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Pressley Ridge Treatment Foster Care: The Model of Care Thirty Years Later
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Trunzo, Annette C.; Bishop-Fitzpatrick, Lauren; Strickler, Amy; Doncaster, James – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2012
Since the early 1950s, trends in children's mental health have moved care from residential and office-based treatment to community-based interventions. The Pressley Ridge Treatment Foster Care (PRTFC) program was developed in 1981 in response to these trends. Currently, Pressley Ridge provides PR-TFC treatment in 15 programs in six states and the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Children, Foster Care, Emotional Disturbances
Reflecting on Outcomes for Looked-After Children: An Ecological Perspective
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Coman, William; Devaney, John – Child Care in Practice, 2011
Despite huge investment over the past 10 years, improving outcomes for looked-after children remains elusive. A challenge for practitioners, researchers and policy-makers alike has been the absence of a shared conceptual framework for considering and responding to the needs of looked-after children. A second challenge relates to the measurement of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Child Care, Ecological Factors, Caseworker Approach
Systemic Evaluation of Advisory Services to Family Farms in West Africa
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Faure, Guy; Rebuffel, Pierre; Violas, Dominique – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2011
In West Africa, advisory services for family farms have been promoted to better address producers' needs. The paper aims to show that these services can be understood as a system whose functioning is strongly determined by the financing mechanisms, the governance mechanisms put in place, the quality of human resources delivering advice, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Programs, Intervention, Case Studies
How Person-Centred Is Active Support?
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Harman, Anthony D.; Sanderson, Helen – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2008
Much has been made of the advantages of active support and person-centred planning, both of which have gradually been evolving and changing over the last 25-30 years. The latter is now mandated in the UK as part of the "Valuing People" strategy on disability (Department of Health UK, 2001), and is also central to the follow-up policy…
Descriptors: Individualized Programs, Program Effectiveness, Foreign Countries, Design Requirements
Impact. Volume 22, Number 1, Summer-Fall 2009
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Gaylord, Vicki, Ed. – Institute on Community Integration (NJ1), 2009
How can families and early childhood professionals provide quality, inclusive early childhood education for young children with and without disabilities? That's the question posed in this "Impact "issue. In its pages, parents reflect on their experiences with early childhood education and inclusion for their children--what was helpful, what was…
Descriptors: Learning Theories, Early Intervention, Early Childhood Education, Disabilities
Improving Agricultural Extension Services through University Outreach Initiatives: A Case of Farmers in Model Villages in Ogun State, Nigeria
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Oloruntoba, Abayomi; Adegbite, Dorcas A. – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2006
University outreach is an educational and research-based information source enabling farmers to make decisions that improve the quality of their lives. This paper explores how collaborative efforts between the university and farmers have directly impacted in albeit Striga ("noxious witch weed") ravaged maize farms in rainforest farming…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Rural Extension, Information Sources, Foreign Countries