A study program leading to masters' degrees for child care administrators is especially designed to match their needs in terms of education and ongoing job responsibilities. (Author/SE)

A child care agency has developed a career ladder to make the child care position more attractive to young people. As another step toward professionalization of the child care field, it could serve as a model for other agencies. (GO)

Report of a pilot project that trained 542 unemployed or underemployed persons in 5 cities to become child care workers. Discusses rewards and problems of the project. (DR)

Investigated two main areas: (1) tasks performed by child care workers, group home houseparents, and social workers working in group child care; and (2) knowledge of specific domains (e.g. nutrition, behavioral theories) relevant to performance of those tasks. Results are considered germane to staff training programs, job descriptions, and program…

The concept and the role of the group in the residential treatment of adolescents are delineated in this article. Approaches and techniques that facilitate the task of the group leader in making group experience a successful therapeutic instrument are examined. (Author)

Identified factors related to the recruitment, training, and retention of family child care (FCC) providers in two rural communities who participated in an FCC training program. Findings point to the relative success of efforts to recruit and train high quality family child care providers and the relative difficulty of retaining these providers…