This document is part of a series of monographs on community-based services for children and adolescents who are severely emotionally disturbed. The series is the product of a national study of community-based service approaches, which identified over 200 programs serving emotionally disturbed children and included visits to several programs…

Nurseries in Cross-Cultural Education (NICE) initiated and implemented a 5-year program involving three nursery schools in preventive mental health in a San Francisco poverty area. It was a demonstration project carried out to study processes of involving inner-city families in coping with problems that often overwhelm city dwellers. NICE focused…