ERIC Number: ED281667
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1986
Pages: 186
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Planning a Program for a Community-Based Infant/Family Development Center.
Farrar, Elizabeth B.
In Belle Glade, Florida, a slum populated by Blacks, Whites, Hispanics, migrant farmworkers, and Haitians, where the incidence of most major health risks was far greater than anywhere else in the state, a program was planned and partially implemented which aimed to provide health services to at-risk, disadvantaged teenage mothers and their infants. To attain program goals, an executive board was formed which consisted of 12 professional leaders in the fields of early childhood education and pre- and post-natal health and social services. Board members planned a program of prenatal intervention and follow-up, conceived a strategy for securing building lots, planned building spaces, implemented a fund-raising program, planned a program for infant development/stimulation, and built community support networks. Within a period of 12 months, a Director was employed full-time, funds were committed for a full-time pediatric nurse, a volunteer program was implemented, architectural drawings for a facility were approved, building lots were secured, the Ford Foundation had made a site visit to consider a Haitian Intervention Research Project, start-up funds were obtained, a funding plan was projected, and the program was adopted as a model for community action. Related materials are provided in 15 appendices. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Birth Weight, Community Action, Community Health Services, Community Problems, Community Programs, Delivery Systems, Developmental Programs, Disadvantaged Environment, Disadvantaged Youth, Early Parenthood, Facility Planning, Fund Raising, Infants, Intervention, Mothers, Perinatal Influences, Pregnancy, Prenatal Influences, Program Development, Program Evaluation, Social Networks
Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Practicum Papers
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Florida
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