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Focal Point, 1988
The newsletter offers perspectives on the provision of family support services for families with disabled members. An introductory article by Madeleine Will, Assistant Secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, stresses the impressive coping skills exhibited by many such families and their relationship to service professionals.…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Coping, Disabilities, Family Problems
Download full textReed, Juanita J.; Carlson, Wayne E. – 1987
This document presents a guide to help 4-H Club leaders understand the stresses afffecting club members and work to strengthen individual and family coping skills. Economic, social, political, and psychological changes which may have a profound impact on rural and farm families are cited as sources of stress. Leaders are provided with a framework…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Community Programs, Coping
Johnson, Bassin, and Shaw, Inc., Silver Spring, MD. – 1997
This paper suggests that research has shown that street youth are running from homes characterized by domestic violence, parental drug and alcohol abuse, or child abuse or neglect. This packet describes federal support for helping runaway and homeless youth and reviews implementation of the "Street Outreach Program" and best practices.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Community Programs, Coping
Kohut, Nester C. – 1979
Family conservation is a new approach for strengthening nuclear families on a system level. The family communiversity is an agency developed to effect that approach. A discussion of family conservation on the systems level concerns the need for coping with those forces detrimental to families. The objective of family conservation is to maximize…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Coping, Delivery Systems, Divorce
New York State Commission on Quality of Care for the Mentally Disabled, Albany. – 1993
This report describes eight programs funded by the New York State Developmental Disabilities Council to provide training and assistance to parents who are developmentally disabled. The report is based on review of program and client records and interviews with directors, staff, and enrolled families. The first chapter provides an introduction to…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Child Rearing, Community Programs, Community Services
New York State Commission on Quality of Care for the Mentally Disabled, Albany. – 1993
This report provides basic information about parents with significant intellectual impairments and/or developmental disabilities and the programs and services in their communities designed to assist them. The report is based on reviews of 8 demonstration programs in New York State, record reviews, interviews with 41 enrolled families, and home…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Child Rearing, Community Programs, Community Services
