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Toward the Development of a Program Evaluation Business Model: Promoting the Longevity of Counselling in Schools.
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Ernst, Kelly; Hiebert, Bryan – Canadian Journal of Counselling, 2002
Presents a model of comprehensive guidance and counseling integrated within a business context. Concludes that using program evaluation to position counseling as a business with effective service products may enhance the long-term viability of comprehensive guidance and counseling programs. (Contains 48 references.) (GCP)
Descriptors: Business, Comprehensive Guidance, Comprehensive Programs, Counseling Services
Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative: Pinellas County, Florida.
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Armstrong, Kathleen Hague; Massey, Oliver T.; Boroughs, Michael; Bailey, Ralph; LaJoie, Diane – Psychology in the Schools, 2003
The Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative in Pinellas County, FL, emerged as a part of a broader local effort to implement creative educational and mental health programs to support children and families. Describes Pinellas County's plan, and highlights the instrumental roles played by school psychologists, which included grant writing, program…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Health Promotion, Mental Health, Program Evaluation
Promoting Safe Schools and Healthy Students in Rural Pennsylvania.
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Welsh, Janet; Domitrovich, Celene E.; Bierman, Karen; Lang, Joann – Psychology in the Schools, 2003
Describes the Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) Initiative currently underway in the Tyrone Area School District. The goals of the SS/HS Initiative involve reducing risk and building competencies for students and their families through integration of law enforcement and mental health into school-based prevention efforts. Program evaluation is…
Descriptors: Comprehensive Programs, Health Promotion, Mental Health, Prevention
Helping Seventh Graders Be Safe and Successful: A Statewide Study of the Impact of Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Programs.
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Lapan, Richard T.; Gysbers, Norman C.; Petroski, Gregory F. – Professional School Counseling, 2003
Examines the relationship between statewide implementation of comprehensive guidance and counseling programs and indicators of success and safety for seventh graders (N=22,601). Students attending schools with more fully implemented comprehensive programs reported: feeling safer attending schools; having better relationships with their teachers;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comprehensive Programs, Counseling Effectiveness, Grade 7
Helping Seventh Graders Be Safe and Successful: A Statewide Study of the Impact of Comprehensive Guidance and Counseling Programs.
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Lapan, Richard T.; Gysbers, Norman C.; Petroski, Gregory F. – Journal of Counseling & Development, 2001
Examines the relationship between statewide implementation of comprehensive guidance and counseling programs and indicators of success and safety for seventh graders (N=22,601). Students attending schools with more fully implemented comprehensive programs reported: feeling safer attending schools; having better relationships with their teachers;…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comprehensive Programs, Counseling Effectiveness, Grade 7
Changing Family Trends--Head Start Must Respond.
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Washington, Valora; Oyemade, Ura Jean – Young Children, 1985
Discusses four trends in family life which are particularly affecting Head Start and other programs serving low-income families (1) feminization of poverty, (2) teenage parenting, (3) increasing number of employed mothers, and (4) increasing challenges to attaining economic self-sufficiency. Explores the implications of these trends for Head Start…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Comprehensive Programs, Early Parenthood, Economic Opportunities