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Callard, Esther Dean, Comp.; Morin, Patricia E., Comp. – 1979
This report describes the Detroit, Michigan, Parents and Children Together (PACT) project which provides an intensive, home based intervention service to low-income families who have, or are at risk of having, a child placed in foster care. Part I of this report describes how staff members are selected and trained, how goals are formulated for…
Descriptors: Crisis Intervention, Family Problems, Family (Sociological Unit), Foster Children
Download full textMeehan, Merrill L.; Walsh, Sandra; Spring, Janet; Swisher, Angie; Lewis, Harry – 2000
The Even Start Family Literacy Program is a national program designed to break the cycle of poverty and illiteracy by working with low-income families to improve adult literacy, parenting skills, and developmental and preschool readiness of young children in the family. The Monongalia County (West Virginia) Even Start Program is unusual in that…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Early Childhood Education, Family Literacy, Family School Relationship
Texas Tech Univ., Lubbock. – 1980
Home-based intervention, using paraprofessional teachers and the concept of "parent as teacher," was provided by this 3-year project (1977-1980) for handicapped children aged birth through 4 and their families in 10 rural West Texas counties comprising approximately 9,100 square miles, with 14 to 20 people per square mile. Most families…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Family Involvement
