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Henderson, Deborah R. – 1989
Project WorkAbility is a California program serving special education secondary and postsecondary students. The model design for WorkAbility is based on well-known transition models and contains components common to those models. The design views transition as both a process and a product, supports interagency cooperation and collaboration, and…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship
Burwick, Andrew; Bellotti, Jeanne; Nagatoshi, Charles – US Department of Health and Human Services, Head Start Bureau, 2004
Father involvement enhances children's well-being. A growing body of research supports this conclusion, showing that children with involved fathers exhibit greater school readiness, increased cognitive development, higher levels of empathy, and other positive characteristics (Administration for Children and Families 2004a). Research also indicates…
Descriptors: Fathers, Parent Participation, Early Childhood Education, Federal Programs
Cohn, Ronnie B. – 1984
The paper discusses recommendations for a statewide (California) plan to provide transitional services to severely handicapped high school students. Initial sections trace the state and federal commitment to transitional services for work and other aspects of life. Thirteen model programs in California and eight in other states are summarized. A…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Demonstration Programs, Education Work Relationship
Carlson, Charles R.; Paine, Miriam – 1974
Guidelines resulting from a demonstration project to test approaches and methods in providing direct educational opportunities to the aging are provided. The sections of this book of guidelines are: Introduction--Why This Book of Guidelines (A Philosophy for Developing Educational Programs for the Aging, Basic Facts About the Aging, and The Aging…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Course Descriptions, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs
Jameson, Devi – 1988
California's Education Transition Center has developed a network of exemplary collaborative transition programs which agree to provide site visitors with information about school, community, and private programs that can improve school-to-adult-life transition services for "at risk" students. This document contains guidelines prepared to…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities
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Briccetti, Katherine A. – American Annals of the Deaf, 1988
A model program for severely emotionally disturbed hearing-impaired adolescents evolved in Santa Cruz County (California). A private day school program integrated its activities with a group home; Individualized Education Programs were designed jointly with residential treatment plans; and residential and school staff maintained a behavioral…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Cooperative Planning, Day Schools
Stroul, Beth A.; And Others – 1992
The case studies contained in this document were developed as part of a national project to identify communities that have made substantial progress toward developing comprehensive, coordinated, community-based systems of care for children and adolescents with serious emotional disturbances and their families. After initial identification,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Children
Coffey, Janis Cox; And Others – 1983
During a pilot project on the state role in facilitating adult learning, six states were asked (1) to establish and maintain a participatory planning mechanism for gathering information and building consensus among the public and private agencies and institutions within their states and (2) to use that mechanism in formulating policy…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Demography, Demonstration Programs, Educational Needs
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. – 1977
The purpose of the project reported here involving six high schools and one community college in California was to implement and evaluate consumer education curriculum models comprised of instructional modules developed by teachers in each of the participating schools. After presenting a brief overview of the project, this report describes the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Consumer Education, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Campbell, Patrick; And Others – 1993
This final report describes the PEERS (Providing Education for Everyone in Regular Schools) Project, a 5-year collaborative systems change project in California to facilitate the integration of students with severe disabilities who were previously served at special centers into services at regular schools and the integration of students in special…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Compliance (Legal), Demonstration Programs, Disabilities
National Committee for Children and Youth, Washington, DC. – 1967
The national problem resulting from the inability of large numbers of youth to meet educational requirements for military enlistment was described in the 1966 report (see VT 005 531). Part I of this report contains an analysis of the efforts of the National Committee for Children and Youth (NCCY) to help this youthful population in Baltimore,…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Educational Needs, Educationally Disadvantaged, Employment Services
Wilson, Milton P. – 1973
The purpose of the demonstration programs in intensive instruction for low-achieving students was essentially to enable school districts to establish and operate exemplary and innovative projects to improve the competence of junior high school students in reading and mathematics. Thirteen original projects moved into their third year of operation…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth, Individualized Instruction
Urban and Rural Systems Associates, San Francisco, CA. – 1977
This draft report on the development and testing of a child care Provider Services Network (PSN) model in Santa Clara County, California, includes a handbook (Manual to Optimize a PSN) designed to provide the State Department of Education and regional or local child care coordinating agencies with information needed to develop PSN optimization…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Child Caregivers, Community Coordination, Community Organizations
SEXTON, PATRICIA CAYO
IN THIS STUDY OF EXPERIMENTAL AND DEMONSTRATION BASIS EDUCATION PROJECTS FOR DISADVANTAGED YOUTHS, VISITS WERE MADE TO THE JOB UPGRADING PROJECT (NORTH RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA), THE MAYOR'S YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROJECT (DETROIT), THE LANE COUNTY YOUTH PROJECT (EUGENE, OREGON), JOB OPPORTUNITIES, THROUGH BETTER SKILLS (CHICAGO), THE YMCA…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Audiovisual Aids, Blacks, Class Size
Durham, Diana J.; Kennedy, Virginia E. – 1979
These resumes and citations provide information on inservice training opportunities, model programs, and resources for California vocational educators working with exceptional adolescents and young adults in vocational programs. The four divisions of the document are (1) inservice training opportunities, (2) model sites, (3) resources, and (4)…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Bibliographies, Demonstration Programs, Directories
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