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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 2020
Childhood is an important time for healthy development and learning, and for establishing the foundation blocks of future wellbeing, but it is also a time of vulnerability. While a positive start in life helps children to reach their full potential, a poor start increases the chances of adverse outcomes for the individual, society and possibly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Family (Sociological Unit), Child Health
Wiggins, Afi Y. – Online Submission, 2015
The purpose of the High School Exit Survey was to monitor high school seniors' perception of their high school experiences. Results are used to improve the campus environment and program supports for students. Survey results also are used in the monitoring of the district's strategic plan Goal 3: All students will graduate ready for college,…
Descriptors: High School Seniors, Student Attitudes, Social Support Groups, Academic Aspiration
Sipe, Cynthia L.; Ma, Patricia; Gambone, Michelle Alberti – 1998
This report provides a detailed picture of how youth aged 12 to 20 in three American neighborhoods--Austin (Texas), St. Petersburg (Florida), and Savannah (Georgia)--spend their nonschool time and the amount and level of the basic "vitamins" of support from adults and institutions that they receive. The three neighborhoods are the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Inner City, Social Support Groups
Koroloff, Nancy – 1991
This report describes four demonstration projects, funded from July 1989 to December 1990 in Oregon, on early identification and prevention of mental and emotional disorders in children. The intention of the projects was to find ways to identify children at risk of suffering emotional disorders and to intervene early enough to prevent these…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Rearing, Children, Early Childhood Education
Hawaii Univ., Manoa. Center on the Family. – 1999
This report examines trends in the well-being of Hawaii's families during the 1990s. Section 1 provides an overview of several demographic characteristics of Hawaii's families, including mean age at first marriage, percent of marriages involving spouses of different ethnicity, percent of families with more than two generations in household,…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Attendance, Children, Chronic Illness
Mallory, Joyce – 2002
As part of the mission of the Start Smart, Stay Smart Milwaukee program to ensure that all Milwaukee area children enter school with the skills necessary for academic achievement and a lifetime of growth and development, the organization is tracking key indicators across the years of growth and development to young adulthood to better assess the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Attendance, Birth Weight