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Robin, Hazel; And Others – 1988
This manual aims to help communities develop a plan to improve services to children from birth to 3 years of age who are chronically ill or disabled, and their families. Section I provides background information needed to begin a Community Approach to an Integrated Service System (CAISS) committee in a community. It addresses the issue that…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Chronic Illness, Community Action, Community Coordination
Catalano, Stephen – 1984
The paper presents the multi-factorial problem of sexual abuse of children within their families, provides definitions of relevant terms (incest, sexual abuse, sexual misuse, molestation, sexual assault, rape), reviews the epidemiology of sexual abuse and its effects, and traces development of a Sexual Abuse Resource Team in a rural/resort New…
Descriptors: Community Services, Definitions, Etiology, Family Problems
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Gaetz, Stephen – Urban Anthropology and Studies of Cultural Systems and World Economic Development, 1992
A weakness in the approach to community-based youth services in Cork (Ireland) involves viewing the terms "youth" and "community" as though they represented homogeneous categories. Ethnographic data highlight the difficulties of monolithic classification by describing the experiences of three distinct categories of young…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Community Services, Ethnic Groups, Ethnography
Adams, Anne Thomas; Franklin, Sundra; Taylor, Rebecca – 2002
This resource manual has been developed to assist both case managers and management staff in implementing a case management system as an infrastructure for delivering services that will facilitate the positive growth and development of youth and the achievement of individual and organizational performance goals. (The goal of case managers is to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Case Records, Caseworker Approach