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Toward Sexual Health Equity for Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth: An Intergenerational, Collaborative, Multisector Partnerships Approach to Structural Change
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Sirdenis, Triana Kazaleh; Harper, Gary W.; Carrillo, Marcos D.; Jadwin-Cakmak, Laura; Loveluck, Jimena; Pingel, Emily S.; Benton, Akilah; Peterson, Amy; Pollard, Rama; Bauermeister, José A. – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Background: Gay, bisexual, and transgender youth (GBTY) experience sexual health inequities and contend with intersectional oppression. The Michigan Forward in Enhancing Research and Community Equity (MFierce) Coalition formed as an intergenerational, collaborative, multisector partnership with a focus on implementing community-identified policy,…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Homosexuality, Sexuality, Health Promotion
Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative: Hidden in Plain View
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Diamond-Berry, Kimberly; Ezeh, Nkechy – ZERO TO THREE, 2020
Early Learning Neighborhood Collaborative (ELNC) began as a year-long initiative to support early learning for very young children and families. The program has grown into a self-sustaining, nonprofit, place-based organization committed to improving the lives of children and families in the underresourced neighborhoods of Grand Rapids, MI.…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Neighborhoods, Family Programs
Home Sweet Hassle.
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Metts, Wallis C., Jr. – Educational Leadership, 1996
A parent and communications professor describes his family's long-standing participation in home schooling, highlighting efforts to provide socialization and service education, uphold academic standards, and integrate learning activities into everyday life. Home schooling is a labor of love. Children benefit from experiencing the focused attention…
Descriptors: Activism, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Role, Home Schooling
Cross-Generational Storytelling
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Smith, Cindy; Thurston, Judy Kay – SchoolArts: The Art Education Magazine for Teachers, 2007
What happens when you combine senior citizens, pre-service art teachers, and elementary students? Cross-generational connections based on sharing memories, ideas, skills, laughter, tears, and creativity. The authors describe the cross-generational book exchange project. This project was initiated when a group of Central Michigan University (CMU)…
Descriptors: Art Education, Art Teachers, Story Telling, Older Adults
Parents and Children Together (PACT). Process and Product Evaluation Report 1989-90.
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Saginaw Public Schools, MI. Dept. of Evaluation Services. – 1990
Implemented in September 1989, the Parents and Children Together project was intended to engage approximately 30 adult basic education (ABE) students in schooling to improve their skills as learners and, at the same time, involve them in the learning activities of their preschool children. A process and product evaluation was carried out on the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Intergenerational Programs, Outcomes of Education
Research Evaluation of a Foster Grandparent Program.
Saltz, Rosalyn – Journal of Children in Contemporary Society, 1989
Effects on the personal development of participants in the Foster Grandparent Program (FGP) are evaluated. In a series of studies conducted at the Detroit FGP, foster grandparenting positively influenced the children's social, verbal, and intellectual development. Positive outcomes for the older participants included life satisfaction, adjustment,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Child Neglect, Children, Evaluation Research