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Hanline, Mary Frances; Deppe, Janet – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1990
Discharging the premature infant from the hospital calls for provision of support to families in such areas as capitalizing on family strengths and resources, empowering parents to make informed decisions, creating opportunities for parent-to-parent contact, focusing intervention goals on parent-identified needs, and providing services to families…
Descriptors: Chronic Illness, Family Caregivers, Family Programs, Hospitalized Children

Horn, Wade F. – Children Today, 1990
Presents an overview of the challenges and initiatives that will influence expansion of the Head Start program. These include state Head Start collaborative projects, social services, Job Opportunities and Basic Skills (JOBS) programs for parents, research, adult literacy, and children's transition to public schools. (BB)
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Family Programs, Preschool Children, Preschool Education

Bruder, Mary Beth; Walker, Linda – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1990
Research pointing to the need for routine support and followup for families with infants leaving Neonatal Intensive Care Units is described. A discharge planning process is then recommended, involving assessing the infant's needs, family functioning, family needs, and cultural considerations and linking families with community services. (JDD)
Descriptors: Chronic Illness, Evaluation Methods, Family Programs, Health Services

Nelson, Krista M. – Child Welfare, 1992
Describes a program based in St. Paul, Minnesota, which provides whole-family foster care for a population of adult parents and minor children without stable residences, in which the children are at risk of placement in out-of-home care. (HTH)
Descriptors: Crisis Intervention, Family Characteristics, Family Environment, Family Financial Resources
Hellerich-Tuttle, Linda; And Others – 1996
Transition projects have emerged to address Head Start fade-out effects, that is, the disappearance of gains made by Head Start program children by the third grade. The Nebraska Transition Project is one of 31 across the United States providing Head Start-like services to families with children in public elementary school, kindergarten through…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Early Childhood Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Programs
Look at Even Start, 1995
Even Start is a family support program focusing on family literacy and school readiness. These first seven issues of the "Look at Even Start" newsletter cover topics such as transition between preschool and kindergarten, collaboration between programs and between parents and programs, ways Even Start programs respond to parents' needs…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Change, Family Literacy, Family Programs
Allen, Sharon M.; And Others – 1996
Project Head Start has recently expanded into elementary schools through the National Head Start/Public School Transition Project (NTP), a school-based intervention program designed to improve outcomes for at-risk students. The SDTP (South Dakota site of NTP) is attempting to improve life chances for children by improving home and school…
Descriptors: Child Health, Developmentally Appropriate Practices, Early Childhood Education, Educational Environment
Brown, Jason D.; Moraes, Sabrina; Mayhew, Janet – Journal of Child and Family Studies, 2005
We examined the service needs of foster families with children who have disabilities. Foster parents in a large Canadian city were asked "What services or supports would be helpful to you?" The responses to this question were edited for clarity and to eliminate redundancies, and sorted into piles of like statements by a group of 15…
Descriptors: Medical Services, Statistical Analysis, Financial Support, Social Work