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Taylor, Kenneth I. – Child Welfare, 2005
Matching Needs and Services (MNS) is a practice tool intended to help people who work with vulnerable children use rigorously assembled information on needs as a guide to design, implement, and evaluate more-effective services. To do this, MNS focuses on needs but links them to outcomes and thresholds before dealing with the services to achieve…
Descriptors: Community Needs, Children, Needs Assessment, Program Development
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Krymow, Virginia La Falce – Child Welfare, 1979
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Essays
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Van Leeuwen, Jamie – Child Welfare, 2004
This article features three housing programs designed to target the needs of youth aging out of child welfare. One program combines housing and treatment to move substance-dependent youth off the streets; one combines the resources of Urban Peak, the only licensed homeless and runaway youth shelter in Colorado, with the Denver Department of Human…
Descriptors: Program Development, Costs, Runaways, Private Sector
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Zamoff, Richard B.; Lyle, Jerolyn R. – Child Welfare, 1973
This paper sorts out the kinds of information policy makers need at the community level, suggests ways to acquire kinds of information especially relevant and difficult to obtain, and indicates the range of options open to communities in developing day care programs. (Author)
Descriptors: Day Care, Educational Research, Employed Women, Information Needs
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Pierce, William L. – Child Welfare, 1971
A combination of many factors indicates that during this decade the number of children requiring day care will increase enormously. Planning the expansion of day care services to meet this need involves public policy decisions on several fronts--welfare, manpower, education--with possibilities of great benefit or loss to society. (Author/WY)
Descriptors: Business, Day Care, Educational Needs, Employed Women
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Fanshel, David – Child Welfare, 1979
A review of the current status of children who were placed in foster care in New York City as infants or as preschool children. Emphasizes the need to stress plans for permanency. A supplement on data from upstate New York is appended. (BD)
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Followup Studies, Foster Children
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Delgado, Melvin – Child Welfare, 1979
Describes a needs assessment model which can be used by grass-roots organizations to collect socioeconomic and demographic data in Hispanic and other ethnic-minority communities. (CM)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Minority Groups, Models, Needs Assessment
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Corder, Billie F.; And Others – Child Welfare, 1981
A survey of parents, foster parents, and guardians whose children were group home residents indicated the need for programs with different levels of parent involvement. Written contracts between houseparents and children's parents are recommended. (Author/DB)
Descriptors: Adults, Child Caregivers, Group Homes, Needs Assessment
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Berberet, Heather M. – Child Welfare, 2006
Needs assessments require staff with the necessary expertise to design the study, collect the data, analyze the data, and present results. They require money, time, and persistence, because the people one wishes to assess often are difficult to access. This article argues for the centrality of a well-done needs assessment when developing services…
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Needs Assessment, Program Development, Evaluation Methods
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Danzy, Julia – Child Welfare, 1996
Describes the experience of the Philadelphia Kinship Care Task Force's collaborative process between political, public, and private communities to respond to the emergence of kinship care. Describes the achievements including a national summit, initiation of dialog on policy and program aspects, and formation of legislative and administrative…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Caregivers, Child Custody, Child Rearing
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Ingram, Charlene – Child Welfare, 1996
Highlights the key issues in kinship care and discusses them as they relate to agency structure for kinship family support in the public child welfare system. Examines concerns for future planning, including meeting regulations, monitoring, and development of permanent plans, and explores implications for policy and practice. (Author/SD)
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Custody, Child Rearing, Child Support