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Improving Child Protective Services: How to Expand and Implement the Consensus.
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Besharov, Douglas J. – Children Today, 1992
Presents the results of a 1988 conference designed to develop and implement a consensus on how to improve child protective services. Offers specific recommendations and describes implementation plans being carried out by dozens of national organizations. (MDM)
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Child Abuse, Child Advocacy, Child Neglect
Early Intervention Keeps Medically Fragile Babies at Home.
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Lima, Lorraine; Seliger, Jerome – Children Today, 1990
Describes a program designed to help families care for their medically fragile infants and children in their homes, thus preventing the need for protective services involvement. (PCB)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Child Health, Disabilities
Preventing Child Abuse through the Schools.
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McCauley, Kathy – Children Today, 1992
Discusses the activities of the Family Intervention Center (FIC) of the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh to prevent child abuse in the Sto-Rox school district through a school-based program that educates children about child abuse. One activity sponsored by FIC was a health fair for children and their parents. (MDM)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Early Intervention, Elementary School Students
Healthy Families America.
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Donnelly, Anne Cohn – Children Today, 1992
Discusses ways to prevent child abuse and neglect through parent education and home visiting programs for at-risk families that stress early intervention and preventive measures. Describes the Healthy Start program developed in Hawaii as a model for other states to follow. (MDM)
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Child Abuse, Child Health, Child Neglect