Describes a program of integrated services and treatment modalities for severely disturbed adolescents. (BD)

Describes the Community Systems initiative, a collaborative project underway in Ontario to involve neighborhood residents, broad community networks, government, and nongovernmental organizations in the support of children and families. The initiative's goal is to improve the well-being of children, youth, and their families by finding ways to use…

Describes the services of a community-based center providing social services to adolescent parents who cannot yet function independently and who had not previously been served. Emphasis is placed on continuity of services and on cooperation with existing educational, medical, and social institutions. (Author/DB)

Describes a project at Fort Riley, Kansas, combining military, community and private resources and stressing parent education and problems of isolation and self-concept. (SS)

Describes a program of alternative care for disturbed children which is a joint project of a psychiatric treatment center and a child welfare agency. (BR)

A useful resource for child care agencies is the cooperative, mother-run preschool, which offers mothers perspective, identity, emotional support, and socially approved respite from their children. The association with other mothers has the greatest positive effect. (MH)

Collaboration in behavior modification among consultants, administrators and teaching staff was found effective in solving child management problems in a day care center. (GO)

Cooperation of public and private agencies in new system of multiservice centers is discussed as a partial solution to urgent child welfare needs. (NH)