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Trunzo, Annette C.; Bishop-Fitzpatrick, Lauren; Strickler, Amy; Doncaster, James – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2012
Since the early 1950s, trends in children's mental health have moved care from residential and office-based treatment to community-based interventions. The Pressley Ridge Treatment Foster Care (PRTFC) program was developed in 1981 in response to these trends. Currently, Pressley Ridge provides PR-TFC treatment in 15 programs in six states and the…
Descriptors: Evidence, Children, Foster Care, Emotional Disturbances
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Coman, William; Devaney, John – Child Care in Practice, 2011
Despite huge investment over the past 10 years, improving outcomes for looked-after children remains elusive. A challenge for practitioners, researchers and policy-makers alike has been the absence of a shared conceptual framework for considering and responding to the needs of looked-after children. A second challenge relates to the measurement of…
Descriptors: Intervention, Child Care, Ecological Factors, Caseworker Approach
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Faure, Guy; Rebuffel, Pierre; Violas, Dominique – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2011
In West Africa, advisory services for family farms have been promoted to better address producers' needs. The paper aims to show that these services can be understood as a system whose functioning is strongly determined by the financing mechanisms, the governance mechanisms put in place, the quality of human resources delivering advice, and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Family Programs, Intervention, Case Studies