NCJ Number
140505
Editor(s)
K Goetz
Date Published
1992
Length
203 pages
Annotation
This resource book describes the current status of family resource programs in the United States and Canada through program examples.
Abstract
The first chapter contains programs that provide collaborative and comprehensive family services. These often large, innovative programs foster coalitions of service providers to offer an extensive range of services to families. Services vary from program to program, but it is typical to find health services, childcare, employment assistance, parenting education, and support. Chapter two contains programs that began as partnerships between schools and families. Any program whose primary goal is to encourage school success is located in this chapter, as are programs that use schools as primary sites. The third category of program, "Enhancing Family Function," contains programs whose original purpose was to support and strengthen families. This category includes freestanding community- based family resource centers as well as family support programs located in other settings. The fourth chapter contains programs that have incorporated a family support component into an organization with a different, but perhaps related, primary function or mission. The concluding chapter focuses on State initiatives. Many States have recognized that strengthening families is an efficient and cost- effective way of preventing a multitude of social problems. The appendixes are designed to allow easy cross referencing so as to locate the program examples most useful to the reader.