The Baby Steps Program (Easter Seals of New Hampshire, 2003) is a child-find program that introduces developmental specialists into health care settings to conduct developmental screenings with children during well-child visits. This article presents the Baby Steps Program model, summaries of screening and referral data, and the results of 3 focus…

Research investigating neighborhood effects on children and families has been largely deficit and individual-focused, investigated structural variables, and has typically produced equivocal findings and small effect sizes. We suggest an approach focused on community strengths and resources that stresses the role of measures of social interaction…

This study in Spain explored three aspects of older adult volunteering (motivations, satisfaction, and perceptions of benefits and drawbacks) and examines to what extent these aspects are influenced by the type of organization and other factors (sociodemographic variables and level of volunteering). The sample consisted of 88 older adults…

This study tested a model of the effects of different predictors on individuals' levels of fear of crime in Dallas neighborhoods. Given its dual focus on individual perceptions and community-level interactions, social capital theory was selected as the most appropriate framework to explore fear of crime within the neighborhood milieu. A structural…

Results of interviews with 152 neglectful mothers and 154 non-neglectful mothers, matched on race, economic status, urban/rural status, and other life circumstances, revealed that neglectful mothers reported less support available from informal networks and described their neighborhoods as less friendly and helpful than did the controls.…

Describes a service to parents that connected those experiencing urgent parenting needs with individuals and agencies capable of providing help. (RH)

Examines the idea of using community resources to relieve the pressures on students, parents, and teachers. (JOW)

Neighborhood Extension of Activity Therapy (NEAT) is a structured transitional-discharge activity program for psychiatric patients which uses existing community resources. (Editors)

Carkhuff has systematically traced the development of human resource development models. Numerous responses to his theories are presented. (BY)

Described briefly are community resources (educational, material, and recreational) used by a rehabilitation teacher of the blind in one state district during one year. (KW)

Services provided by 40 pastors on behalf of mentally retarded persons and their families were investigated. Data displayed a wide range of services provided by the sample as a whole, revealed substantial individual differences, and showed clear preferences for some areas of service over others. (Author)

Community asset mapping is one approach to community assessment. According to Kretzmann and McKnight (1993), discovering the assets, capacities, and resources embedded in a community leads people to take responsibility for and ownership of rebuilding and renewing their community. Community mapping is a tool for consideration by family and consumer…

Space travel, even low Earth orbit, is probably several years away for most of us; however, students and teachers can research the edge of space by participating in the BalloonSat program. BalloonSat is an offshoot of the Space Grant Consortium's very successful RocketSat program. The Arkansas BalloonSat program consists of teacher-initiated…

Education finance has emerged as one of the most pressing public policy issues of the new century. Americans spend more than $500 billion a year on elementary and secondary education, yet neither policy-makers nor practitioners seems to know how to align these resources with student learning goals. In fact, spending increases have outstripped…

For the past century and more, music education in the United States has focused primarily on Western European music traditions. Despite considerable efforts to include music from other regions and peoples in the curriculum, traditional music from world cultures is still not greatly represented. The benefits of a curriculum that incorporates…