Describes the American Home Economics Association's Volunteer Nutrition Consultant Project, in which home economists teach, advise, and share their nutrition expertise with Head Start children and families. Discusses how the program works, what services the volunteers provide, and what effect the program has had on Head Start families. (SO)

Describes successful efforts made at the Head Start Program in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana to involve parents in their children's preschool education. (Author/RH)

Describes the development of a training program in Arizona for foster parents of mentally retarded children. (RH)

Describes the goals, operation, results and evaluation of the adoptive parent education program of the Children's Home in Cincinnati, Ohio, in operation since 1973. (ED)

Reviews recent actions taken in Sweden to promote child welfare such as banning corporal punishment, prohibiting the sale of toys depicting modern war, implementing parent education and bilingual programs, and providing leave from work so parents can care for their newborn. (Author/RH)

Describes a series of group meetings for prospective adoptive couples in which participants explored issues related to rearing adopted children with special needs. Results of informal evaluation by participants are reported. (RH)

Describes the genesis, purpose, goals and activities of parent education and family advocacy programs which are presented as two models for non-traditional intervention methods of working with high-risk families. (ED)

Presents current developments concerning nursing bottle caries--"baby bottle tooth decay"--and spotlights a program funded by Head Start to reduce the prevalence of these painful and disfiguring, but preventable, children's dental diseases among American Indians and Alaska Native families. (Author/BB)

Describes the development, testing and evaluation of a curriculum designed to help foster parents deal with the problems encountered in their special situations. (SB)

Describes the development of curriculum materials for educating foster parents of mentally retarded children. (RH)

Discusses the development and philosophy of parent-infant education programs provided by Washington State community colleges and vocational technical schools consisting of parent-participation classes and cooperative preschools for 10,000 families. Describes program at Seattle Community College. (BF/JH)

Calls for coordination of existing community structures in combination with the creation of broad-based public support as ways of providing needed child abuse services efficiently, effectively and compassionately. (ED)

Describes a 12-week course for foster parents sponsored by the University of Minnesota in cooperation with Minnesota state and county departments of welfare and the Minnesota Foster Parents Association. (MB)

Describes Tiospaye Teca (Young Families), a program which offers services to pregnant teens, adolescent parents and their children in South Dakota. Programs include summer employment, teen parent camp, and a welcome baby program. Factors that account for the program's progress in services for pregnant teens and adolescent parents are discussed.…

Describes a class designed to meet the needs of adoptive parents through discussion, educational presentations by specialists, and group visits to hospital labor and delivery rooms. (SDH)