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Early Lessons Learned from Building Local Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems in Texas
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Osborne, Cynthia; Bobbitt, Kaeley C.; Boelter, Jill M.; Ayrhart, Tracy K. – Journal of Applied Research on Children, 2014
In 2010, the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program (MIECHV), provided states with the opportunity to apply for funding to build and expand evidence-based home visiting programs in their states and to incorporate community collaboration components, referred to as early childhood comprehensive systems (ECCS). For Texas, this…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Home Visits, Program Implementation, Program Evaluation
Response of Organization and Community to a Deinstitutionalization Strategy.
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Spergel, Irving A.; And Others – Crime and Delinquency, 1982
Evaluates an Illinois statewide program to remove status offenders from detention. Found substantially fewer youths were referred to detention but more youths than expected were classified as detainable and subjected to court and agency processing. Suggest this may be due to organizational self-interest and the weakness of community structure.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Services, Community Support, Delinquency
Reducing Family Violence.
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Star, Barbara – Urban and Social Change Review, 1982
Presents results of research to identify and examine community-based, family violence intervention programs in the United States which provide alternatives to incarceration of assaulters. Describes different approaches used by programs and aspects of program development such as staffing, funding, community support, and program evaluation. (MJL)
Descriptors: Battered Women, Child Abuse, Community Services, Community Support
Integrating Federal Statistics on Children. Report of a Workshop (Washington, D.C., March 31-April 1, 1994).
National Academy of Sciences - National Research Council, Washington, DC. – 1995
The Workshop on Integrating Federal Statistics on Children provided a forum for assessing strengths and shortcomings of existing and proposed federal statistical data sources for children and families. In particular, these data sources were assessed with respect to their capacity to fill the most pressing information needs of those who formulate,…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Development, Child Health, Children
Final Report on the Youth Service Agency [the City of Rock Hill, South Carolina].
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Bisard, Michael W. – 1974
This final report contains an overall assessment of progress toward goals, a listing of positive and negative results, estimates of total project costs, man-years, and future, and an evaluation of the six project components for a comprehensive youth determined program in South Carolina, the Youth Service Agency. This program is said to have been…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Programs, Community Relations, Community Services
Maryland Statewide Project to Strengthen Community Service Programs in Institutions of Higher Education. Title I, HEA Final Project Report.
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Maryland Univ., College Park. Univ. Coll. – 1975
The first 38 pages of the document describe the project designed to develop a coordinated, comprehensive system to deliver community services and continuing education services throughout Maryland higher education institutions. Discussed are project objectives, operations, and accomplishments, the final evaluation summary, the impact on the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Involvement, Community Services, Community Support