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Isaacs, Serena Ann; Roman, Nicolette; Carlson, Shantay – Child Care in Practice, 2020
Theoretically, increasing family resilience, may contribute to an increase the resilience of communities. However families in South Africa experience challenges to their resilience, often owing to a variety of historic, socio-economic, and political factors. Research and intervention planning that attempts to ameliorate the effects these factors,…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Foreign Countries, Intervention, Family Programs
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Tellez, Kip; Waxman, Hersh C. – School Community Journal, 2010
This article synthesized current research on effective communities for English Language Learners (ELLs). The findings are discussed under the following categories: parents, community resources, and peers. The results of the review indicate that parenting programs are effective, but they must be carefully developed and often require specific…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Programs, Second Language Learning, Community Resources
Jacobson, Wendy; MacMaster, Pat – 2000
Many communities are rethinking their ideas of mutual support, social economy, and community economic development and are using "Time Dollars" strategies to build on their existing support networks and create a strong and valued social economy. This book provides an introduction to the social capital strategy of Time Dollars and presents…
Descriptors: Community, Community Action, Community Programs, Community Resources
National Association of State Directors of Special Education, Washington, DC. – 1979
The concept and implementation of direction services, a one step center offering assistance to parents of handicapped children, are traced. Three basic functions of the federally funded direction service centers are noted: to help locate and provide access to the most appropriate resources for handicapped children and youth; to collect and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Programs, Community Resources, Community Services
Office of Child Development (DHEW), Washington, DC. – 1973
The Child and Family Resource Program (CFRP) of the Office of Child Development (OCD) is described. CFRP is designed to provide family-oriented, comprehensive services to children from the prenatal period through age 8, according to their individual needs. The program description stresses the use of existing community resources in a linked program…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Development, Community Programs, Community Resources
Iowa Univ., Oakdale. School of Social Work. – 1982
Compiled as a project of the National Resource Center on Family Based Services, this document contains an annotated directory of a representative listing of family-based services existing in 24 of the United States. (Family-based service programs provide humane, quality and cost-efficient services to families in the least restrictive environment,…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Community Resources, Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education
Vermont State Dept. of Education, Montpelier. – 1997
This report provides brief descriptions of a variety of community and educational programs for children and families with special needs, especially at the early childhood level in Vermont. Part 1 describes six programs characterized as community/regional-state partnerships. Part 2 describes family-centered resources, supports, and services,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Programs, Community Resources, Cooperative Programs
Administration for Children, Youth, and Families (DHHS), Washington, DC. Head Start Bureau. – 1992
The social services component of Head Start links family, Head Start, and the community. This document addresses components of Head Start, providing Head Start staff who have social services responsibility with a guide to the provision of services to families. The chapters in the guide are: (1) "Overview of Head Start," including its…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Community, Community Programs, Community Resources
Iowa Kids Count Initiative, Des Moines. – 1995
Two booklets, "A Blueprint for Iowa's Young: Implementation Directions for the Framework Paper," and "Investing in Families, Prevention and School Readiness: Working Draft of a Framework Paper" present a framework for creation of a blueprint for implementation and management of community investment initiatives. The framework is…
Descriptors: Children, Community Programs, Community Resources, Cost Effectiveness
Fugate, Sandy – Winds of Change, 1996
Program at Bay Mills Community College (Michigan) builds leadership skills among American Indian students, develops staff training modules for tribally operated family programs on reservations, and improves college curriculum to meet family and community needs. W. K. Kellogg Foundation funds 10 such projects as part of its Families and…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, College Students
Levesque, Jeri; Hinton, Karen – 2001
This guide is designed to lead program planners through the course of building and implementing a family literacy program. It provides planning teams with an orientation to a four-component model of family literacy, community resources, planning strategies, examples of programs in Missouri, recent research findings, case study vignettes, and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Check Lists, Community Programs
Vanderbilt Univ., Nashville, TN. Peabody Coll., John F. Kennedy Center. – 1993
Proceedings are presented of a conference which addressed services to infants and young children with developmental delays and their families in rural areas. Contents include: results of a survey of 42 respondents regarding rural service delivery; excerpts from Magnolia Circle Outreach Project newsletters; views on problems identified by rural…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, At Risk Persons, Community Programs, Community Resources
Neilson Associates Pty. Ltd., Melbourne (Australia). – 1988
This report recommends a 10-year plan for changes in services to people with intellectual disabilities in Victoria, Australia. Intended key outcomes of the plan include: increases in the numbers of clients receiving direct residential support in community-based accommodations; reductions in numbers of adult clients resident in large scale…
Descriptors: Adoption, Adult Day Care, Community Programs, Community Resources
Aspen Systems Corp., Germantown, MD. – 1981
This Project SHARE bibliography lists 43 documents that are representative of the literature concerning the effects of neighborhood consensus on human services delivery. It is divided into three sections: abstracts, an alphabetical list of personal or corporate authors, and a title index. The abstracts are preceded by citation data to aid in…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Administrator Guides, Annotated Bibliographies, Community Control