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Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1984
This hearing before the Senate Subcommittee on Family and Human Services of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources celebrates strengths of American families by receiving testimony from seven families participating in one of three panel presentations. The first panel explores both the barriers to adoption and their transcendence by adoptive…
Descriptors: Adoption, Awards, Early Parenthood, Family Life
Brand, Mellie R. – 1986
The Family and Life Education program at Aims Community College (ACC) in Colorado began in 1967 as prenatal classes taught by volunteer instructors who were registered nurses with backgrounds in maternal-child health. Currently, the program, which is co-sponsored by ACC and North Colorado Medical Center, involves a program coordinator, three staff…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Cooperative Programs, Family Life, Family Life Education
Smith, Sheila, Ed. – 1995
This volume examines two-generation interventions as models that represent a new approach to assisting families in poverty. Five of the chapters examine current programs--their design, characteristics of participants, implementation issues, and in one case, evaluation outcomes. Other chapters offer a research and policy context for this…
Descriptors: Childhood Needs, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Life, Family Literacy
Walter, Gaye R. – 1993
This manual is a guide from the Montana State Library for libraries interested in setting up a family reading program with a multicultural theme. The purpose of a family reading program is to encourage reading and foster an enjoyment of reading among children and families. This manual contains an introduction which gives planning information,…
Descriptors: Childrens Libraries, Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Family Life
Dingle Associates, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1976
This paper describes the assessment procedures used by the Child and Family Resource Program (CFRP) to identify and address the needs of families and of individual family members. CFRP was developed as part of the Head Start Improvement and Innovation effort to provide individualized comprehensive developmental services to families with children…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Coordination, Family Life, Family Problems
Kamerman, Sheila B., Ed.; Kahn, Alfred J., Ed. – 1978
This collection of articles by scholars and policy makers from 14 countries presents multidisciplinary perspectives on the formation of national policy on families. Central topics common to many of the articles include: (1) the differences between policies aimed at affecting the family and policies which have other aims but which do influence the…
Descriptors: Books, Child Rearing, Comprehensive Programs, Cross Cultural Studies
Armijo, Eduardo J.; Yount, Darrell E. – 1995
This report outlines the Quillayute Valley Child and Family Consortium's End of Year Readiness to Learn program activities, including outcomes through May 1995. The program was established in part by the Washington State Readiness to Learn Initiative, designed to help children benefit from schooling by enabling schools and social services…
Descriptors: Activities, At Risk Persons, Case Studies, Caseworkers
National Council on Family Relations, Minneapolis, MN. – 1994
These conference proceedings contain short abstracts of major sessions from the conference of the National Council on Family Relations held in observance of the 1994 United Nations International Year of the Family. Topics for the sessions were wide ranging, and included: (1) parenting and parent education; (2) marriage and family relationships;…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Cultural Influences, Family Attitudes, Family Caregivers
