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Download full textKnoll, James A.; Bedford, Sara – 1989
The project sought to determine the content and form of materials that would enable parents of children with disabilities to become informed critical consumers of respite services. Project activities included establishment and utilization of a national advisory panel; an indepth review of the literature on family supports, systems change, and…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Consumer Education, Disabilities, Information Needs
Huntington, Gail S.; And Others – 1992
Visits were made to selected respite care and crisis nursery programs in order to describe the programs and services they offered to families of young children with special needs and to learn more about the families who used the services and the staff who provided them. The visits to 10 crisis nurseries and 24 respite care programs resulted in…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Crisis Intervention, Disabilities, Family Programs
Brodin, Jane – 1995
This study surveyed how respite care services functioned for Swedish families who have children with disabilities and compared the results with a previous study made 6 years earlier. The study was based on a questionnaire completed by 245 of Sweden's municipalities. The study examined the quantity and quality of the services and respondents' views…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Disabilities, Family Needs, Foreign Countries
Huntington, Gail S.; And Others – 1992
This report describes results of an evaluation of respite care programs and crisis nursery programs for children with disabilities, based on survey forms received from 81 programs and site visits to selected programs across the United States. The survey of crisis nursery programs and the survey of respite care programs gathered data on amount of…
Descriptors: Crisis Intervention, Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Eligibility
Nelson, Lynda A. – 1986
Over the 3 years of funding, 1983-1986, the Volunteers in Partnership with Parents Project (VIPP), a Handicapped Children's Early Education Program (HCEEP) Model Demonstration Program funded by the U.S. Department of Education, designed and implemented a program model for parents in rural North Carolina who had significantly handicapped preschool…
Descriptors: Delivery Systems, Disabilities, Early Intervention, Family Programs
Huntington, Gail S.; Langmeyer, David B. – 1992
This annual survey of respite care and crisis nursery programs funded by the Children's Bureau of the Administration for Children, Youth, and Families of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services contains program information for 43 crisis nursery programs and 65 respite care programs. Data on crisis nurseries and on respite care programs…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Welfare, Chronic Illness
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1985
Testimony was heard concerning unmet needs for child care and current child care policy. Appearing before the Committee were California government officials, agency administrators and directors, school district officials, psychologists, anthropologists, and other researcher/practitioners, doctors, lawyers, parents, and children. Testimony covered…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Child Rearing, Cost Effectiveness, Day Care
