This paper describes a model parent support program which would identify and coordinate existing community resources in an effort to help meet the varied needs of parents (particularly expectant adolescents, new parents and single parents) during pregnancy and the first few months of their children's lives. The components of this program would…

This paper briefly discusses the effects of home environment, parenting, family configuration (number spacing of children) and nutrition on young children's mental development and subsequent school success. Variety and richness of home stimulation are identified as crucial to the child's later academic success. The quality of mothering and…

This paper describes the staff training and program installation techniques utilized by the Parent Readiness Education Project (PREP), a model early childhood education program. PREP was funded by the United States Office of Education to serve as a Developer/Demonstrator project to provide information, training, materials, and advice to school…

This paper reviews the concept of parent involvement in preschool intervention programs and presents experimental data relevant to the effectiveness of several preschool and home-based teaching programs for economically disadvantaged children. The range of current assumptions about parents is summarized as: (1) parents need to be taught how to be…

This bibliography lists materials, programs and resources which appear to be relevant to the needs of parents and those working with parents. The bibliography is a project of the Parenting Materials Information Center (PMIC) being developed by the Southwest Educational Development Laboratory. PMIC will collect, analyze and disseminate information…

This report provides a statewide summary and evaluation of the first year of operation of the early childhood education program funded by the State of California. Approximately 800 school districts throughout the state provided early childhood education programs for 172,073 pupils in K-3 (14 percent of statewide enrollment). Master plans,…

This book provides basic material on preservice and inservice instructional programming for foster parents and foster family social workers, and describes a number of program models in which these basic materials are being implemented. The materials (most of which were developed for the June 1973 Invitational Training Seminar at St. Louis…

An experiment was performed to determine whether the mothers of 20 inner-city black preschoolers could successfully train their children in interpersonal problem-solving skills. The skills acquired by the mother-trained children were compared with those of 113 teacher-trained and 106 non-trained 4-year-olds, equated on initial IQ scores and school…

This bibliography contains references to books, articles, project reports, pamphlets, and conference papers (a few written in French) chosen for their easy availability and divided into sections on various topics pertinent to day care services: (1) organization and administration, funding and costing, need for day care; (2) parent involvement,…

This report describes the development, implementation and evaluation of a pilot early intervention program for parents and their infants 1 to 36 months old. Parents were trained by paraprofessionals (under the direction of professionals) to increase their psychomotor areas. The pilot project included 90 families with children under three years of…

Family centers were used to coordinate the delivery of services in the Child and Family Reosurce Program (CFRP) in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, one of 11 demonstration sites in this Head Start-affiliated program. Cooperation between county service agencies was fostered by implementation of a task force whose members were executive directors of the…

This publication is intended to be used by school districts in California that are in the process of developing district and individual school master plans for restructuring educational programs for kindergarten and grades 1-3. A number of considerations pertinent to development of these master plans are outlined: (1) district- and school-level…

This publication consists of seven lists of resources for educators, parents, and others interested in the care of children. Each list consists of selected materials from commercial and noncommercial publishers and some documents available through the ERIC system. Most entries include a brief annotation, the publisher's (or source's) name and…

This report describes a six-week Homestart pilot project designed to provide Head Start-type services to young children in their homes. The program consisted of three components: (1) home visits, in which Piagetian tasks were introduced to encourage verbal interaction between parent and child; (2) weekly group meetings for the children which…

This first year report describes the educational philosophy and organization of a Saturday school program aimed at ameliorating emotional or learning difficulties in 4-year-old children. The evaluation of the project during its first year focused on 42 different product and process objectives and was concerned with the project's impact on…