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Torun Marie Vatne; Sigurd Skjeggestad Dahle; Yngvild Bjartveit Haukeland; Krister Westlye Fjermestad – Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities, 2023
Fathers in families with childhood disability have an important role in fostering coping and resilience in children. Insight into men's thoughts about fathering is necessary to provide family-centered interventions. The purpose of this study was to explore men's experience of being a father in families with childhood disability. Qualitative…
Descriptors: Males, Fathers, Parent Child Relationship, Family Relationship
Benjamin, Sarah – ZERO TO THREE, 2019
The ParentChild+ Program was created more than 50 years ago and has provided thousands of at-risk families across America with positive outcomes. Originally known as the Mother-Child Home Program and later, Parent-Child Home Program, the model is home visiting, reaching families affected by poverty and societal hardships. This article describes…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Home Visits, Low Income Groups, Disadvantaged
Zhou, You; Stewart, Arexy Bravo; Robinson, Jacquelyn D. – ZERO TO THREE, 2021
ParentChild+ is a national home visiting program dedicated to bridging the opportunity gap for families in marginalized communities. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the program worked more closely than ever with families and family care providers with young children to ensure they had the necessary tools and resources to support their children to…
Descriptors: Home Visits, COVID-19, Pandemics, Young Children
Gilpin, Ansley; Mennen, Ferol; Pakulak, Eric; Sommer, Teresa Eckrich; Dwyer, Kathleen M.; Cannon, Erin; Bell, Theodore; Boxmeyer, Caroline; Chase-Lansdale, P. Lindsay; Chor, Elise; DeCaro, Jason; Dela Cruz, Kenn Lacsamana; Giuliano, Ryan; Gomsrud, Melissa; Karns, Christina; Klein, Scott; Lochman, John; Longoria, Zayra; Molina, Abigail Palmer; Monro, William; Neville, Helen; O'Neil, Lauren; Reynolds, Mary Margaret; Sabol, Terri J.; Sclafani, Marisa; Tighe, Lauren A. – Administration for Children & Families, 2020
This brief introduces four research projects testing promising interventions funded under the Head Start University Partnerships (HSUP): Dual-Generation Approaches1 grant program. Two-generation approaches are typically designed to address problems associated with poverty by combining child-focused services with adult-focused services. Head Start…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Preschool Education, Early Intervention, Childhood Needs
Rosenblum, Kate; Muzik, Maria; Waddell, Rachel; Thompson, Stephanie; Rosenberg, Lauren; Masini, Gabriella; Smith, Karen – ZERO TO THREE, 2015
Military families frequently display remarkable resilience in the face of significant challenges, and yet deployment and parental separation are significant stressors for parents, particularly those with infants and young children. The Strong Military Families preventive intervention is a multifamily parenting and self-care skills group that aims…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Family Programs, Group Activities, Resilience (Psychology)
Quintana, Erica, Ed. – Morrison Institute for Public Policy, 2019
In the past few years, people have come to realize that family and child well-being are public health issues. Helping families and children be happy, healthy and resilient helps the larger community. This report will discuss various aspects of family life including the systems that exist to support them, ways families can have more positive…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Child Rearing, Child Development, Community Role
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Easterbrooks, M. Ann; Ginsburg, Kenneth; Lerner, Richard M. – Future of Children, 2013
In this article, the authors present their approach to understanding resilience among military connected young people, and they discuss some of the gaps in their knowledge. They begin by defining resilience, and then present a theoretical model of how young people demonstrate resilient functioning. Next they consider some of the research on…
Descriptors: Military Personnel, Military Service, Resilience (Psychology), Family Influence
Guarino, Kathleen; Bassuk, Ellen – Zero to Three (J), 2010
The prevalence of traumatic stress in the lives of families who are homeless is extraordinarily high. Often these families are headed by single mothers who have experienced ongoing trauma in the form of childhood abuse and neglect, domestic violence, and community violence, as well as the trauma associated with poverty and the loss of home,…
Descriptors: Family Violence, Homeless People, Child Abuse, Coping
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Eleweke, C. Jonah; Gilbert, Sharon; Bays, Debbie; Austin, Ellen – Deafness and Education International, 2008
This paper is concerned with reviewing some useful effects of information about support services provided to families of young children with hearing loss and the challenges of providing this information to families. Evidence indicates that 95 percent of young children with hearing loss have hearing parents. With no previous experience of hearing…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Hearing Impairments, Young Children, Family Programs
Chawarska, Katarzyna, Ed.; Klin, Ami, Ed.; Volkmar, Fred R., Ed. – Guilford Publications, 2008
Rich with clinical insights, this volume reviews the state of the science of identifying and treating autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in very young children. Leading authorities examine critical research issues and present innovative approaches to assessing social, cognitive, adaptive, communication, and sensory-motor impairments in the first two…
Descriptors: Autism, Toddlers, Disability Identification, Infants
Lapidus, Leah Blumberg – 1998
This paper describes a project designed to facilitate and evaluate child and family mental health in the community, inside and outside of Head Start programs. Also detailed is a study of the effects of "Community Impact" programs and 6-week, focused, group interventions for children and families in programs predicted to increase…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Development, Community Services, Coping
de Berry, Jo; Fazili, Anahita; Farhad, Said; Nasiry, Fariba; Hashemi, Sami; Hakimi, Mariam – 2003
Noting that helping war-affected children cope with the impact of conflict is a vital part of the post-war recovery of an entire society, this report details a qualitative study that used a series of focus group discussions with 7- to 18-year-olds and their families and participatory activities with children in Kabul, Afghanistan to gather…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Child Development, Childhood Attitudes
Gray, Aracelis; Szekely, Amanda – Finance Project, 2006
There is growing recognition of the impact of exposure to trauma on the social and emotional development of children and adolescents, and this recognition has spurred initiatives to improve the standard of care and increase the identification, diagnosis, and treatment of child trauma. Leaders of child traumatic stress (CTS) initiatives recognize…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Emotional Development, Coping, Stress Management