Read Books Online and Download eBooks, EPub, PDF, Mobi, Kindle, Text Full Free.
Child Survival Fair Start
Download Child Survival Fair Start full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Child Survival Fair Start ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Book Synopsis Child Survival/fair Start by : Ford Foundation
Download or read book Child Survival/fair Start written by Ford Foundation and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Child Survival/fair Start written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During fiscal year 1982 the Ford Foundation is devoting grants totalling US $3.1 million to a program strategy aimed at improving the chances for survival and healthy development of disadvantaged young children around the world. A similar level of support is projected for 1983. The programs focus on prenatal, perinatal, and weaning age children, and include pregnant and lactating mothers, emphasizing integrated approaches to health and mental development. 3 urban and 2 rural community-based demonstration projects are directed toward high-risk, disadvantaged urban and 2 rural community-based demonstration projects are directed toward highrisk, disadvantaged mothers in the 1st phase of the US portion of the Child Survival/Fair Start program. The program emphasizes use of a community network helper in the "peer-to-peer" outreach model in which professionals train community women in prenatal and child care and the women than assist and educate parents. The program strategy in the developing world has 3 elements: 1) support for community initiatives that draw on local skills and experiments in ways of making better use of local resources; 2) support for development and promotion of simple, practical, and relevant preventive and therapeutic measures; and 3) research to identify social, economic, cultural, biological, and ecological causes of high childhood morbidity and mortality and inadequate mental development so that appropriate cost-effective interventions can be developed.
Download or read book Resources in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Health for All Children by : David M B Hall
Download or read book Health for All Children written by David M B Hall and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-07 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since publication of the 4/e of this highly successful book, there have been a number of Government initiatives and publications on how the health of children can best be protected and promoted. This revised version incorporates updates on the relevance of these initiatives for anyone involved in the care and welfare of children.
Book Synopsis Evaluating Family Programs by : Francine H. Jacobs
Download or read book Evaluating Family Programs written by Francine H. Jacobs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diverse composition of American families and changing ways of raising our children have become subjects of intense scrutiny by researchers and policymakers in recent years. Shifting demographics and work patterns, growing numbers of women in the work force, teenage pregnancy, single-parent families, and the deinstitutionalization of the elderly, disabled, and mentally ill--all these trends have significantly affected family life. Evaluating Family Programs effectively bridges the gap between researchers and practitioners in order to bring practical, understandable advice to providers of family programs and to program funders and policymakers. Heather B. Weiss and Francine H. Jacobs have collected in this volume works which move outside the traditional approaches of their disciplines to create new models for delivering and evaluating services. This sets a mood of genuine inquiry and excitement about successful aspects of programs while maintaining openness about the limitations of both research and practice. By expanding the research model, this work is an attempt to understand reciprocal influences of extended family, culture, community, and social institutions. It urges those who advocate program accountability to understand that not all types of evaluations are appropriate for all programs, and it notes that limitations in current evaluation technologies make it difficult to evaluate outcomes. Evaluating Family Programs reminds the reader that in order to develop sound family policy we must look at children and families in context. Beacuse policymakers, program administrators, and informed citizens have come to rely more upon the results of evaluation research, we must improve our methods while not losing sight of its limitations. It is a thought-provoking contribution to the efforts of those who seek to support the American family with compassion, understanding, and realism.
Book Synopsis Home Visiting by : United States. General Accounting Office
Download or read book Home Visiting written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Home Visiting by : Barbara Hanna Wasik
Download or read book Home Visiting written by Barbara Hanna Wasik and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2001 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Second Edition is a good source for those training to be home visitors, in-service home visitors, supervisors and directors of home visiting programs serving a wide range of families. Recent evaluations of home visiting are summarized and practical suggestions for evaluating local programs are also included. This is an easy to read and essential resource for both beginning and experienced home visitors, trainers, supervisors of home visitors, and directors of home visiting programs.
Book Synopsis Home-Based Services for Troubled Children by : Ira M. Schwartz
Download or read book Home-Based Services for Troubled Children written by Ira M. Schwartz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2016-02-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is mounting interest in services to strengthen families and, if possible, to keep them together, preventing unnecessary and costly out-of-home placements. Unfortunately, although these programs are proliferating throughout the country, many are developing without the benefit of existing historical, conceptual, and scholarly data, information needed to make sound fiscal policy and programmatic decisions. This book fills this critical void, with a systematic examination of home-based services for abused, neglected, delinquent, and emotionally disturbed children and their families. With the most authoritative research on the topic to date, this book will be of interest to practitioners, policymakers, and child advocates.
Download or read book Child Health Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Assessing Outcomes in Child and Family Services by : Anthony N. Maluccio
Download or read book Assessing Outcomes in Child and Family Services written by Anthony N. Maluccio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collective portrait, editors and authors do not attempt to draw systematic, country-by-country comparisons. Given the magnitude of the issues, they believed that it would be inappropriate to paint with too broad a stroke. What they have accomplished, however, is to codify and identify what the participants repeatedly noted in regard to issues and difficulties inherent in conducting outcome evaluation. These include: varying definitions of outcome; complexities in measuring outcomes of particular interventions with different groups of consumers and documenting the effectiveness of the intervention; the tendency to focus on evaluation of process more than outcome; the challenge of involving practitioners in the evaluation task, in part because its value is unclear to them or perceived as distant or untrustworthy; the typical inadequacy of resources available for systematic evaluation; and the need to inject rigor into the design and execution of evaluation projects. The authors demonstrate strong conviction about sharing research expertise across national boundaries; learning through each other how to cope with organizational impediments to cross-national collaboration; and strengthening the interaction between practice and research. Their contributions suggest that there is wide interest in pursuing cross-national collaboration. In recent years, largely in response to demands by their funding sources for accountability, assessment of performance, and cost effectiveness, researchers in human services have been devoting increased attention to outcome evaluation. Limited attention, however, has been given to the findings of evaluation studies conducted in different countries. The present volume has been organized and edited to address the task of learning from outcome research across the world. Its goal, an extension of a major goal of the human services in any one country, is to improve life chances of vulnerable children and youth.
Book Synopsis Community Treatment for Youth by : Barbara J. Burns
Download or read book Community Treatment for Youth written by Barbara J. Burns and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-30 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This outstanding textbook presents innovative interventions for youth with severe emotional and behavioral disorders. Community Treatment for Youth is designed to fill a gap between the knowledge base and clinical practice through its presentation of theory, practice parameters, training requirements, and research evidence. Featuring community-based and state-of-the-art services for youth with severe emotional and behavioral disorders and their families, this volume describes each intervention in depth, along with the supporting evidence for its utility. Most chapters present a single intervention as an alternative to institutional care. Shared characteristics of these interventions include delivery of services in the community (homes, schools, and neighborhoods) provided largely by parents and paraprofessional staff. The interventions are appropriate to use in any of the child human services sectors and have been developed in the field with real-world child and family clients. In addition, they offer a reduced cost in comparison to institutional care. Several chapters address diagnostic-specific psychosocial and psychopharmacological treatments, which are likely to be provided as adjunctive treatment in a clinical setting. Designed to update professionals in the field about effective services, Community Treatment for Youth will serve as a resource for academics, policymakers, practitioners, consumers, and researchers.
Book Synopsis Child Poverty and Public Policy by : Judith A. Chafel
Download or read book Child Poverty and Public Policy written by Judith A. Chafel and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 1993 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten studies examine poor children in the US and the efforts to help them. They include the demographics, some of the reasons for poverty, maltreatment by families and society, federal aid programs, children as human resources, and advocacy programs and organizations. No index. Paper edition (unseen), $29.50. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Young Children, Parents and Professionals by : Margaret Henry
Download or read book Young Children, Parents and Professionals written by Margaret Henry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As early year education and very early child care increase, parents and professionals face many difficult questions. What are the effects of early education on children? Are parents fulfilling their roles? What should teachers' roles be? Seldom asked are more basic questions: What are the fundamental needs of young children? Or parents? Or professionals? How can these differing sets of needs be met? Margaret Henry proposes three dimensions of caregiving behaviour through which parents and professionals not only help young children to develop, but can also help one another's development. Evidence of positive change comes both from her own research in family day care and from the work of her students, practicing teachers and child care personnel. Their examples involve often hard-to-reach parents - those who are tired, employed, alienated, bossy and culturally and ethnically diverse. There are practical suggestions here for professionals and parents interested in enhancing their relationships with one another and the outcomes for young children.
Book Synopsis Arab Family Studies by : Suad Joseph
Download or read book Arab Family Studies written by Suad Joseph and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family remains the most powerful social idiom and one of the most powerful social structures throughout the Arab world. To engender love of nation among its citizens, national movements portray the nation as a family. To motivate loyalty, political leaders frame themselves as fathers, mothers, brothers, or sisters to their clients, parties, or the citizenry. To stimulate production, economic actors evoke the sense of duty and mutual commitment of family obligation. To sanctify their edicts, clerics wrap religion in the moralities of family and family in the moralities of religion. Social and political movements, from the most secular to the most religious, pull on the tender strings of family love to recruit and bind their members to each other. To call someone family is to offer them almost the highest possible intimacy, loyalty, rights, reciprocities, and dignity. In recognizing the significance of the concept of family, this state-of-the-art literature review captures the major theories, methods, and case studies carried out on Arab families over the past century. The book offers a country-by-country critical assessment of the available scholarship on Arab families. Sixteen chapters focus on specific countries or groups of countries; seven chapters offer examinations of the literature on key topical issues. Joseph’s volume provides an indispensable resource to researchers and students, and advances Arab family studies as a critical independent field of scholarship.
Download or read book Child Slavery Now written by Gary Craig and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most slave trades were abolished during the 19th century, yet there remain millions of people in slavery today, including approximately 210 million children - trafficked, in debt bondage, as well as other forms of forced labor. Set to be the definitive text on the subject, this groundbreaking book - drawing on global experiences - shows how children remain locked in slavery, the ways in which they are exploited, and how they can be emancipated. Child Slavery Now includes international contributors who remind us that we all - as consumers - are implicated in modern childhood slavery, and we need both to understand its causes and act to stop it.
Book Synopsis America's Family Support Programs by : Sharon Lynn Kagan
Download or read book America's Family Support Programs written by Sharon Lynn Kagan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays discuss the prevention of child abuse, day care, family education, program funding and staffing, family research, and program evaluation
Book Synopsis Prenatal Care by : Institute of Medicine
Download or read book Prenatal Care written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1988-02-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prenatal care programs have proven effective in improving birth outcomes and preventing low birthweight. Yet over one-fourth of all pregnant women in the United States do not begin prenatal care in the first 3 months of pregnancy, and for some groupsâ€"such as black teenagersâ€"participation in prenatal care is declining. To find out why, the authors studied 30 prenatal care programs and analyzed surveys of mothers who did not seek prenatal care. This new book reports their findings and offers specific recommendations for improving the nation's maternity system and increasing the use of prenatal care programs.