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Redmond, Cleve; Spoth, Richard L.; Shin, Chungyeol; Schainker, Lisa M.; Greenberg, Mark T.; Feinberg, Mark – Journal of Primary Prevention, 2009
It is becoming increasingly common for community teams or coalitions to implement programming for children and families designed to promote positive youth development and prevent adolescent problem behaviors. However, there has been only limited rigorous study of the effectiveness of community teams' programming efforts to produce positive…
Descriptors: Intervention, Adolescents, Rural Areas, Technical Assistance
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Brenner, Viktor; Nicholson, Bonnie C.; Fox, Robert A. – Early Child Development and Care, 1999
Evaluated effectiveness of a cognitive-behavioral parenting program for parents of children ages 1 to 5 years offered through community-based family resource centers. Found that participants showed significant decreases in use of verbal and corporal punishment, and increases in nurturing behaviors as measured by the Parent Behavior Checklist.…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Child Behavior, Community Programs, Community Services
Panico, Ambrose – Reaching Today's Youth: The Community Circle of Caring Journal, 1998
Experience with one young man in a school for troubled adolescents helps author understand how the application of voluntarism could help initiate troubled adolescents into a community of learners and empower them to take control of their lives. Describes the school's successful venture teaming up with Habitat for Humanity to provide work…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Case Studies, Community Programs