Describes the Health Advocacy Training Project (HAT), Medical College of Pennsylvania Child Development Program, in which day care program staff members are given technical assistance and training in health practices and advocacy they can use in designing a health component for their own programs. (SDH)

This paper describes the Gallaudet University Child Development Center (an early childhood program serving the children of university staff, faculty, and students), focusing on its model integration program at the Kendall Demonstration Elementary School (District of Columbia). The program uses a "split placement" model to promote…

Designed for use by persons interested in simultaneously initiating a child-care and parent literacy instructional program, this handbook presents a model for the literacy education of families with young children. The handbook begins with definitions of family literacy and discusses the rationale and purpose of a family literacy program. Part 1…

This report describes the goals and concepts underlying the Day Care Youth Helper Program (DCYHP) and the history of demonstration projects through 1975. DCYHP was designed to provide young people of high school and junior high school age with the chance to work with preschool children through field experience in day care centers, coupled with a…