The 2012 Transmedia Demonstration Stations program study is part of the multiyear CPB-PBS "Ready To Learn" summative evaluation initiative by Education Development Center, Inc., (EDC) and SRI International (SRI). Through a series of related studies, the authors are documenting, and, whenever possible, measuring the impact of PBS KIDS…

Describes the Protective Services Program of the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services, which was instrumental in making available a statewide emergency fund for use in protective services casework. The development of the emergency fund and its effect on the reduction of child abuse or neglect is discussed. (CM)

A demonstration project designed to increase the number and quality of Family Day Care Homes available to Work Incentive (WIN) program clients in three Kansas communities was evaluated. All results are based on project trainees' voluntary, written responses to pretraining and posttraining questionnaires. Data on the trainees' background including…

After five years of experience the Colorado State Hospital's Community Services Team has developed a dynamic treatment model utilizing college students as child care workers, and using community schools and resources in order to maintain an optimistic viewpoint for the patient and to avoid institutionalization. Treatment is offered to the…

This report presents information on the characteristics, fees, and revenue sources of the formal child care providers used by the four community-based organizations that operated programs in the Minority Female Single Parent demonstration programs initiated by the Rockefeller Foundation in 1982. The demonstration provided funding to selected…

This report details the development and evaluation of a model program for inservice training of full-time child day care personnel. Based on a survey of licensed day care centers in Virginia, the program involved 100 participants, ranging from day care aides through center directors. The 10-week training element was presented three successive…

The residential treatment program described here emphasizes the involvement of parents in their children's treatment. Positive findings from a follow-up study suggest that parental involvement is directly related to children's treatment gains. (Author)

The responsibility of the Child Care Worker Training Project was to train 500 unemployed people from five cities in an experimental and demonstration project designed to overcome the shortage of child care personnel. Each of the centers (Baltimore, Chicago, Cleveland, Newark and New York) developed its own method of recruitment, short-term…

In any consideration of the ways in which intergenerational child care meets the needs of parents and children, attention should be given to the needs of the older persons who are involved in significant numbers in the child care work force. Individuals over the age of 65 account for 25 percent of U.S. family day care providers, 13 percent of…

The document contains the final report of the Special Programs for Individualized Needs (SPIN) program designed to develop a demonstration model for training day care personnel to identify developmentally delayed or emotionally disturbed children and to program for them within the regular day care setting. Major objectives were to develop…

One of a series of Education for Parenthood manuals developed for use in Salvation Army demonstration projects for teenagers, this guide outlines a course intended to train young people for child care careers or parenthood. Students who have completed the course may become leaders and/or workers in community centers, nursery schools, day care…

Discusses ways in which child care program directors can provide a model of good early childhood education in their training visits to classrooms. Presents a workshop format and agenda for training early childhood education teachers in observation skills. (GLR)

Describes the Child Development Associate program, administered by the Council for Early Childhood Professional Recognition. (BB)

A demonstration project using young men as day care workers in the Early Learning and Child care centers in Atlanta is described. The proposal for the demonstration project and a progress report are given. Four white advantaged and four black disadvantaged male high school students were recruited to work as caregivers for black and white boys and…

Through the professional expertise of the Boys and Girls Club of Escondido, California, CARE Boosters, a 3-year demonstration project, developed an employer-sponsored dependent day care system that provided small group care in home settings for children and the developmentally disabled. By linking family day care providers and other caregivers in…