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Direct linkOlsen, Sue; Fiechtl, Barbara; Rule, Sarah – Volta Review, 2012
The provision of consistent high quality home- and community-based services to children with disabilities living in rural and frontier areas is a challenge. Distance, weather, geographic terrain (mountains, canyons), and shortages of pediatric early interventionists are among the challenges to ensuring appropriate and equitable services.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Intervention, Videoconferencing, Delivery Systems
Download full textKoralek, Robin; Johnson, Heidi; Ratcliffe, Caroline; Vericker, Tracy – Urban Institute (NJ1), 2010
This report presents the final results for the evaluation of the New Americans Centers (NACs) demonstration project in Arkansas and Iowa. It focuses on program operations and plans for program sustainability, while highlighting services provided through the demonstration projects in Arkansas and Iowa. It also documents outcomes for New Iowan…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Demonstration Programs, Job Training, Career Centers
Peer reviewedGoss, Stephen; Mearns, Dave – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 1997
Outlines the method, findings, and philosophical approach taken in a 22-month evaluation of an Employee Assistance Program. The program offered free counseling sessions, telephone support, in-service training, and conciliation work. Using an integrated pluralist evaluation, found that clients reported high satisfaction. Reduced absenteeism…
Descriptors: Client Attitudes (Human Services), Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Services, Employee Absenteeism
Peer reviewedFriesen, John D. – Family Relations, 1983
Identifies and elaborates several programs in British Columbia which have been designed to strengthen the family. The programs are evaluated to assess their impact on family health. Some forces in education which have affected the family-school partnership are also analyzed. (JAC)
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Family Life, Foreign Countries, Human Services
Altman, Ellyn – 1981
The demands by applicants for prompt emergency services and by funding sources for greater accountability along with long waiting lists resulted in the formation of a crisis unit offering brief psychotherapy in a problem-solving framework. The services focused on: (1) the presenting problem as it reflected a core conflict or longstanding life…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Comparative Analysis, Counseling Techniques, Crisis Intervention
Kisker, Ellen Eliason; Love, John M.; Raikes, Helen – 1999
The first of a 3-volume series describing the 17 Early Head Start (EHS) programs in fall 1997, this report discusses the main features of the research programs and identifies the key challenges and successes they experienced during their first year of serving families. Chapter 1 of the report discusses the historical and national context of the…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Change Strategies, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Early Intervention
Oshinsky, Carole J., Ed. – The Forum, 2002
This document contains 16 issues of the first 5 years of a newsletter encouraging collaborative research and informed policy on welfare reform and focusing on the use of an on-line database of child welfare research projects, as well as research and policy issues related to implementation studies, indicators of well-being, and administrative data.…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Child Caregivers, Child Welfare, Children
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. – 2002
The following were examined: (1) the Department of Transportation's (DOT) efforts to evaluate the Job Access and Reverse Commute (Job Access) program; (2) transportation and related services provided by Job Access; (3) whether the program fosters collaboration between grantees and others in the design, financing, and delivery of those services;…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Agency Cooperation, Block Grants
