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Banghart, Patti; Cook, Maya; Zaslow, Martha – Child Trends, 2020
In 2014, the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) distributed 250 grants across states and localities in the United States and its territories to establish Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships (EHS-CCPs) to expand access to high-quality child care. A cornerstone of Early Head Start (EHS) is the provision of comprehensive services.…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Early Childhood Education, Partnerships in Education, Child Care
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Webster-Stratton, Carolyn; McCoy, Kathleen P. – New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2015
The Incredible Years® (IY) program series is a set of interlocking and comprehensive training programs for parents, teachers, and children. This article briefly reviews the theoretical foundations, goals, and research underlying these programs. The main purpose of the paper is to describe how the IY programs have been scaled up slowly and…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Family Programs, Behavioral Objectives, Educational Research
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Smith, Kathleen R.; Apple, Laurie; Souhtward, Leigh – Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences, 2014
Guided by the five cross-cutting themes of the American Association of Family & Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) Body of Knowledge (BOK) two capstone courses (C[superscript 2]) in Apparel Studies were designed to help prepare students for careers, further study, or both.
Descriptors: Clothing, Consumer Science, Family Programs, Curriculum Design
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Fleming, Richard K.; Stokes, Elise A.; Curtin, Carol; Bandini, Linda G.; Gleason, James; Scampini, Renee; Maslin, Melissa C. T.; Hamad, Charles – International Journal of Behavioral Consultation and Therapy, 2008
We review the literature on the prevalence and conditions resulting in overweight and obesity in people with intellectual disability (ID), followed by obesity treatment research with typically developing children and adaptations for children with ID. In addition to proposing directions for future research and practice, we report a comprehensive…
Descriptors: Obesity, Mental Retardation, Developmental Disabilities, Down Syndrome