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Jaklitsch, Barbara; Barry, Frank – Children Today, 1990
Describes a joint training program whose goals are to provide training for those who work with maltreated adolescents; to clarify agency roles with regard to this population; and to facilitate coordination among agencies that serve youths. (PCB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Agency Role, Child Abuse

Horel, Lisa – Children Today, 1987
Describes how a family community center in Milton, Vermont provides the "base" where rural families, formerly isolated from both agencies and each other by geography and economics, can gather and receive a variety of services under one roof. The program is illustrated with a case study. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Family Problems, Family Programs

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

Murphy, Dorothy A. – Children Today, 1976
Describes and discusses the results of a class for parents of children in foster care. Foster care from the natural parent's viewpoint is presented. (SB)
Descriptors: Foster Children, Parent Grievances, Parents, Program Descriptions

Nash, Arlene L. – Children Today, 1974
Examined in this article are the operations and philosophy of ARENA (Adoption Resource Exchange of North America), a clearinghouse organized and operated by the Child Welfare League of America to help agencies find homes for their hard-to-place children. (CS)
Descriptors: Adoption (Ideas), Cooperative Planning, Program Descriptions, State Programs

Yost, Diane M.; And Others – Children Today, 1988
Discusses the Medical Foster Parent Program of the Children's Home and Aid Society of Illinois and La Rabida Children's Hospital and Research Center in Chicago. The program provides foster care for seriously ill children who are wards of the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services who would benefit from staying outside of a hospital.…
Descriptors: Chronic Illness, Foster Care, Hospitalized Children, Program Descriptions

Middelstadt, Evelyn – Children Today, 1977
Reports on adoption placement services for older children provided by the Lutheran Social Service of Kansas and Oklahoma. (SB)
Descriptors: Adoption, Child Welfare, Elementary Secondary Education, Parent Participation

Stehno, Sandra M. – Children Today, 1987
Describes Kaleidoscope's Youth Development Program in Illinois, which offers a variety of services to help youths who are "aging out" of foster care programs to learn to live on their own in the community. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foster Care, Placement, Program Descriptions

Tatara, Toshio; And Others – Children Today, 1986
Describes a family-based program in Philadelphia, the Supportive Child Adult Network (SCAN), which offers a wide range of treatment approaches to strengthen high risk families. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Family Programs

Niedz, Barbara J.; Simpson, Gregory M. – Children Today, 1975
Introduces and defines the concept of the resource family in residential treatment of emotionally disturbed children; offers suggestions for implementing the concept under an agency structure; and describes the experiences of one agency which uses this approach. (ED)
Descriptors: Agency Role, Emotional Disturbances, Family Programs, Handicapped Children

Matheson, Alastair – Children Today, 1974
Developed as a program to help protect family life and children, the Colombian Institute for Family Well-being operates as a "Ministry for Children," providing a variety of medical, psychological, and educational services. (CS)
Descriptors: Agency Role, Child Care, Comprehensive Programs, Family Programs

Polk, Sophie – Children Today, 1987
Describes the Ikaiyurluki Mikelnguut (Helping Our Children) project in the Yukon Kuskokwim Delta of Alaska where trained natural helpers are helping Yup'ik Eskimo villagers to cope with crisis situations--notably teenage suicide and drug and alcohol abuse. (Author/BB)
Descriptors: Alaska Natives, Community Involvement, Crisis Intervention, Helping Relationship

Rowe, Patricia – Children Today, 1994
Describes features of the federal-state Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS) Program for teenage parents. JOBS Program strategies focus on teenage parent identification, financial incentives, enriched educational services, strong case management, networks with community agencies, and a commitment to responsibility by teenage parents.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Demonstration Programs, Early Parenthood

Burt, Marvin R. – Children Today, 1976
Offers a description and evaluation of the Comprehensive Emergency Services System (Nashville, Tenn.) for children in crises, designed to coordinate public and private agency services provided to neglected, abused and dependent children, to develop new service options, and expand existing program components within the Department of Public Welfare.…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Child Abuse, Child Welfare

Frieman, Barry B. – Children Today, 1995
Profiles the parenting seminars and counseling services for divorcing parents offered by the Children of Separation and Divorce Center, a community service agency in Maryland. The seminars are designed to help parents adjust to divorce and understand the needs of their children during and after the divorce process. (MDM)
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Counseling Services, Divorce, Group Therapy
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