Many child welfare systems are unable to effectively identify and address co-occurring domestic violence and child maltreatment. In response, the Dependency Court Intervention Program for Family Violence implemented a protocol to identify indicators of domestic violence in families involved with child protection proceedings. This article…

A stripped-down case study of the development, implementation, and evaluation of a federally funded project illustrates the realities of planning, use of objectives, measurement, and evaluation. (Author/PF)

Describes the cooperation between Montgomery County, Maryland, librarians and public broadcasting station WETA to produce programs relating to books. (PF)

This handbook is one of four handbooks developed for preservice and inservice counselor preparation and professional development. It was developed as a practical guide for practicing professionals and as a textbook or supplementary material for use in courses or workshops on consultation. It consists of six chapters. "Introduction to Consultation:…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Nutrition Education and Training Program (NET) provides nutrition information and instructional resources for children and for key individuals involved in children's learning environments. The latter category includes parents, educators, and food service personnel. This document describes formal evaluation…

This paper is concerned with the problem that elderly persons do not seek or receive mental health services as frequently as their numbers or the incidence of mental health problems would indicate is appropriate. The report focuses on the identification of innovative mental health service delivery programs which have been designed to reach and to…

This document is the final report for a study of Black, unmarried adolescent fathers designed to identify and describe quantitatively the difficulties they faced and their problem solving methods. The data were secured through a nonprobability sample of 20 Black, unwed adolescent fathers in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and 27 in Chicago, Illinois. Data were…

These eight learning modules were prepared for parents participating in Brevard Community College's Project BEST-PAL (Basic Education Skills Through-Parenting Affective Learning), which was designed for low socioeconomic parents who are in need of an opportunity to explore effective parenting. First, materials for the BEST-PAL volunteer sponsors…

These eight learning modules were prepared for parents participating in Brevard Community College's Project BEST-PAL (Basic Education Skills Through-Parenting Affective Learning), which was designed for low socioeconomic parents who are in need of an opportunity to explore effective parenting. First, materials for the BEST-PAL volunteer sponsors…

The workshop reported in this document focused on professional and patient smoking education. First, high priority clinical opportunities for smoking intervention were identified. Second, topically-oriented small groups met to plan activities in each of the following priority areas: (1) initiation of smoking cessation/maintaining non-smoking…

The report describes achievements of a 3-year administration project designed to help parents and young children make the transition from community infant programs into public school early childhood special education classes. The importance of this transition period is underlined. The project developed a model to facilitate communication between…

The report details the accomplishments of Project RHISE--Rockford (Illinois) Handicapped Infant Services Expansion--outreach efforts. The year's (1981) activities described include establishment of 10 new sites for replication of the RHISE model, which views parents as primary interventionists for a transdisciplinary approach. The consultancy…

The final report describes activities of Project First Chance, Interactive Outreach Project, a program to stimulate the development of improvement of educational services to preschool handicapped children and their families. The project was also designed to provide outreach to culturally diverse populations (primarily Navajos) and to programs in…

The report examines accomplishments of project UPSTART, an intervention approach for young severely multihandicapped infants and their families. The project's outreach provided assistance at six sites, three of which were new. Outreach accomplishments are evaluated according to six objectives, including stimulation of program development,…

Goals and objectives of a special commission on Educational Outreach and Services, in January 1975, were to assess Florida citizens' needs for educational outreach, to inventory existing outreach efforts, to determine outreach roles of various post-secondary institutions, to suggest improvements for the delivery of outreach, and to develop a plan…