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Brown, Ralph A.; Hill, Betty Anne – Child Welfare, 1996
Describes the development and evaluation of a community-based program that provided an alternative to residential care by providing "wraparound" services to children with moderate to severe emotional difficulties. Program goals were preventing admission to residential care, maintaining children in the area, and assisting in early…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Community Programs, Emotional Disturbances, Foreign Countries
Lehman, Constance – Teaching Research Newsletter, 1992
The Job Designs Project, a 3-year federally funded project, provides students (ages 16-22) at an Oregon residential treatment center for youth with emotional and behavioral disorders with supported paid employment in the community. The project has provided job supported employment services to 36 students working in such positions as restaurant bus…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Community Programs, Education Work Relationship, Emotional Disturbances
Ameen, Christine A. – 1986
Program evaluation guidelines are drawn from experience evaluating residential child-care programs at the Starr Commonwealth Schools (Michigan). Delinquent and behaviorally disadvantaged youth participate in treatment based on the Psychoeducational Model (Brendtro and Ness), including full-time school, service learning projects, physical education…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Disorders, Behavioral Objectives, Delinquent Rehabilitation
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Metzger, Jed – Residential Treatment for Children & Youth, 2006
There is paucity in both the literature and in the practice of integrated, evidence-based models of residential care for youth. This article describes the assessment and the process that led to the redesign of services at a residential center. The article describes how evidence-based models for each of the four major disciplines (residential…
Descriptors: Residential Care, Residential Institutions, Behavior Disorders, Residential Programs
Young, Steven C. – 1991
This practicum report describes a project designed to increase the level of coordination of treatment planning between professional and paraprofessional staff at a residential treatment and educational facility for 40 adolescent males with learning disabilities or severe emotional disturbances. Three corollary aims were to increase the level of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Disorders, Coordination, Decision Making
Liberton, Cindy J., Ed.; And Others – 1993
This conference proceedings document includes 43 papers on the provision of mental health services to children. Eleven papers focus on evaluation of systems of care, addressing: preliminary findings from several program evaluation studies, systems of care in California, several Robert Wood Johnson projects, a parents' satisfaction survey in…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Behavior Disorders, Child Welfare, Delivery Systems