Steps in establishing a community-supported foster group home are described. Efforts to begin the group home, now in its fifth year of existence, included community education, community organization, and work with individual community members. (Author/DB)

Presents basic concepts and techniques for developing an effective, supportive program for supervising child care workers in residential facilities. (CM)

Matching Needs and Services (MNS) is a practice tool intended to help people who work with vulnerable children use rigorously assembled information on needs as a guide to design, implement, and evaluate more-effective services. To do this, MNS focuses on needs but links them to outcomes and thresholds before dealing with the services to achieve…

This article presents findings from a consultation project conducted by faculty from six schools of social work with approximately 150 child welfare supervisors over a two-year period. The purpose of the program was to assist supervisors with their roles as educators, mentors, and coaches for casework staff, specifically in relationship to case…

This paper sorts out the kinds of information policy makers need at the community level, suggests ways to acquire kinds of information especially relevant and difficult to obtain, and indicates the range of options open to communities in developing day care programs. (Author)

A combination of many factors indicates that during this decade the number of children requiring day care will increase enormously. Planning the expansion of day care services to meet this need involves public policy decisions on several fronts--welfare, manpower, education--with possibilities of great benefit or loss to society. (Author/WY)

This article offers a framework for training child welfare workers and supervisors to stop and prevent foster care drift and to achieve permanency goals. (Author/DB)

Describes a residential treatment program for emotionally disturbed children which used a computerized method for cross-confirming information about the functioning of children. (CM)

Describes the roles of case manager and home visitor in relation to handicapped infants, toddlers, and their families. Strongly advocates combining the roles in this service. (SAK)

Demonstrates how one community family life education agency deals with pressures for and against sex education, describing the agency's philosophy and curriculum and providing suggestions for strategic planning. (MP)

Suggests a framework for a family-centered residential group care model for children in acute crisis. The model aims at achieving a permanent discharge for the children as soon as possible. (CM)

Describes a workshop which focused on preparing adults for a family life education program in their community. (CM)

A review of the current status of children who were placed in foster care in New York City as infants or as preschool children. Emphasizes the need to stress plans for permanency. A supplement on data from upstate New York is appended. (BD)

Special skills are required for foster parenting adequate to the needs of today's foster children. This paper describes how one agency planned and implemented the first components of a comprehensive, long-range program of foster parent education. (SDH)

Describes a program to recruit and train foster parents in a Hispanic community. Two child welfare agencies collaborate in running the program and use a bilingual staff. (CM)