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Download full textCollins, Ray; And Others – 1996
This preliminary guide is designed to help AmeriCorps and other national service programs plan and deliver effective early childhood services. The guide can also be used in community-based planning to incorporate national service organizations in early childhood program initiatives. Following an overview of the roles that AmeriCorps and other…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Early Childhood Education, National Programs, Program Implementation
Goetz, Kathy, Ed.; Peck, Shelley, Ed. – 1994
Institutions have been slow to respond to changes in family life, and service delivery has mostly been limited to responding to crises and to treating problems. Family resource and support programs began emerging in the 1970s to fill parents' expressed need for more support. As part of this trend, the federal Family Preservation and Support…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Family Programs, Federal Programs, Fund Raising
Mountainbird, Pauline – 1991
A Massachusetts family literacy project, the Northampton Family Literacy Project, is described, in which adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) learners enrolled in a community educational center in order to learn English as their children enrolled in a child care program at the local library. Both groups were involved in language activities,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Annotated Bibliographies, Childrens Literature
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. – 1987
This document contains 34 abstracts that describe sex equity projects operating in Virginia during fiscal year 1986-87 with federal funding through the Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act of 1984. The abstracts are organized in the following eight categories: (1) centers to serve single parents and homemakers; (2) programs to serve teenage…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Counselor Training, Demand Occupations, Displaced Homemakers
Rioux, J. William; Berla, Nancy – 1993
Designed to help parents and teachers think beyond the ordinary ways in which parent-family involvement in education is considered and approached, this book describes 34 operational parent-family involvement programs in preschools and in elementary, middle, and high schools. It also describes programs run by school districts and communities. Among…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Change Strategies, Child Development, Educational Improvement
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. – 1989
This document contains abstracts of 43 projects conducted through Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act sex equity set-aside grants administered by the Vocational Gender Equity Office, Virginia Department of Education. The projects described are grouped in the following categories: (1) centers to serve single parents and homemakers; (2)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Development, Career Education, Community Programs
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. – 1988
This document contains abstracts of 47 projects conducted through Carl D. Perkins Vocational Education Act sex equity set-aside grants administered by the Vocational Gender Equity Office, Virginia Department of Education. The projects described are grouped in the following categories: (1) centers to serve single parents and homemakers; (2)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Development, Career Education, Community Programs
