This program, in its fifth year of operation, was federally funded under the Refugee Act on a per-capita formula based on the number of New York City students identified as refugees using federal criteria. Because the total sum allocated was too limited to support instruction, funds were used to develop a vocational English as a second language…

The development and evaluation of a peer mentoring program for Chinese immigrant adolescents' cultural adjustment is described. Twenty-three high school students who recently immigrated from Mainland China participated in the year-long program and 4 high school students served as their peer mentors. Data analyses revealed that the students who…

The In-School Staff Workshops project run by Asian-American Communications was evaluated in its fourth year. The project provided various workshops for staff on Asian American and Asian cultures, intercultural communications, and strategies for helping Asian American students adjust to their new social and educational environments. The project…

The study evaluates the effectiveness of two bilingual, non-traditional mental health peer counseling type programs providing services to Southeast Asian refugees in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area. This area has the second highest per capita rate of Southeast Asians in the nation and as these refugees have, in general, experienced a…

Situated in the heart of New York's Chinatown, the Chinatown English Language Center is a community based project designed to provide recent Chinese adult immigrants settling in New York City with basic English speaking and listening and with reading and writing skills, which are necessary to their functioning effectively in U.S. society. Five…

An evaluation was done of New York City Board of Education's Project, Guidance Oriented Acquisition of Learning Skills (Project GOALS) for 1989-90. The project, in the first year of a 3-year funding cycle, provided 340 students of limited English proficiency (LEP) from various ethnic backgrounds (including Asian, Hispanic, Eastern European, and…

The Asian Newcomer Parent Program (ANPP), an experimental project initiated by the Education Center for Chinese (ECC) in 1971, was intended to provide newly immigrated parents some of the same opportunities as their children to learn English, to understand American mores and lifestyles, and to transcent some of the cultural and communication…

This study compared the academic performance and classroom behavior of Hmong-refugee first and second graders to those of classmates from other ethnic backgrounds. Two cohorts of children and families from six inner-city Saint Paul (Minnesota) elementary schools participated in this ongoing longitudinal study, for a total of 528 children entering…

An evaluation was done of New York City Board of Education's Project To Examine and Plan for Occupational Requisites and Employment (Project EXPLORE) for 1989-90. In its first year of funding, the project served 427 students of limited English proficiency and 58 English proficient students at Aviation and Long Island City High Schools in Queens.…

An evaluation was done of New York City Board of Education's Program Assistance for Neophytes (Project PAN) for 1989-90. The program served 625 Asian American, limited English proficient students, most of whom were recent immigrants, at John Bowne and Newtown High Schools in Queens. The program provided a transitional period of bilingual education…

An evaluation was done of the New York City Public Schools' Asian and Arabic Mediated Enrichment Resource and Instructional Career Awareness Program (Project AMERICA). During the 1990-91 school year, Project AMERICA operated at 2 high schools (Lafayette High School and Fort Hamilton High School) and served 408 Chinese-speaking Asian immigrant…

Results from the evaluation of 11 demonstration programs designed to prevent child abuse are summarized in this working paper. The programs were of three types: perinatal programs; community-wide education, information, and referral projects; and culturally relevant parent education efforts. The four perinatal programs focused on extended…

An evaluation was done of New York City Public Schools' Career Awareness Program (Project CAP), which served middle school (grades 6 through 9) economically disadvantaged Asian American students of limited English proficiency. The program served 222 students in 2 middle schools, 97.7 percent of whom were eligible for the Free Lunch Program. The…

The Asian Newcomer Parent Program (ANPP), was intended to provide newly immigrated parents some of the same opportunities as their children to learn English, to understand American mores and lifestyles, and to transcend some of the cultural and communication barriers within the family unit. The project is described in the second-year report, which…

The Alternative Basic Comprehensive Program (Project ABC) was a special alternative program for bilingual high school students in New York City. The project targeted two high schools with an influx of newly arrived immigrant students from Cambodia, Vietnam, and Spanish-speaking countries of the Caribbean and South America. The program was designed…