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Pecora, Peter J., Ed.; Seelig, William R., Ed.; Zirps, Fotena A., Ed.; Davis, Sally M., Ed. – 1996
Based on the work of the National Council on Research in Child Welfare (NCRCW), this handbook is designed to help social service agency executives cope with changing times for child welfare agencies, strengthen traditional services to meet today's needs, and analyze and plan for the future. The manual aims to demystify quality improvement theory…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Welfare, Program Administration, Program Development
Ambrosino, Robert J. – 1982
This user's manual, designed to meet the needs of adoption exchange administrators and program managers for a formal tool to assist them in the overall management and operation of their program, presents the Model Adoption Exchange Payment System (MAEPS), which was developed to improve the delivery of adoption exchange services throughout the…
Descriptors: Adoption, Child Welfare, Delivery Systems, Models
Grasso, Anthony J., Ed.; Epstein, Irwin, Ed. – 1993
This book describes Boysville's 5-year effort to design, implement, and evaluate an agency-based computerized management information, program evaluation, and clinical decision-making system, BOMIS (Boysville Management Information System). The goal of BOMIS is the integration of the four intervention programs, through the collection, analysis,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Welfare, Computer Software Development, Family Programs
Stone, Helen D.; Hunzeker, Jeanne M. – 1974
Agencies and foster parents can use the framework provided in this handbook to prepare their own handbook and establish clear roles and expectations for persons involved in providing foster family care. The handbook is meant to be a reference guide, not to offer solutions to problems or answer policy questions. A list of suggested topics for a…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Child Welfare, Community Resources, Contracts
Young, Mary Eming – 1999
Early childhood programs have been shown to enhance school readiness, increase the efficacy of investments in primary schools and human capital formation, foster beneficial social behavior and, thereby, lessen social welfare costs, and promote community development. The World Bank has directed investment toward young children, including supporting…
Descriptors: Activism, Child Development, Child Health, Child Welfare
Young, Mary Eming – 1999
Early childhood programs have been shown to enhance school readiness, increase the efficacy of investments in primary schools and human capital formation, foster beneficial social behavior and, thereby, lessen social welfare costs, and promote community development. The World Bank has directed investment toward young children, including supporting…
Descriptors: Activism, Child Development, Child Health, Child Welfare
Young, Mary Eming – 1996
Early childhood programs have been shown to enhance school readiness, increase the efficacy of investments in primary schools and human capital formation, foster beneficial social behavior and, thereby, lessen social welfare costs, and promote community development. The World Bank has directed investment toward young children, including supporting…
Descriptors: Activism, Child Development, Child Health, Child Welfare