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Steps toward Scalability: Illustrations from a Smoke-Free Homes Program
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Kegler, Michelle C.; Haardörfer, Regine; Melanson, Taylor; Allen, Lindsey; Bundy, Lucja T.; Kreuter, Matthew W.; Williams, Rebecca S.; Hovell, Melbourne F.; Mullen, Patricia Dolan – Health Education & Behavior, 2019
Scalable interventions remain effective across a range of real-world settings and can be modified to fit organizational and community context. "Smoke-Free Homes: Some Things are Better Outside" has been effective in promoting smoke-free home rules in low-income households in efficacy, effectiveness, generalizability, and dissemination…
Descriptors: Health Promotion, Smoking, Family Environment, Intervention
Leadership Challenges for Juvenile Justice Program Schools
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Good, Christopher E. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Little to no professional research exists regarding the challenges that juvenile justice school administrators encounter in leading their respective schools. This study sought to identify the challenges juvenile justice school administrators experience and whether they are similar to those experienced by their K-12 counterparts. This study…
Descriptors: School Administration, Juvenile Justice, Administrator Attitudes, Principals
Parental Involvement of Mothers with Chronic Illness and Children's Academic Achievement
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Chen, Yung-Chi; Fish, Marian C. – Journal of Family Issues, 2013
This study examined how maternal chronic illnesses may affect children's academic achievement through parental involvement. A total of 189 mothers diagnosed with chronic illnesses, such as multiple sclerosis, diabetes, cancer, HIV/AIDS, chronic pain, asthma, myelodysplasic syndrome, and fibromyalgia, and with a child in middle school or high…
Descriptors: Parent Participation, Mothers, Chronic Illness, Academic Achievement