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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1995
This document presents findings of a General Accounting Office (GAO) study that identified approaches and Aid to Dependent Children (AFDC) program activities that help teenage mothers complete their secondary education. Data were obtained from visits to 13 local programs in New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Vermont, and Wisconsin and…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Attendance Patterns, Birth Rate, Births to Single Women
Voices for Illinois Children, Chicago. – 1993
This "report card" grades the state of education, health, special needs services, and economic security among Illinois children in 1993. Illinois ranked 38th out of the 50 states in financial contribution per student for education, but had a high disparity in revenues per pupil at the county level, thus earning a "D+" grade for…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Child Health, Child Welfare
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1984
The last in a series of five regional information-gathering hearings, this hearing report presents testimony from concerned citizens and private and public social organizations in California, New Mexico, and Arizona. Information and statistics are given on the following social problems: (1) child sexual abuse and child pornography; (2) infant…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adoption, American Indians, Blacks
Ryan, Patricia – 1981
This booklet attempts to reassure single parents that they can raise healthy, happy children and provides some suggestions for parents' specific questions and concerns. The first section discusses the emotional stages children pass through when they lose a parent, ways to explain to children the loss of a parent, and ways to handle children's…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Affective Behavior, Budgeting, Child Rearing
Osofsky, Howard J.; Osofsky, Joy D. – 1970
Data is presented which demonstrates that poor and/or nonwhite pregnant adolescents are high risk individuals from medical, educational and social points of view. Specific problems in all three areas are described and the results of a program, initiated to offer meaningful solutions, are discussed. The Young Mothers Educational Development (YMED)…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Child Development, Child Rearing
Kids Count Minnesota, Minneapolis. – 1996
Minnesota KIDS COUNT focuses on key risk indicators for children and describes the condition of children in each of Minnesota's 87 counties. According to this second annual report, another generation of children is at risk of growing up with decreasing resources, evidenced by increasing arrest rates for violent crimes and substantiated reports of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Births to Single Women, Census Figures
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1995
This General Accounting Office study, commissioned by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, reflects concerns about rising caseloads and long-term dependence on welfare programs, such as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Attention has been focused the United State's welfare system, particularly on the rising number of teenage mothers. The forces…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Community Coordination, Community Health Services
Illinois Commission on the Status of Women, Springfield. – 1984
The rapid impoverishment of women and their children has serious implications for the American family and for the nation. This report includes testimony before the Illinois Commission on the Status of Women from national and state representatives of women's organizations, social services agencies, advocacy groups, and civil rights organizations. A…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Blacks, Children
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1984
Reporting the second in a series of regional fact-finding committee hearings held across the United States, this document includes testimony from social service organizations and state offices in Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, and Iowa. Testimony from clients and representatives of these agencies documents efforts to ameliorate problems…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adoption, American Indians, Battered Women
Carta, Elizabeth – 1976
Techniques are described which were used to develop and establish the Young Parents Program, a pilot project used to develop and expand the homebound instruction function of Norwalk Hospital by providing broadening family functioning type experiences to pregnant girls in the Norwalk, Connecticut, schools. The instructional objectives listed are…
Descriptors: Child Development, Curriculum Development, Day Care, Family Life Education
Los Angeles City Schools, CA. – 1967
AN INTERAGENCY PROGRAM FOR UNWED PREGNANT TEENAGERS IN THE LOS ANGELES PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT IS EVALUATED IN THIS REPORT. FUNDED UNDER TITLE I OF THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION ACT, THE PROGRAM IS CONDUCTED IN OR ADJACENT TO SIX LOS ANGELES DISTRICT HEALTH CENTERS. IN ADDITION TO REGULAR MEDICAL AND INSTRUCTIONAL PERSONNEL, THE PROGRAM'S…
Descriptors: Administrative Problems, Agency Cooperation, Child Care, Community Organizations
Jablonsky, Adelaide – IRCD Bulletin, 1968
This report discusses some "promising" compensatory education programs and presents statistical estimates which identify the disadvantaged population to be served by such programs. The discussion is based on observations of school systems and programs in all sections of the country and on interviews with over 200 educational administrators who…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Adolescents, Audiovisual Aids, Bilingual Students
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1996
This hearing transcript presents statements regarding programs that facilitate involvement of marginal or absentee fathers in the upbringing of their children. Opening or prepared statements, reiterating the increase in paternal abandonment and its attendant social costs, are presented for Indiana Senator Dan Coats, Chair of the Subcommittee on…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Child Rearing, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs
Green, Anson M. – 1998
The Culebra Road GED/JOBS (General Educational Development/Job Opportunities and Basic Skills) class provides recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) with remedial academic instruction, job preparedness training, and training in parenting skills. At the suggestion of one of its students, the class undertook a project that…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Programs, Class Activities, Dropout Prevention
Freeman, Ellen W.; Rickels, Karl – 1993
This book reports on the Penn Study of Teenage Pregnancy, which examined issues surrounding adolescent pregnancy, abortion, and childbearing. Participants were African-American teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17 from disadvantaged urban backgrounds. Based on individual interviews over 2 years in the early 1980s, the study provided details…
Descriptors: Abortions, Adolescents, Black Students, Decision Making
