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Gifford, Beth; Evans, Kelly; Babinski, Leslie; Foster, Audrey – Center for Child and Family Policy, Duke University (NJ1), 2011
In September 2009 the Council for Children's Rights unveiled the Larry King Center for Building Children's Futures (LKC). The LKC serves as a resource to the community "maximizing the effectiveness and impact of work being done for children by providers, agencies and funders." The LKC has chosen three initial priorities to address in…
Descriptors: School Readiness, Leadership, Agency Cooperation, Childrens Rights
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Fowler, Sayers Stephanie – Southern Rural Sociology, 1991
Surveyed 1,200 residents of rural North Carolina to examine the effects of gender on feelings of community attachment. Studied the relationship between emotional responses to the community and community attachment. The results, though inconclusive, indicate that community attachment has more importance in explaining women's response to questions…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Community, Community Attitudes, Community Satisfaction
Miller, Francis T.; And Others – 1974
Based on a North Carolina feasibility study (1967-73) which focused on development of a pattern for providing comprehensive mental health services to rural people, this guide deals with measuring and monitoring stress in the community. Emphasizing the "proactive" efforts developed in a stress model for Vance and Franklin counties, this…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Feasibility Studies, Individual Needs, Information Seeking
American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL. – 1969
A 1968 field study of the legal problems of the rural poor in an eastern North Carolina county typical of the rural poverty belt is described in this report. The primary purposes of this study were (1) to determine the types of legal problems confronting the rural poor person, (2) to ascertain whether he perceived those problems as…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Community Attitudes, Consumer Economics, Economically Disadvantaged