in terms of the needs of children of alcoholics, with a particular emphasis on barriers that inhibit the therapy process and…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Children, Counseling Services, Delivery Systems
McHale, George – 1990
This report summarizes the findings of a national conference on mentoring. Mentoring involves a structured relationship between two people, with the first imparting support, insight, and experience to the second. The following varieties of mentoring are discussed: (1) mentoring from the business community; (2) career mentoring within specific…
Descriptors: Dropout Prevention, Dropout Programs, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education
National Institutes of Health (DHHS), Bethesda, MD. – 1990
This report is the product of a National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference on Noise and Hearing Loss which addressed the characteristics of noise-induced hearing loss, acoustic parameters of hazardous noise exposure, individual and age-specific susceptibility, and prevention strategies. The report examines the incidence of…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Clinical Diagnosis, Environmental Influences, Hearing Impairments
McBeath, Marcia; And Others – 1983
These symposium papers describe the Fresh Start Minischool, a high school dropout prevention program in Washington, DC. The first paper, by Marcia McBeath, describes the program participants and the quantitative results of a 3-year study of the program. Data are presented on selection procedures, yearly group compositions, measures of self-esteem,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Counseling Techniques, Dropout Prevention, High School Students
Bumbarger, Brian, Ed. – 1996
As far back as the 1960s, research and statistics began to demonstrate what appeared to be an inequality in the criminal justice system in that minorities, particularly black males, were being arrested and confined in numbers far greater than their proportion to the general population. The Coalition for Juvenile Justice, in conjunction with…
Descriptors: Blacks, Correctional Institutions, Cultural Awareness, Delinquency
Carroll, Claudia A., Ed.; Gottlieb, Bruce, Ed. – 1983
This publication presents papers from a 1982 child sexual abuse conference sponsored by the Colorado State Department of Social Services, designed to identify major issues and trends and to stimulate the exchange of perspectives and practices among persons concerned about preventing and treating child sexual abuse. The first section of the…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Children, County Programs, Court Litigation
Morse, Susan – 1989
This document reports on the Migrant Education Secondary Assistance Project's third and final outreach meeting, conducted in conjunction with the National Migrant Education Conference attended by migrant educators from across the nation. These educators have identified effective preventative strategies such as the elimination of grade retention,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Dropout Prevention, Educational Innovation, High Risk Students
Boud, D. J., Ed.; de Rome, E. A., Ed. – 1980
Proceedings of a 1980 conference in Australia on the problems of first-year students, which focus on student discontinuation, are presented. The contents include three papers, discussion group reports, and a report on the outcome of the discussion groups, policy proposals, and recommendations. In "First Year Students: Selection and…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Articulation (Education), College Freshmen, College Preparation
Massey, Oliver T.; Telleen, Sharon; Kim, Young O. Rhee; Stewart-Nava, Helen; Maher, Susan; Boroughs, Michael; Henson, Kelli S.; Armstrong, Kathleen H.; Santoro, Gina; Perry, Angela – 2002
This document is comprised of summaries of six papers presented at a symposium on the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative, a federal grant to school districts intended to promote health and safety in schools and communities. The Initiative was designed to confront school violence, safety, and mental health needs through the provision of a…
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Grants, Intervention, Longitudinal Studies
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