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Download full textRussell, Avery, Ed. – Carnegie Quarterly, 1994
This journal issue examines the four key areas for major policy action identified by the Carnegie Task Force in its report, Starting Points: Meeting the Needs of Our Youngest Children. The four areas of policy recommendation are: (1) promoting responsible parenthood, concerned with preventing adolescent pregnancies and unwanted births, teaching…
Descriptors: Child Health, Child Rearing, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs
Brand, Mellie R. – 1986
The Family and Life Education program at Aims Community College (ACC) in Colorado began in 1967 as prenatal classes taught by volunteer instructors who were registered nurses with backgrounds in maternal-child health. Currently, the program, which is co-sponsored by ACC and North Colorado Medical Center, involves a program coordinator, three staff…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Family Life, Family Life Education
Puffert, Miriam Torvik – 1979
This model describes an educational intervention program, designed to meet the special needs of pregnant and parent teenagers by helping students to develop skills in optimal functioning and self-awareness and to build responsibility in fulfilling a new role. The program components deal with vocational and family life education to learn about…
Descriptors: Crisis Intervention, Educational Counseling, Family Programs, Group Counseling
Peer reviewedCollins, Raymond C. – Children Today, 1980
This article presents the goals and objectives of the Home Start Program, a description of the program, evaluation results, dissemination and replication outcomes, and results of a longitudinal research study of Home Start. The article concludes with implications for family policy as inferred from findings regarding Home Start. (DB)
Descriptors: Children, Cost Effectiveness, Educational History, Family Programs
Bernard van Leer Foundation Newsletter, 1995
This theme issue of the Bernard van Leer Foundation newsletter focuses on the problem of teenage pregnancy and teenage parenthood in developing and developed nations, and examines the problems that teenage mothers face in different societies. It explores societal norms and values related to teenage parenting; the effects of teenage parents on…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Standards, Developed Nations, Developing Nations
Ounce of Prevention Fund. – 1994
This report describes the activities of the Ounce of Prevention Fund, founded in 1982 as a public-private partnership to promote the well-being of Illinois children and families through various health and education programs. The Fund focuses its efforts on communities with limited resources, mainly in the Chicago metropolitan area. Among the…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Coordination, Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention
