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Direct linkWoodall, James; Coan, Susan; Stanley, Michelle – Health Education Journal, 2023
Objective: This paper reports on a programme which sought to engage individuals and groups who are underrepresented in the UK labour market. The programme aimed to improve access to employment opportunities and provide practical support in job applications. The focus was on encouraging people to seek employment in the health and social care…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Disproportionate Representation, Employment Opportunities
Sallee, Margaret W.; Kohler, Christopher W.; Haumesser, Luke C.; Hine, Joshua C. – Journal of Higher Education, 2023
Although studies have addressed how universities respond to the needs of student-parents and food-insecure students independently, few studies examine students with these intersecting identities. This article explores how institutional culture affects the ways that universities respond to the needs of food-insecure student-parents. Using Schein's…
Descriptors: Hunger, Parents, College Students, College Role
Heslop, Pauline; Byrne, Victoria; Calkin, Rachel; Gielnik, Kamila; Huxor, Avon – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2022
In England, the national mortality review programme for people with intellectual disabilities, the LeDeR programme, was established in 2015. The programme supports local areas to review the deaths of all people with intellectual disabilities aged 4 years and over. Each death has an initial review; if indicated, a full multi-agency review takes…
Descriptors: Mortality Rate, Intellectual Disability, Foreign Countries, Health Services
Doré R. LaForett; Dana Thomson; Jessica Warren – Early Education and Development, 2024
Research Findings: Very little research has examined whether the contributions of Head Start's Family Service Workers (FSWs) and family partnership services influence family and child outcomes. Using data from 215 families in the 2014 Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES), this study used structural equation models to examine…
Descriptors: Federal Programs, Social Services, Family Programs, Mental Health
Christina Nicolaidis; Mirah Scharer; Dora M. Raymaker; Joseph Vera; Todd Edwards; Ian Moura; Mary Baker-Ericzén; Joelle Maslak; Liu-Qin Yang; Rachel Kripke-Ludwig; Steven K. Kapp; Andrea Joyce; Anna Wallington; Academic Autism Spectrum Partnership in Research and Education (AASPIRE) Outcomes Project Team – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
People are increasingly recognizing the need for service interventions to improve the lives of autistic adults. However, less is known about how to best evaluate such services. We aimed to identify (1) which self-reported outcomes are most important to measure when evaluating the effectiveness of services for autistic adults and (2) what survey…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adults, Program Evaluation, Intervention
Anne Marie Malbica – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Challenging behavior in adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) can lead to decreased quality of life and social and community inclusion. Compared to research with children there is relatively limited research on effective behavior support interventions for adults with disabilities. The Prevent-Teach-Reinforce (PTR) program…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Intellectual Disability, Developmental Disabilities, Adults
Daugherty, Lindsay; Johnston, William R.; Berglund, Tiffany – RAND Corporation, 2020
Single Stop U.S.A.'s Community College Initiative was designed to improve the well-being of low-income communities by connecting individuals to public benefits and other institutional and community resources to address nonacademic barriers to college completion. Through offices located on community college campuses, Single Stop provides students…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Two Year College Students, Student Personnel Services, Social Services
Casey, Erin A.; Vanslyke, Jan; Beadnell, Blair; Tatiana Masters, N.; McFarland, Kirstin – American Journal of Evaluation, 2023
Principles focused evaluation (PFE) can complement existing formative and outcome evaluation plans by identifying Effectiveness Principles (EPs), an operationalization of values and standards that guide practitioners during program implementation. To date, however, few examples of PFE are available in the literature. This description of the…
Descriptors: Rape, Prevention, Sexual Abuse, Evaluation Methods
Download full textWasserman, Kyla; Freedman, Lily; Rodney, Zaina; Schultz, Caroline – MDRC, 2021
The Families Forward Demonstration (FFD) examined new strategies to increase the earnings of parents who owe child support but are unable to fully meet their obligations due to low earnings. It also focused on "responsive" child support services that helped parents understand their support obligations, and even suspended certain…
Descriptors: Job Training, Parents, Children, Financial Support
Janeth Aleman-Tovar; Meghan M. Burke; Edwin Monárrez; Nicole Espinosa Zaldivar – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Families of autistic youth often support their children's transition from adolescence to adulthood. During this time, families learn to navigate the complex shift from school-based to adult disability services. For Latinx (vs non-Latinx White) families of autistic youth, transition is especially difficult because of the systemic barriers (e.g.…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Hispanic Americans, Family (Sociological Unit), Autism Spectrum Disorders
Ching-Teng Yao – Educational Gerontology, 2024
Older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) are at increased risk of progression to dementia. Whether it is feasible to engage this population in expressive arts therapy and yield effects on cognition and depression for older adults with MCI remained unclear. The aim of this study examined the effects of expressive arts therapy on the…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Art Expression, Cognitive Processes, Neurological Impairments
McCoy, Patricia Fayce – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Students entering Kindergarten need to obtain readiness skills to make their first year of school a successful one. Many students may appear overwhelmed with the activities and expectations that are placed on them in a kindergarten classroom. Many families and teachers would like for kindergarten to be conducted the way it was many years ago, but…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, School Readiness, Preschool Education, Best Practices
Rooney, Joy M.; Unwin, Peter F. – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2021
Service users and carers' (SUACs) inclusion in student selection days at English universities is accepted as standard practice, since such inclusion is mandated by a range of professional health and social work regulators. However, SUACs' voices are little heard; this study addresses this knowledge gap for the first time. Student selection…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Admission Criteria, College Admission, Social Work
Beadle-Brown, Julie; Beecham, Jennifer; Leigh, Jennifer; Whelton, Rebecca; Richardson, Lisa – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2021
Background: With increasing reductions in funding for social care across many countries, the need to ensure that resources are used to best effect is becoming increasingly important, in particular for those with severe and complex needs. Methods: In order to explore the outcomes and costs of skilled support for this group of people, quality of…
Descriptors: Severe Intellectual Disability, Social Services, Program Effectiveness, Costs
Shayne B. Piasta; Zhiling Shea; Alida K. Hudson; Ye Shen; Jessica A. R. Logan; Cynthia M. Zettler-Greeley; Kandia Lewis – Infant and Child Development, 2025
A growing number of early childhood interventions are intended to be used by classroom teachers to support children's emergent literacy development, yet we know little about for whom such interventions might be effective. In this study, we examined whether children's initial emergent literacy skills (alphabet knowledge, phonological awareness,…
Descriptors: Emergent Literacy, Intervention, Alphabets, Phonological Awareness
