Home-based intervention services for emotionally disturbed youth are also commonly known as in-home services, family-centered services, family-based services, intensive family services, or family preservation services. They have developed as a way to deal with serious family problems that often result in the removal of a child or adolescent from…

Presents information from interviews for Amish Study, study undertaken to understand, from rural family's perspective, experience of having received in-home family services. Describes barriers to service found by rural families and presents two cases from Amish Study. Considers need for outreach to rural families. (NB)

This description of the Cedar Valley Hospice program emphasizes palliative and supportive care for terminally ill patients and their families. The history of the hospice movement is outlined along with a description of the Cedar Valley program and the results of a 1980 program evaluation. The appendices contain a statement of the hospice goals and…