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Manville, David L. – 1997
This paper proposes the establishment of legally oriented parent education programs for never married parents. The paper describes a multifaceted program designed to provide information to never married parents on the legal system, personal and parental responsibility and its associated impact on children. Co-parenting issues, resolving conflicts…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Child Welfare, Court Role, One Parent Family
Farquhar, Sarah-Eve – 2002
This document is the first report on an evaluation of the Parents as First Teachers Programme (PAFT) in New Zealand, an established parent education and support service for parents of children birth to age three. This preliminary report details the findings of an analysis of a family exit survey completed by 400 families participating in PAFT.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Home Visits, Parent Education, Parenting Skills
Sledden, Elizabeth – 1989
The Healthy Beginnings program is designed to help parents of prematurely born infants adjust to parenting challenges and opportunities of the first 2 years of the infant's life. The Healthy Beginnings Program provides parents of premature infants with support and guidance by offering: (1) monthly education and support meetings; (2) evaluations…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Coping, Parent Education, Parenting Skills
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Roker, Debi; Richardson, Helen – Children & Society, 2002
Evaluated a 3-year initiative to organize 30 projects in YMCA centers in England to provide help and support to the parents of teenagers; projects involved group-based courses, "dads and lads" projects, mediation schemes, and families and computing courses. Identified a variety of outcomes for parents, youth, project workers, and the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Foreign Countries, Organizations (Groups), Parenting Skills
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Ray, Nancy K.; And Others – Child Welfare, 1994
Reviews the programs of eight nonprofit agencies in New York State that provide parenting training and direct assistance to parents who are mentally retarded. Briefly profiles the families in these programs. Discusses program experiences and common lessons learned by the programs. Sets forth guidelines for work with similar clients. (AS)
Descriptors: Family Programs, Family Relationship, Group Unity, Mental Retardation
Cutting, Elizabeth – 1998
Family social isolation, conflicting workplace demands, inadequate and unaffordable child care, and parent and child needs have strained family life and have led to calls for parent support programs in Scotland. This report describes Year 1 of the Positive Parenting Project, designed to support parents in combating the effects of poverty in four…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Children, Family Needs, Foreign Countries
Smith, Celia; Pugh, Gillian – 1996
Recognizing increasing difficulties faced by parents in the 1990s, this study surveyed group-based parenting programs in Great Britain in 1994-95. Findings indicate considerable diversity in program theory, objectives, content, and methods, with most programs based on social learning and behavioral principles. The main focus of programs is…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Foreign Countries, Interviews, National Surveys
Woodard, Beth L. – 1992
This paper reports on the implementation and results of a program that addressed the problem of aggressive behavior among students at an urban elementary school. Program objectives were to bring about a decline in the number of referrals written for students' aggressive behavior; an increase of parents' supervision of children's media consumption;…
Descriptors: Aggression, Conflict Resolution, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Evans, Judith L.; Stansbery, P. A. – 1998
Noting that the demands and expectations of parents worldwide have shifted tremendously over the last 20 years, and that parents' ability to fulfill their parental roles will affect their communities as well as their own children, this booklet examines programming for parents that is designed to support young children's development, and discusses…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Childhood Needs, Community Development, Distance Education
Allen, MaryLee; And Others – 1992
By strengthening families' ability to nurture their children physically, emotionally, and intellectually, family support programs increase the likelihood that children will grow up healthy, safe, and successful. This report provides child advocates and others who work for children's well-being a clearer idea of what family support programs do, how…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Health, Child Rearing, Child Welfare
Richardson, Donna Castle; And Others – 1993
This report describes an evaluation of the effectiveness of the Oklahoma City Public Schools' Even Start Family Literacy Project (ESFLP). The ESFLP sought to: (1) improve parents' basic literacy and employment skills; (2) enable parents to take a teaching-guiding role with their children; (3) encourage parents to become true partners with schools…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Evaluation Methods, Family Literacy, Literacy Education
Utting, David, Ed. – 1996
These proceedings contain papers presented at a conference sponsored by the Family Policy Studies Centre in London, September, 1995, which brought together professionals to describe their parenting support or education projects which were part of the Department of Health's Parenting Initiative. Conference papers discussed the role of government in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Rearing, Children, Community Programs
St. Pierre, Robert; And Others – 1993
The Even Start program represents an innovative combination of programs for adult basic education, parenting education, and early childhood education. Focusing on parents and children as a unit, Even Start projects have three interrelated goals: (1) to help parents become full partners in the education of their children; (2) to assist children in…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Adult Basic Education, Compensatory Education
St. Pierre, Robert; Ricciuti, Anne; Tao, Fumiyo; Creps, Cindy; Swartz, Janet; Lee, Wang; Parsad, Amanda; Rimdzius, Tracy – 2003
The Even Start Literacy Program, established in 1989, aims to simultaneously improve the literacy of children and their parents through (1) early childhood education; (2) parenting education; (3) adult education; and (4) parent-child joint literacy activities. The report details findings from the third national Even Start evaluation. The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Adult Basic Education, Compensatory Education