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Miller, Leonard S. – 1987
Interest in the development of community-based long-term care (CBLTC) programs as a substitute for institutional-based care has been steadily growing. The estimated benefits from the Multipurpose Senior Services Program (MSSP), California's intensive CBLTC system, were measured by the expected increase in community residency days for clients for a…
Descriptors: Community Services, Cost Effectiveness, Cost Estimates, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled)
Dennis-Small, Lucretia; Washburn, Kerry – 1986
This two-year project demonstrated a model for preventing the removal of children from their homes, with the aim of reducing both the number of children entering foster care and the number of families recycled through the child protective services system. The project was a joint effort by the Texas Department of Human Services (DHS) Region 11…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Comparative Analysis, Costs
Ford, Phyllis – 1983
Numerous physical, mental, and behavioral activities that parents and their 3- to 5-year-old children can enjoy together are suggested in this activity guidebook. The guide suggests ways parents can give their children a good start at developing the abilities and ideas that are fundamental to all future learning at home before the children begin…
Descriptors: Behavior Development, Cognitive Development, Educational Objectives, Experiential Learning
Peters, Donald L.; And Others – 1987
This study analyzed the critical features of three delivery modes for Head Start services in order to: (1) compare the effects of different delivery modes on the immediate outcomes for children and parents; and (2) explore the pattern of effects both within and across modes to ascertain how the process works. The first mode represented the most…
Descriptors: Family School Relationship, Home Instruction, Home Programs, Home Visits
Barer, Barbara M. – 1985
Demographic changes, changes in women's work roles, and changes in the nature of the family have increased the importance of identifying the effects of government policy on family cohesion and living arrangement decisions. The effect of public policy on the nation's largest source of caregivers, the family support system, is a key issue. While…
Descriptors: Adult Children, Caregivers, Family Relationship, Family Role
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. – 1988
This brochure is a response to numerous questions that have been directed to the Superintendent of Public Instruction's Office since the passage of Chapter 441, Laws of 1985, (SSB 3279, the "Home Based Instruction" law). The following information is presented: (1) responses to questions relating to Chapter 28A.27 RCW (compulsory…
Descriptors: Compulsory Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Extension Education, Home Programs
Vachon, Claude – 1981
Maine's State Division of Adult Education began setting up a regionalized Adult Basic Education (ABE) program in rural Franklin county in 1974 to serve the area's functional illiterates. Located in the building housing the Franklin County Community Action Program (CAP), linkages were developed with a large number of agencies; initially the 10 CAP…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, County Programs, Delivery Systems
Garber, Malcolm – Orbit 23, 1974
Descriptors: Home Programs, Outreach Programs, Paraprofessional School Personnel, Parent Associations
Children First, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1977
This directory lists programs which specialize in providing some form of home-based family-focused child development training for parents, parent educators, agencies, professionals, adolescents, and others. These programs were identified as possible supplements or complements to the training offered by the six regional federally funded Home Start…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Child Development, Directories, Early Childhood Education
Greenwood, Gordon E.; And Others – 1976
The purpose of this study was to assess self-concept, teaching behavior, and life-style changes in parents employed as paid paraprofessionals in the University of Florida Follow-Through Program during 1971-1972. Results indicate that such parents made statistically significant gains on the feelings-of-competence factor of the How I See Myself…
Descriptors: Adult Learning, Behavior Change, Education, Home Programs
National Indian Council on Aging, Albuquerque, NM. – 1981
A national training session for administrators of tribal aging programs held by the National Indian Council on Aging in November 1979 was the basis for the training manual. The seven chapter titles reflect workshop topics with the text of each chapter incorporating material presented in the workshops and examples of model programs on reservations.…
Descriptors: Advocacy, American Indians, Demonstration Programs, Financial Support
Banta, Trudy W.; And Others – 1979
This paper describes an evaluation of the Child Health and Development Project (CHDP), a home-based early intervention program designed to promote parenting skills and to foster the physical, social, and intellectual development of children from birth through 6 years. The project served families from six counties in East Tennessee through funding…
Descriptors: Child Development, Early Childhood Education, Health Services, Home Programs
Bache, William; Nauta, Marrit J. – 1979
This paper provides a summary of a Home Start Followup Study (HSFS) which was initiated in 1976. An attempt was made to examine the durability of gains made as the result of families' (parents and their 3- to 5-year-old children) participation in the program. In addition, the study was designed to determine whether program duration (one versus two…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Demonstration Programs, Followup Studies
Stevens, Joseph H., Jr. – 1976
This paper reviews research on parent education programs in which training efforts were focused on low income mothers. Three model strategies for training low income parents are identified: (1) individual consultation, in which a parent consultant works on a one-to-one basis with the parent-child dyad, usually in the home; (2) group consultation,…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Group Instruction, Home Programs, Individual Instruction
Greenwood, Gordon E. – 1970
The Florida Follow Through Model is one of several federally-funded experimental programs that attempts to modify the type of educational experience that children from low-income backgrounds receive during their first four years (K-3) of schooling. In the case of the Florida model, the emphasis is on home as well as school intervention. Two…
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Compensatory Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Elementary School Students
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