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Direct linkCatherine A. Bent; Alexandra Aulich; Christos Constantine; Esther Fidock; Patrick Dwyer; Cherie Green; Jodie Smith; Ava N. Gurba; Lucas T. Harrington; Katherine E. Gore; Aspasia Stacey Rabba; Lauren N. Ayton; Kathryn Fordyce; Jonathan Green; Rachel Jellett; Lyndel J. Kennedy; Katherine E. MacDuffie; Shoba S. Meera; Linda R. Watson; Andrew J. O. Whitehouse; Kristelle Hudry – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
Emerging evidence suggests parenting supports implemented in the first 2 years of life may influence developmental outcomes for infants more likely to be Autistic. Yet questions remain about acceptability of these supports to the Autistic and autism communities. Through mixed-methods participatory research -- co-designed and produced by Autistic…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Community Attitudes, Infants, Community Surveys
Robin Henrikson; Daniel Bishop – Evaluation Review, 2024
This paper presents the process of conducting a community-wide needs assessment that initially focused on soliciting information about childcare needs of families with school-aged children. The researchers were interested in understanding whether the method designed to conduct the needs assessment helped to foster collaboration, trust, and…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Partnerships in Education, Stakeholders, Community Involvement
Ramos, Manica F.; Andrews, Kristine; Angeles-Figueroa, Joselyn; Rodriguez, Yosmary – Child Trends, 2023
In 2021 and 2022, the Endowment for Health, community members across New Hampshire, and Child Trends worked together to form the Early Childhood Equity Movement (ECEM). The ECEM is a collaboration that aims to address and improve access to services such as early care and education, health care, and other family services (e.g., housing or SNAP/EBT)…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Early Childhood Education, Partnerships in Education, Access to Education
LeMasters, Katherine H.; Bledsoe, Sarah E.; Brooks, Jada; Chavis, Stephanie; Little, Erica; Pevia, Kim; Daniel, Leah; Jordan, Kiva; Schindler, Ann; Lightfoot, Alexandra F. – Health Education & Behavior, 2022
Despite the persistent health inequities faced by rural women in the United States, few researchers have partnered with women in rural communities to co-create sustainable change. To fill this gap, Mothers Improving Pregnancy and Postpartum Health Outcomes Through stOry Sharing (MI-PHOTOS) employed a community-based participatory research (CBPR)…
Descriptors: Mothers, Rural Areas, Health Promotion, Public Health
Download full textCenter for the Study of Social Policy, 2020
The Strengthening Families Protective Factors Framework, developed by the Center for the Study of Social Policy (CSSP), has had a significant influence on how child- and family-serving programs operate and support healthy development and wellbeing. Many organizational partners and members of the Strengthening Families National Network are…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Community Programs, Social Justice, Needs Assessment
Adams, Chithra; Corbin, Amanda; O'Hara, Luke; Sheppard-Jones, Kathleen; Bishop, Malachy – Human Development Institute, 2018
In this research brief we present the results of a recent needs assessment evaluating the advocacy-based needs for Kentuckians with developmental disabilities and their families. Results highlight the different levels and types of supports needed to build self-advocacy capacity and to inform effective planning and services and the individual,…
Descriptors: Needs Assessment, Advocacy, Developmental Disabilities, Capacity Building
Bartlet, Nadine A.; Freeze, Trevi B. – Exceptionality Education International, 2018
An increasing number of children and youth have mental health disorders. To address this issue, federal and provincial mental health policymakers in Canada have recommended: (a) improving the coordination of services, and (b) increasing the role that schools play in providing supports. One way to operationalize these recommendations is to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Schools, Mental Disorders, Mental Health
King, Stephanie B. – Rural Educator, 2012
This study examined the perceptions of leaders of grant-supported projects aimed at increasing the college-going rate of high school students in rural Appalachian counties in Mississippi to determine which factors they felt most influenced the college-going rate, parental participation in school activities, and community participation. Analysis of…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Community Involvement, Counties, Workshops
Epstein, Joyce L.; Galindo, Claudia L.; Sheldon, Steven B. – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2011
Purpose: This study tests key constructs of sociocultural and organizational learning theories with quantitative methods to better understand the nature and impact of district and school leadership and actions on the quality of programs of family and community involvement. Research Design: Survey data from a "nested" sample of 24 districts and 407…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Community Involvement, Program Implementation, Program Development
Development Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1975
This document presents the appendix to the final report on the Child and Family Resource Program (CFRP), a Head Start-affiliated program designed to promote community and family involvement in fostering optimum development of preschool children. (The final report was contained in a series of documents, which included program descriptions from each…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Cost Effectiveness, Day Care, Family Involvement
Pittman, Karen Johnson; Irby, Merita; Tolman, Joel; Yohalem, Nicole; Ferber, Thaddeus – Forum for Youth Investment, 2003
This paper summarizes several major shifts that have occurred in the past 15 to 20 years in what researchers, policy makers and practitioners think about what young people need, what they get and where they get it. There have also been important shifts in thinking about what young people do, should and can do, and when it is reasonable to expect…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Youth Opportunities, Youth Problems, Theory Practice Relationship
Agosta, John M.; Howard, Anne – 1986
The report describes activities and findings of an 18-month project which surveyed day and other non-residential services provided to persons with mental retardation in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. An introductory section describes project purposes, followed by a description of project methods (sampling plan, questionnaire development,…
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Adults, Agency Role, Community Involvement
Development Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1975
This report describes the nation-wide evaluation of the Child and Family Resource Program (CFRP), a Head Start-affiliated program designed to elicit community and family involvement in fostering optimum development of preschool children and their families. Evaluations of the planning, initiation, and implementation phases of the program at each of…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Organizations, Day Care, Demography
1973
This symposium focuses on the development and uses of a comprehensive evaluation system within a long-term research and development project in primary education. Issues and problems associated with this development over the past four years are discussed. These issues and problems include: (1) eudcational accountability; (2) parent participation,…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Involvement, Computer Programs, Elementary Education
Banks, SusanRae – Multiple Voices for Ethnically Diverse Exceptional Learners, 2004
Educational reform presents a number of challenges for elders, tribal educational leaders, American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) teachers and administrators, and families across the United States, including the pressing need to address parent or caregiver and community involvement in education. This study was conducted to (a) summarize major…
Descriptors: Individualized Education Programs, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Community Involvement
