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Download full textLove, John M.; Kisker, Ellen Eliason; Ross, Christine M.; Schochet, Peter Z.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne; Boller, Kimberly; Paulsell, Diane; Fuligni, Allison Sidle; Berlin, Lisa J. – 2001
Early Head Start began with 68 programs in 1995 and today, almost 650 programs serve some 55,000 low-income families with infants and toddlers. This two-generation program provides high-quality child and family development services, a focus on staff development, and a commitment to community partnerships. A rigorous national evaluation, including…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Family Programs, Infants, Low Income Groups
Roberts, Rosemary, Ed. – 2001
The Peers Early Education Partnership (PEEP) has been in operation in Oxford, England for 5 years, with the aim of raising educational attainment, especially in literacy, by an entire community of children from their birth. This book recounts how PEEP started and its operation over the 5 years, focusing on the impact of the program and the…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Early Intervention, Family Programs, Foreign Countries
O'Connor, Pat – 1999
Dramatic increases in single parenthood and the number of employed mothers have led to the articulation of policies and programs designed to strengthen the family in Ireland. This report examines the experience of Community Mothers' Programme in Limerick City. Based on the assumption that the understanding, advice, and support of an experienced…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Family Programs, Foreign Countries, Home Visits
Peer reviewedGilliam, Walter S.; Ripple, Carol H.; Zigler, Edward F.; Leiter, Valerie – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2000
Argues that shortcomings in program implementation and evaluation contributed to failure to demonstrate effectiveness of the Comprehensive Child Development Program (CCDP). Articulates lessons from the CCDP, including addressing roles of demonstration projects and their evaluations, problems in evaluation early in program implementation, the…
Descriptors: Demonstration Programs, Early Intervention, Family Programs, Home Visits
Peer reviewedGoodson, Barbara D.; Layzer, Jean I.; St. Pierre, Robert G.; Bernstein, Lawrence S. – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2000
Responds to Gilliam et al.'s critique of evaluation of the Comprehensive Child Development Program (CCDP). Restates the policy implications of the study and comments on the design of the intervention and the evaluation. Concludes with remarks on how evaluation and research should be used to help low-income families. (Author/KB)
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Family Programs, Home Visits, Low Income Groups
Direct linkChang, Young Eun; Huston, Aletha C.; Crosby, Danielle A.; Gennetian, Lisa A. – Economics of Education Review, 2007
We examine the effects of 10 welfare and employment programs on single mothers' use of Head Start for their 3- to 4-year-old children, considering concurrent program effects on employment, income, and the use of other types of childcare settings. In general, these welfare and employment experiments increased parental employment and the use of…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Employment Programs, One Parent Family, Mothers
Williams, Jason; McWilliams, Alisa; Mainieri, Tina; Pecora, Peter J.; La Belle, Karin – Child Welfare, 2006
While family-based placement prevention services, family reunification programs, subsidized guardianship, and aggressive adoption programs are reducing the numbers of children spending long periods of time in substitute care, a significant number of America's children will come of age in foster care. Agencies and policymakers should use research…
Descriptors: Validity, Foster Care, Followup Studies, Family Programs
Corso, Robert; Brekken, Linda; Ducey, Cheryl; Knapp-Philo, Joanne – Zero to Three, 2006
This article describes The Hilton/Early Head Start Training Program, a public-private partnership between the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation and the Head Start Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families. The purpose of the training program was to develop skills and strategies for including infants…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Disabilities, Toddlers, Infants
Connell, James P., Ed.; And Others – 1995
The Roundtable on Comprehensive Community Initiatives for Children and Families is a forum in which persons involved in the current generation of community-based cross-systems can engage in discussion about their work. Roundtable members, now numbering 30, meet biannually to share lessons they are learning and to work on common problems they face.…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Community Programs, Conferences, Evaluation Methods
Ounce of Prevention Fund. – 1995
In 1986, the Ounce of Prevention Fund undertook an ambitious project: creating and operating a family support program for young families with infants and toddlers in the Robert Taylor Homes public housing development in Chicago. The program was the outreach function of the Center for Successful Child Development (CSCD). The CSCD, a comprehensive,…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Health, Early Childhood Education, Family Programs
North Carolina Univ., Chapel Hill. Frank Porter Graham Center. – 1995
Smart Start is North Carolina's partnership between state government and local leaders, service providers, and families to better serve children under six years and their families to ensure that all children start school healthy and prepared to succeed. Local Smart Start partnerships spent much of their first year formulating long-term plans,…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Day Care, Early Childhood Education, Family Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1992
These transcripts provide testimony given on the implementation of the Even Start Family Literacy Program, a program designed to help parents work with their children to improve the educational opportunities for both. Prepared statements and testimony was given by John T. MacDonald, Assistant Secretary for Elementary and Secondary Education,…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Early Childhood Education, Family Involvement, Family Literacy
Alter, Judith S.; And Others – 1982
The project staff for "Teaching Parents to Be the Primary Sexuality Educators of Their Children" designed and implemented a curriculum for use with diverse parent groups and evaluated the impact of the course. This report on the results of the evaluation includes: (1) a review of studies of the content and impact of parent-child communication…
Descriptors: Course Content, Curriculum Development, Elementary Secondary Education, Evaluation Criteria
Seitz, Victoria; And Others – 1989
Effects of a small but intensive family support program provided to impoverished inner-city parents who had had a healthy firstborn child during the period of 1968-1970, were examined. Services were: (1) based on a clinical, family-support model; (2) individually tailored to each family; (3) provided by a team of pediatricians, social workers,…
Descriptors: Family Programs, Family Size, Followup Studies, Intervention
Orthner, Dennis, Ed.; Sprenkle, Douglas, Ed. – 1973
This booklet attempts to provide prospective graduate students with information written by students already pursuing degrees in the universities that offer graduate study of the family. In addition to general descriptions of programs, the booklet discusses such issues as faculty availability and concern for graduate students, the general…
Descriptors: Faculty Evaluation, Family Programs, Family (Sociological Unit), Fellowships
