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Download full textAssociation of Teacher Educators, Reston, VA. – 1995
This document reports on a fall 1994 working conference on linking education, health, social services, and other supports that children and families need, with the school as the hub. The conference involved six working groups. Four working groups were age-related, discussing early childhood, elementary, adolescent, and youth-in-transition…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Ancillary School Services, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs
Rohrer, John D., Ed.; Heimlich, Joe E., Ed. – 1981
Proceedings from a workshop for community leaders on litter control held in Painesville, Ohio on December 2, 1981 are presented. Complete and abbreviated texts of the different sessions provide an overview of litter control information, issues, and programs in Ohio. Topics covered include results from a statewide study of the amount and content of…
Descriptors: Community Leaders, Community Programs, Conferences, Environmental Education
Somers, Adele, Ed.; And Others – 1980
The conference proceedings of the First National Symposium on Youth Violence are presented in terms of the program objectives, i.e., to identify successful youth involvement programs and to develop positive strategies for decreasing violence. This monograph provides the program schedule and texts and summaries of various speeches on the topics of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Change Strategies, Community Programs, Delinquency
Hanrahan, Marian, Ed.; Prinsen, Bert, Ed. – 1997
The development of community-based programs to support inexperienced parents through home visits by experienced mothers, who are in turned facilitated by child health and development professionals, has become an increasingly common approach in Europe and the United States. This edited volume presents proceedings from an invitational conference on…
Descriptors: Child Health, Community Programs, Community Support, Family Programs
Koenig, Daniel G., Ed.; Peck, Magda G., Ed. – 1995
CityMatCH is a national organization of urban maternal and child health programs and leaders. In 1995, CityMatCH sponsored a conference at which urban maternal and child health leaders from city and county health departments across the country came together for professional development and networking. This report of highlights from the conference…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Health, Community Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Peck, Magda G., Ed. – 1993
This report presents highlights from a conference convened to discuss issues related to the enhancement of the ability of urban maternal and child health (MCH) programs at the local level to improve the health and well-being of children and families. In part 1 of the document, speeches concerning the federal and local perspectives on maternal and…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Child Health, Community Programs, Economically Disadvantaged
Family Resource Coalition, Chicago, IL. – 1990
Family support and education programs are community-based efforts that offer sustained assistance to families at various periods in their development. Support is provided to promote parental competencies and behavior that lead to healthy and positive development of parents and children. These programs take many forms, such as drop-in centers,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Programs, Family Programs, Family (Sociological Unit)
Gordon, James S., Ed. – 1981
This collection of essays provides an overview of runaways and runaway centers and describes specific short- and long-term services. The sections on direct services provide a basis for understanding the preventative services offered by runaway centers and the kinds of training necessary for center workers. The materials also consider the hazards…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Counseling Services, Counselor Training
Wattenberg, Esther, Ed. – 1995
This collection of papers is drawn from a conference dedicated to children suffering from the harm associated with being born to neglecting families, a circumstance that has emerged as the most challenging phenomenon for the child welfare system. Papers consider the dimensions of the problem, treatment models, policy considerations, and recent…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Development, Child Neglect, Child Welfare
McGuire, Thomas G., Ed.; Weisbrod, Burton A., Ed. – 1981
The papers in this volume are revisions of those presented at the Conference on Economics and Mental Health. The purposes of these papers and the conference at which they were discussed were to identify issues to facilitate wise public decision-making about mental health care, to assess the current state of knowledge, and to suggest directions for…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Counseling Effectiveness, Decision Making, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled)
Solorzano, Sylvia M., Ed. – 1993
This compilation presents edited manuscripts of presentations from a community education conference held in Illinois. Summaries are provided for the following presentations: (1) "Leadership for Diversity," by Theodore L. Gross, outlining classroom goals to lead students out of prejudice; (2) "Building Coalitions," by Pat Kaye Edwards, reviewing…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Community Action, Community Coordination, Community Education
InterAmerica Research Associates, Washington, DC. – 1978
The proceedings at fifteen career education site visits are detailed in this phase 2 final report. (Phase 1, community organization mini-conferences, is described in CE 020 110.) Notes from these visitations cover such programs as career education centers, school system-based programs, and education-work councils. Several site-visit purposes are…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Influence, Community Involvement, Community Programs
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
Department of Commerce, Washington, DC. – 1976
The conference reported here was held for national leaders from industry, labor, education, and youth-serving organizations to (1) provide a forum for the presentation of a sampling of illustrative programs displaying initiative being taken in the private sector to enhance youth career development, and (2) obtain the counsel of participants on how…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Career Development, Career Education, Community Involvement
