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Carvalho, Julie – Children Today, 1982
Offers guidelines for providing day care services for children who accompany their parents to conferences. Costs, planning, location, insurance, center activities, staff, safety and health, food, equipment and supplies, publicity and preregistration, parents' roles, and evaluation and replanning are briefly discussed. Recommendations are included.…
Descriptors: Conferences, Day Care, Guidelines, Program Development
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Reece, Carolyn – Children Today, 1982
Describes the development and implementation of a day care center for children of the nursing and technical staff employed at the Mount Vernon Hospital in Alexandria, Virginia. (RH)
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Employer Supported Day Care, Hospitals, Program Descriptions
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Triplett, Betty; And Others – Children Today, 1986
Examines the changes initiated to reorient Kentucky's child welfare system to a family prevention model; this includes an examination of the model's goals, the implementation of the model, training of the staff, problems encountered by the initiation of the new model, and an evaluation of the model. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Adoption, Child Welfare, Family Programs, Foster Care
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McDonnell, Tessa; Federer, Suzanne – Children Today, 1982
Describes development, objectives, program content, and evaluation of a model for training New Hampshire family day care providers. (MP)
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Early Childhood Education, Family Day Care, Models
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Karp, Naomi; Bradley, Valerie – Children Today, 1991
Summarizes the beginnings of family support programs for developmentally disabled children and their families; their present workings; and the direction they should be going. (BB)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Children, Developmental Disabilities, Family Programs
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Dunn, Linda – Children Today, 1981
Describes steps taken to recruit Blacks to adopt Black children in foster care. Procedures included establishing an advisory committee, educating the public about adoption, and obtaining the involvement and cooperation of local government and community action organizations. (DB)
Descriptors: Adoption, Black Youth, Foster Family, Government Role
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Jourdan, Jeanne – Children Today, 1994
Describes the development and implementation of the "This Is My Neighborhood: No Shooting Allowed" teenage violence prevention program in South Bend, Indiana. The program is designed to increase community awareness of gun violence, increase neighborhood pride, deglamourize guns, and educate children about the criminal justice system.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Community Programs, Conflict Resolution
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Pond, Elizabeth F.; Gilbert, Charlotte M. – Children Today, 1987
Describes the development of a parents' support group in Augusta, Georgia which offers parents of hyperactive and Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) children an opportunity to share experiences and explore problem-solving strategies for coping with and managing their children. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Helping Relationship, Hyperactivity, Parent Associations
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Gelber, Seymour – Children Today, 1988
Examines what is being done and what more must be done in terms of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome) testing, screening, counseling. Discusses education about AIDS for young people in juvenile detention centers, penal institutions, and residential rehabilitation programs. Dade County Juvenile Detention Center (Florida) exemplifies…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adolescents, Correctional Education, Correctional Institutions
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Bryant, Johannah – Children Today, 1988
Discusses the development of the Family Preservation Project in Kansas, in particular its community meetings, advisory boards, endorsements from statewide professional organizations, and statewide conferences. The project is designed to provide intensive in-home services to families and children at-risk of being separated. (BB)
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Agency Cooperation, Child Advocacy, Community Coordination
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Behar, Lenore – Children Today, 1986
Discusses the development and preliminary evaluation of an experimental statewide system of services in North Carolina for seriously behaviorally/emotionally disturbed adolescents. The program successfully provides these youngsters with appropriate treatment, education, training, and care suited to their individual needs, including community-based…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Disorders, Case Studies, Children
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Lyons, Charles W. – Children Today, 1986
Describes a successful intergenerational program resulting from the collaboration of agencies in Pennsylvania which work with senior citizens and young children. Agencies provided training and support for the cooperatively developed project. (HOD)
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Day Care Centers, Early Childhood Education, Intergenerational Programs