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This fact sheet defines social and emotional competence in children and offers tips for parents on how to guide development of social and emotional competence for their children.
This research brief published by James Bell Associates on behalf of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, describes the need for a collaborative effort of education, mental and medical health, and social services for young children included in the child welfare service...
This federally funded report provides a synthesis of research and existing Administration for Children and Families (ACF) resources for serving at-risk youth. It begins by stating the key questions that guide the synthesis, defining key concepts, and describing a number of at-risk youth...
This brief published by Child Trends draws from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health (NSCH) data to develop indices of children's contexts for three contextual domains (i.e., family, neighborhood, and sociodemographic) and to evaluate individual functioning of children living in...
This report, prepared by Mathematica Policy Research, describes Early Head Start program services being provided to a nationally representative sample of 976 families recruited from 89 Early Head Start programs. The results show that all Early Head Start programs provide a wide-range of services...
The Safe Start demonstration projects, funded by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) under the first phase of the Safe Start initiative, are primarily designed to influence change at the systems or macrolevels to reduce the incidence of and impact of exposure to...
The report is organized around six interrelated themes that emerged during the state team discussions at Early Childhood 2010: 1. Coordinated state leadership: Adapting state governance to coordinate and align early learning and development services; 2. Effective use of data: Creating unified...
This framework is a road map for progress in achieving the kinds of outcomes that lead to positive and enduring change for children and families. It is a research-based approach to program change that shows how an agency can work together as a whole--across systems and service areas--to promote...
This paper addresses the perspectives of parents and program staff in the sharing of child assessment information through the formation of partnerships and suggests strategies for bringing those perspectives together. It outlines a framework for building partnerships between program staff and...
This article discusses resilience in parents and children, risk and protective factors for resilience, the vulnerability of unmarried mothers, and characteristics of strong families. Family strengthening strategies are highlighted and include fatherhood initiatives, marriage and relationships...