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Download full textBridget A. Walsh; Sarah N. Mitchell; Emmanuel Kyeremeh Addai; Matthew Aguirre; Keira M. Hambrick – Journal of Human Sciences & Extension, 2024
While research demonstrates that family support is essential for doctoral students, research detailing institutional efforts to involve families is limited. We developed the GAIN Scholars program, consisting of two 3-week-long boot camps for incoming first-generation and historically marginalized doctoral students. Quantitative data were collected…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, First Generation College Students, Doctoral Students, Disadvantaged
Direct linkAna Maria Meléndez Guevara; Sarah Lindstrom Johnson; Charlie Wall; Kristina Lopez – Grantee Submission, 2024
Service engagement is critical when working with children and families experiencing chronic adversities because of their socially marginalized status. Further, sociodemographic disparities exist in service engagement within service systems including Community-Based Behavioral Health; likely in part, a result of structural issues driving…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Children, Disadvantaged, Sociocultural Patterns
Hindman, Annemarie H.; Wasik, Barbara A. – NHSA Dialog, 2010
Although the Head Start program places great emphasis on family involvement, educators do not currently have a brief but comprehensive measure to collect information from families about the kinds of learning experiences they provide for children at home. The current study explored the utility of the Family Literacy Survey, a parent-report survey…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Family Involvement, Preschool Children, Family Literacy
Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2013
Making Connections was the Annie E. Casey Foundation's signature place-based, community-change initiative of the 2000s. It sought to build on previous work and launch an effort focused firmly on the framework of family strengthening. The Foundation started Making Connections in 22 places, focusing eventually on first 10, then seven sites. It…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Change Strategies, Program Development, Program Implementation
Conrad, Rowan W.; Fenenbock, Michael C. – 1975
The document describes the Mountain-Plains career education model and discusses its implications for higher education. The Mountain-Plains Education and Economic Development Program, Inc., is a non-profit corporation chartered by the State of Montana and funded through the National Institute of Education for a five-year cycle of research and…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Adult Programs, Career Education
Perkins, David; Mendel, Dick – 1989
This document explains an intergenerational literacy project, established by the Kenan Trust in 1988, in which more than 300 adults and children have participated at 7 pilot sites in North Carolina and Kentucky and for which an additional 22 sites in 11 states are planned. The first section relates one participant's experience with the project.…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Community Programs
