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Fay, Juliette; And Others – 1993
This guide, Part 2 of a 6-volume guide, is designed to assist program managers in maintaining comprehensive family-support programs through creative funding. It stresses building a portfolio of resources to serve the families within the communities. It also examines the general principles of financing strategy, potential funding sources, tips on…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Community Action, Community Resources, Comprehensive Programs
Download full textKagan, Sharon L.; And Others – 1992
This report presents the results of the first year of a 5-year project designed to investigate the impact of child care training programs on the employability of low-income women and assess the impact of such training on these women's parenting skills. The first year of the project was spent reviewing the literature. This report of the project and…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Learning, Adult Literacy, Adult Vocational Education
Soiferman, Lisa Karen – 1991
A study investigated the efficacy of a program designed to teach parents how to read to their low-achieving school-aged children to help increase the children's word recognition and comprehension. Parents whose children (grades 1-4) were receiving additional school assistance from a resource specialist were invited to enroll in the program.…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades, Low Achievement
Webster Avenue Family Resource Center, Rochester, NY. – 1989
For the Webster Avenue Family Resource Center (WAFRC) in Rochester (New York), growth and diversity marked 1989, with a total of 615 persons (up from 512 in 1988) from 273 families participating in over 12,000 hours of service. There was a related growth in space and staff. Diversity was enhanced through the following means: (1) development and…
Descriptors: Agency Role, At Risk Persons, Black Family, Community Centers
Devlin, Kevin M. – 1991
A lack of education is a major cause of poverty among many Kentucky citizens. In 1986, Kentucky's dropout rate was the second highest of the 50 states. That same year, Kentucky established the Parent and Child Education (PACE) Program in an effort to combat the problems of insufficient education and poverty that tend to be perpetuated from…
Descriptors: Academic Failure, Compensatory Education, Dropout Programs, Early Intervention
Clark, Catherine P. – 1993
Compensatory education describes the special programs and services provided to students who are not succeeding in school and who do not qualify for special education. Educators define these students as "at risk"--at risk of school failure and a difficult transition to productive adult life. A recent study of compensatory education by the…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Cost Effectiveness, Educational Planning, Elementary Secondary Education
Massey, Marilyn S. – 1998
Noting that all Americans are stakeholders in the quest to prevent violence in the critical early years, this Digest focuses on preventing violence in children's lives and suggests ways caregivers, parents, and teachers can reduce the damaging effects of violence. Even before a child is born, violence can have a profound effect upon its life.…
Descriptors: Caregiver Child Relationship, Caregiver Role, Child Abuse, Child Development
TIU Adult Education and Job Training Center, Lewistown, PA. – 1992
The ACCEPT (Adult Computer Competency Educational Program Training) computer literacy project at an adult education and job training center in Pennsylvania was adapted for use with adult basic education students with children to provide computer skills development, an understanding of how computers are used in their children's education, and an…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Students, Basic Skills
Stremel, Kathleen; And Others – 1992
This paper on facilitating skill development of infants and toddlers with disabilities within family-child routines focuses on: (1) developing a routine analysis by incorporating multiple Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP) objectives into family-selected routines; (2) utilizing systematic family training procedures to integrate targeted skills…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Intervention, Family Involvement, Family Life
Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED), Washington, DC. Clearinghouse on Adult Education and Literacy. – 1990
Abstracts of 46 projects funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Even Start program in 1990 are presented. Each project is from a different public school, public school district, board of education, or regional educational cooperative. Among the projects reported are the following: Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY)…
Descriptors: Child Development, Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged, Early Childhood Education
Schatz, Mona Struhsaker; And Others – 1991
This module is part of a training program for foster parents and foster care workers offered at Colorado State University. The module's learning objectives address: (1) the position of the foster child as an outsider in the foster family; (2) foster parenting experiences with children from birth to 18 years of age; and (3) the process of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Childhood Needs, Course Descriptions
Library of Congress, Washington, DC. Congressional Research Service. – 1988
The Augustus F. Hawkins-Robert T. Stafford Elementary and Secondary School Improvement Amendments of 1988 (P.L. 100-297) amend most previously authorized programs of federal aid to elementary and secondary education, and authorize several new programs, most of which are consolidated into an amended version of the Elementary and Secondary Education…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Bilingual Education, Disadvantaged, Educational Policy
Clarke, June S. – 1993
A practicum was designed to address the discrepancies in educational and behavioral expectations and priorities noted on parent and staff surveys at a rural elementary school. The survey of parents (n=261) indicated parents' need and desire for education and training in helping their children at home. The goal of the project was to implement an…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Attitude Change, Elementary Education, Parent Attitudes
Tregenza, Ann – 1993
This paper discusses the "School of the Twenty-First Century" concept and its implementation in three schools in Knowsley, Merseyside, England. The "School of the Twenty-First Century" idea was first promulgated in 1987, by Edward Zigler of the Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy, Yale University. The…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Ancillary School Services, Community Information Services, Day Care
Swick, Kevin J.; And Others – 1993
This report details the evaluation of Target 2000, a South Carolina parent education program that involves parent and literacy training as well as social services for children and parents, and that is intended to increase parents' effectiveness as the primary teachers of their preschool children. The evaluation process described was shaped by the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Child Development, Early Childhood Education
