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Peer reviewedKrenk, Christopher J. – Child Welfare, 1984
Describes a pilot staff development project at Christie School, a residential center with a capacity for 38 emotionally disturbed children. (RH)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Intervention, Professional Training, Program Descriptions
Bautsch, John E. – 1979
The paper describes the background and development of The Residential Facilities Worker Training Program, a 2-year degree program at Seattle Community College (Washington) to train staff persons to work in community based residential settings with developmentally disabled children, adolescents, and adults. Need for the program is discussed,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Community Programs, Developmental Disabilities, Higher Education
Peer reviewedJanosik, Steven M. – Journal of College and University Student Housing, 1977
This article describes a behaviorally focused in-service training program for paraprofessional resident assistants. The format used includes workshops and seminars taught through experiential learning, structured experiences, short lectures and small group discussions. The theoretical base of this program is developmental learning theory. (DOW)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, College Housing, Higher Education, Program Descriptions
Peer reviewedCallander, Bruce D. – Teacher Education and Special Education, 1978
A model for implementing in-service education in a residential setting for mentally retarded students is discussed. (CL)
Descriptors: Conceptual Schemes, Inservice Education, Mental Retardation, Models
Peer reviewedMaloney, Dennis M.; And Others – Child Welfare, 1977
The "Bringing It All Back Home" project at a North Carolina center provides an example of the teacher-based Model for troubled adolescents in group homes. (MS)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Models, Paraprofessional Personnel
Peer reviewedLowenthal, Barbara; Lowenthal, Richard – Childhood Education, 1997
Discusses challenges to adolescent mothers, adolescent fathers, and the young children of teenage parents. Describes recommended practices used in the Summer Training and Education Program, a life skills program; Between Us Sisters Starting To Operate Efficiently, a residential program; and the Developmental Training and Support Program, a staff…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Daily Living Skills, Early Parenthood, Parent Education
Download full textFolsom, Geneva S. – 1975
A trainer's manual is presented in the second of three volumes on the Life Skills for the Developmentally Disabled Project, which focuses on deinstitutionalization through improved staff utilization. It is explained that the manual provides strategies designed to involve the total staff and clients in a system of accountability for communicating,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Daily Living Skills, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Developmental Disabilities
Hawkins, Donald E.; Folsom, Geneva S. – 1975
Presented in the first of three volumes is a summary and evaluation of the Life Skills for the Developmentally Disabled Project which was designed to prevent inappropriate institutional placement and to assist in deinstitutionalization of individuals in Forest Haven, the District of Columbia's Center for the developmentally disabled. It is…
Descriptors: Accountability, Daily Living Skills, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Developmental Disabilities
