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Early Lessons Learned from Building Local Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems in Texas
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Osborne, Cynthia; Bobbitt, Kaeley C.; Boelter, Jill M.; Ayrhart, Tracy K. – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2014
In 2010, the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV), provided states with the opportunity to apply for funding to build and expand evidence-based home visiting programs in their states and to incorporate community collaboration components, referred to as early childhood comprehensive systems (ECCS). For Texas, this…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Home Visits, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation
Melding Infant Mental Health and Multisystemic Therapy Approaches to Community-Based Treatment
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Willoughby, Jay C.; Carubia, Beau A.; Murgolo, Marisa A.; Carter, Debbie R.; Frankel, Karen A. – ZERO TO THREE, 2013
A recent partnership between the Irving Harris Program in Child Development and Infant Mental Health and the Community Based Psychiatry Program at University of Colorado Hospital joined two different approaches to child mental health treatment: infant mental health and multisystemic therapy (MST). This article illustrates the compatibility of…
Descriptors: Child Development, Mental Health, Infants, Substance Abuse
What Other Communities Are Doing...National Education Goal #1.
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Department of Education, Washington, DC. – 1992
Suggestions for helping communities achieve the first National Education Goal--by the year 2000, all children will start school ready to learn--are presented in this document. The ways in which readiness is developed and what communities can do to support families are described. Examples are provided of 13 community projects that are preparing…
Descriptors: Child Development, Community Planning, Community Support, Educational Objectives
Parenting in the 21st Century: A Return to Community
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Bogan, Yolanda K. H. – Negro Educational Review, The, 2004
Parents are potentially the most influential individuals in children's lives. The 21st Century parent has to compete, however, with multiple sources of information, both human and nonhuman, (e.g. children's peers, non-familial adults, TV, technology gadgets, Internet) in shaping the minds, values, and beliefs of children. In the absence of a…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Adolescents, Parenting Styles, Community Involvement
Physically Healthy and Ready to Learn. Technical Assistance Paper No. 1
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US Department of Health and Human Services, Head Start Bureau, 2006
This Technical Assistance Paper offers guidance to programs regarding the implementation of the "Head Start Program Performance Standards" on child health and developmental services, child health and safety, and child nutrition. The paper examines how physical health influences children's development and how child health and development…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Physical Health, Technical Assistance, Physical Activities
Integrating Federal Statistics on Children. Report of a Workshop (Washington, D.C., March 31-April 1, 1994).
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. – 1995
The Workshop on Integrating Federal Statistics on Children provided a forum for assessing strengths and shortcomings of existing and proposed federal statistical data sources for children and families. In particular, these data sources were assessed with respect to their capacity to fill the most pressing information needs of those who formulate,…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Development, Child Health, Children