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Building Multicultural Residential Communities: A Model for Training Student Staff
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Petryk, Taryn; Thompson, Monita C.; Boynton, Trelawny – New Directions for Student Services, 2013
The growing diversity and changing demographics within the United States increases the importance of students developing skills to engage across identity difference. The purpose of this chapter is to describe how a pre-employment course for student staff members is used as a multicultural intervention training to provide students with the…
Descriptors: Models, Job Training, Job Skills, Student Employment
Interventions Provided by Parents for Children with Intellectual Disabilities in Low and Middle Income Countries
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Einfeld, Stewart L.; Stancliffe, Roger J.; Gray, Kylie M.; Sofronoff, Kate; Rice, Lauren; Emerson, Eric; Yasamy, M. T. – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2012
Background: In low- and middle-income (LAMI) countries, there is a lack of well-trained therapists to provide specialist interventions for children with intellectual disabilities and their families. We sought to identify strategies deliverable by families or non-specialist workers. Materials and Methods: After searches of appropriate scientific…
Descriptors: Intervention, Community Development, Income, Mental Retardation
A Community Health Advisor Program to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk among Rural African-American Women
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Cornell, C. E.; Littleton, M. A.; Greene, P. G.; Pulley, L.; Brownstein, J. N.; Sanderson, B. K.; Stalker, V. G.; Matson-Koffman, D.; Struempler, B.; Raczynski, J. M. – Health Education Research, 2009
The Uniontown, Alabama Community Health Project trained and facilitated Community Health Advisors (CHAs) in conducting a theory-based intervention designed to reduce the risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD) among rural African-American women. The multiphased project included formative evaluation and community organization, CHA recruitment and…
Descriptors: Community Development, Intervention, Females, Formative Evaluation
Paths to Empowerment. Ten Years of Early Childhood Work in Israel.
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Paz, Ruth – 1990
In this book, Bernard van Leer Foundation programs in Israel that combined early childhood education and community development approaches across a 10-year period are described. Chapter (1) provide an introduction; (2) discuss the evolution of this combined approach, its theoretical roots in the separate disciplines of early childhood education and…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Community Development, Compensatory Education
Chapin Hall Projects and Publications. Autumn 1999.
Chicago Univ., IL. Chapin Hall Center for Children. – 1999
This guide chronicles the ongoing work and writings of the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago, a policy research center dedicated to bringing sound information, rigorous analyses, innovative ideas, and an independent, multidisciplinary perspective to bear on policies and programs affecting children. This guide, organized…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adoption, Child Welfare, Children
Chapin Hall Center for Children Projects and Publications, 2000-2001.
Chicago Univ., IL. Chapin Hall Center for Children. – 2000
This guide chronicles the ongoing work and writings of the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago, a policy research center dedicated to bringing sound information, rigorous analyses, innovative ideas, and an independent, multidisciplinary perspective to bear on policies and programs affecting children. This guide, organized…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adoption, Child Welfare, Children