Describes development, objectives, program content, and evaluation of a model for training New Hampshire family day care providers. (MP)

Discusses the framework and service components of seven major community services which make up a model system of care for severely emotionally disturbed children and their families. (RJC)

Describes the activities of two Head Start programs, Murray Head Start in Murray, Kentucky, and Inn-Circle in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Both programs integrate families into wider communities, and bring community resources into their programs to better serve parents and children. Both programs illustrate how Head Start can become a community hub for…

Describes the Health Advocacy Training Project (HAT), Medical College of Pennsylvania Child Development Program, in which day care program staff members are given technical assistance and training in health practices and advocacy they can use in designing a health component for their own programs. (SDH)

Discusses a residential treatment program model for involving families in the education and training of their young multihandicapped children. Describes six developmental stages of family involvement. (HS)

Instead of offering a community a predetermined curriculum to be applied in its Head Start project, the Enabler Model would focus on helping local Head Start staff and parents plan and conduct a program of their own choosing, through the supportive assistance of an early childhood education specialist--the Enabler. (Author/CB)