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Peer reviewedvan der Eyken, Willem – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems, 1994
Voices of Pioneers section features Margaret Harrison of United Kingdom who founded HOME-START movement in Leicester, England, in 1973. Notes that HOME-START now has 150 programs throughout United Kingdom and in other countries and that program trains volunteers to offer support, friendship, and practical help to young families under stress in…
Descriptors: Family Problems, Foreign Countries, Home Programs, Mothers
Versluys, Hilda P. – Rehabilitation Literature, 1986
The article describes a Netherlands model for support and assistance to families of handicapped children. "Practical Help at Home" is an outgrowth of the Parents' Initiative Movement and relies on volunteers to provide a range of services including respite and training. (CL)
Descriptors: Disabilities, Family Programs, Foreign Countries, Home Programs
Download full textAppleby, Sandy; And Others – 1987
Respite and in-home services have been identified by caregivers as vital for maintaining a frail older person in the community. A program called The Alzheimer Support/Tender Loving Caregivers Project was undertaken in northwest Indiana to strengthen the informal support network of disabled elderly in the community. An interfaith coalition of…
Descriptors: Church Programs, Disabilities, Home Programs, Human Services
Peer reviewedHoffman, Stephanie B. – Gerontologist, 1983
Describes a peer counselor training program for five older adult volunteers. Presents suggestions for advertising, screening, program format, and development of practica, and examines the role and helpfulness of the peer counselors who provided in-home counseling services. (JAC)
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Counselor Role, Counselor Training, Gerontology
Watson, Rose Marie – TESL Talk, 1983
Describes a community-based English-language training program using volunteer tutors, designed to meet the specific language needs of homebound learners wanting to learn English but unable to attend existing ESL classes. (EKN)
Descriptors: Adult Students, English (Second Language), Home Instruction, Home Programs
O'Toole, Brian – 1990
The document, in both English and French, describes a 2-year project in Guyana based on the principle of community-based rehabilitation (CBR), which stresses training local community residents as supervisors to provide training of rehabilitation workers and direct services to children with disabilities living in rural areas. The program provided…
Descriptors: Children, Community Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Developing Nations
California State Dept. of Education, Sacramento. Parenting and Community Education Office. – 1991
This document, which is designed to serve as a resource for school districts that are formulating comprehensive parent involvement programs, provides a representative sampling of parent involvement programs in California. Section 1 lists programs operating at the local educational level that: (1) help parents develop parenting skills and foster…
Descriptors: Community Services, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Family School Relationship
Butler, Fred Clayton – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
Americanization is in the end a task for the individual citizen and not for the Government. The individual can be successful in so human a problem only by having a sympathetic knowledge of this task and of those with whom he must deal. To supply at least the foundations of this knowledge is the purpose of this book. The contents are taken largely…
Descriptors: Educational History, Immigrants, Citizenship Education, Guides
