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Download full textKinch, Richard, Ed. – 1979
To discuss ways to help strengthen family systems was the purpose of a Wingspread Conference held in Racine, Wisconsin. The conference was sponsored by the Coalition for the White House Conference on Families, in cooperation with the Johnson Foundation. There are ten sections to the report, including a brief introduction which provides background…
Descriptors: Ethnicity, Family Life, Family Problems, Family Programs
Maas, Frank, Ed.; Sach, Susan, Ed. – 1984
This publication is an edited record of a series of public seminars held between June and October of 1983. The seminars, entitled "Community Based Services for Children and Families," were based on two policy background papers commissioned by the Institute of Family Studies (ISF) on the topics of family support and children's services.…
Descriptors: Children, Community Services, Family Life, Family Programs
Rosenmayr, Hilde, Ed. – 1995
The topic of these proceedings is maintaining the momentum of the International Year of the Family (IYF), with a view toward devising further actions and strengthening the interest in support for families. The seminar examined several aspects of family issues, such as: (1) the relationship between people and governments; (2) the need for more…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Early Childhood Education, Family Life, Family Programs
Orthner, Dennis K., Ed.; Chandler, Barbara A., Ed. – 1980
These proceedings of a pre-conference workshop on the quality of family life in the military begin with an overview and the texts of the introduction to the workshop. Three presentations providing an orientation to military family programs and policies are included. Enrichment and support needs of military families and research needs of military…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adults, Change Strategies, Counseling
United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, Paris (France). – 1995
The Malta World NGO Forum, which launched the International Year of the Family (IYF) 1994 presented many views supporting the theme of promoting families for the well-being of individuals and societies. This theme reflected the opinion that IYF should be an opportunity to integrate the achievements for family members of previous United Nations…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Family Life, Family Literacy, Family Problems
Forum--Children and Families. Report of Proceedings of a Seminar (Melbourne, Australia, March 1981).
Ochiltree, Gay, Ed. – 1981
Reported in this document are proceedings of a forum on the relationships between the child and the family. Held March 1981 in Melbourne, Australia, the forum was jointly sponsored by the Institute of Family Studies and the Victorian Child Development and Family Services Council (CDFSC). Specifically, the purpose of the forum was to enable…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Advocacy, Child Development, Childhood Attitudes
Bayley, Rosalind, Ed.; Condy, Ann, Ed.; Roberts, Ceridwen, Ed. – 1995
Concerned with the need to assess strategies for dealing with poverty and work concerns and to base British public policy on an appreciation of how different types of families are differentially affected by a changed labor market and an unchanged benefit system, this report compiles proceedings of seminars held in 1994 on the relationship between…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Consumer Economics, Economic Impact, Employed Parents
Greenhalgh, Claire – 1995
This report summarizes papers presented and the resulting discussions at a conference focused on key issues emerging from the 1994 United Nations International Year of the Family and how these issues should be reflected in policies for families in Great Britain. The papers addressed the following topics: (1) specific achievements of the United…
Descriptors: Divorce, Economic Factors, Economic Impact, Employed Parents
National Council on Family Relations, Minneapolis, MN. – 1994
These conference proceedings contain short abstracts of major sessions from the conference of the National Council on Family Relations held in observance of the 1994 United Nations International Year of the Family. Topics for the sessions were wide ranging, and included: (1) parenting and parent education; (2) marriage and family relationships;…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Cultural Influences, Family Attitudes, Family Caregivers
