Purpose: Stigma and lack of access to providers create barriers to mental health treatment for older adults living in the community. In order to address these barriers, we developed and evaluated a peer support intervention for older adults receiving Medicaid services. Design and Methods: Reclaiming Joy is a mental health intervention that pairs…

Communities In Schools, Inc. (CIS) is a nationwide initiative designed to connect needed community resources with schools to help students, particularly those identified as at-risk, successfully learn, stay in school, and prepare for life. As part of a comprehensive 5-year national evaluation of CIS, ICF International conducted a school-level…

High-quality care in the earliest years of life has been shown to relate to positive developmental outcomes for children, including improved early academic skills, social-emotional competencies, and cognitive functioning. Unfortunately, the early care experiences of many children are not always high quality; rather, research suggests that…

Presents a model of treatment in which a family therapist is partnered with a community member whom is called a community resource specialist (CRS). Reports on an evaluation of the model in the treatment of adolescents with behavioral problems. (Contains 11 references.) (Author/GCP)

The final report details activities of a 3-year child abuse and neglect program which provided community and professional education about child abuse as well as treatment services (individual counselinq, crisis intervention, medical care, and homemaking services). Implementation pproblems and operation issues (including staff turnover and the use…

Sprague High School's program to train career education resource teachers was designed to recruit and prepare approximately 15 individuals from business, industry, and the professions who would provide exploratory career experiences and information to students. A four-page outline covers the program's objectives, procedures, a third party…

In this component of the evaluation, the Circles of Care grantees assessed the feasibility of their model systems of care. The goal of the Feasibility Assessment was to assure that each model system of care was well designed with careful consideration of project goals, community resources and readiness, cultural competence and measurable outcomes.

The final report documents activities of a 3-year child abuse and neglect demonstration unit in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. The history of the project is reviewed along with the following project components: organization/staffing, case identification, coordination, community education, professional development, case management, research and evaluation,…

Under Title 3 of the Older Americans Act of 1965, as amended, state and area agencies on aging are required to provide for the establishment or maintenance of information and referral services in sufficient numbers to assure that all older persons in the state or within a planning and service area will have reasonably convenient access to such…

This is the first volume of the final report of the Information and Referral Center Study, which was funded by the Administration on Aging, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The overall project objective, as stated in the initial grant application, was "to facilitate the development of a more useful, effective, and comprehensive system…

Reported are results of a (1974-75) project in a New Hampshire school district which assessed the vocational needs of handicapped children in that district, the potential for their employment in the community, and the school potential for vocational programs. Provided is information such as the number of children by handicaps and present status…

This report evaluates a three-year-demonstration program in child advocacy, created as part of existing Head Start Parent-Child Centers to meet the needs of children under 5 and their families. Local services were integrated and new services created in a variety of areas (health, housing, education and welfare) using a primarily paraprofessional…

The study was undertaken to investigate the post high school status of 76 mildly retarded graduates (1974-78) of the work/study programs of the eastern and central zones of the Heartland Area Education Agency. Interviews of the Ss yielded data which were analyzed in four main categories: social adjustment, community resources, vocational…

The Cooperative Leadership for Urban Education (CLUE) program, funded under Title III of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act, tries to find a way of working with students in grades 5-9 that will get them vitally interested and involved in learning, that will develop in them genuine specific skills for continued learning, and that will…

Project Cooperative Leadership for Urban Education (CLUE), launched in December 1969, funded under Title III of the Elementary Secondary Education Act, uses such cooperative strategies as the Jobs-Alike Work Conference, The Design for Materials Sharing, and The Inter-City Program Transplant. The program goals of the Memphis component were to…