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Download full textIllinois Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities, Springfield. – 1991
This brochure presents an overview of the eight trial Family Support Programs in Illinois which attempt to meet needs of families of children with disabilities in order to enable such children to remain with their families and avoid institutional placements. Principles of family support are listed, including its focus on whole families and meeting…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities, Family Programs
Peer reviewedEber, Lucille; And Others – Exceptional Children, 1997
Describes a process, wraparound planning, for extending educational services to students with emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD) and their families. A merger of community and school-based wraparound is being implemented in pilot school districts in Illinois. Guidelines for implementing school-based wraparound for students with EBD are…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Behavior Disorders, Demonstration Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Illinois Literacy Resource Development Center, Rantoul. – 1991
Seven model family literacy programs in Illinois were monitored for one year to determine successful program components and characteristics and to assist local programs in developing and implementing practical evaluation systems. Six were networking programs each of which involved several agencies, and one program was designed on a center-based…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Demonstration Programs, Educational Change, Educational Practices
Fuller, Gerald R.; Phipps, Lloyd J. – 1968
A project for developing an effective vocationally-oriented educational program to utilize the capabilities of economically and socially handicapped rural youth was divided into five major phases: (1) an in-depth study of the characteristics of a cross section of families in which the model educational program was tried, (2) an in-depth study of…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Evaluation, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Thompson, Lisa; Uyeda, Kimberly – UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, 2004
The federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) has launched a five-year initiative that will support state efforts to build comprehensive early childhood service systems. This initiative--the State Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems (SECCS) Initiative--provides planning and implementation grants to the state and territory Maternal and…
Descriptors: Child Health, Family Programs, Leadership, Home Visits
Bloom, Dan; Anderson, Jacquelyn; Wavelet, Melissa; Gardiner, Karen N.; Fishman, Michael E. – 2002
The Employment Retention and Advancement (ERA) project was undertaken to identify effective strategies for helping low-income parents work more steadily and advance in the labor market. The 15 ERA demonstration projects that were operating in nine states (California, Florida, Illinois, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, South Carolina; Tennessee, and…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Ladders, Case Studies, Caseworker Approach
