Effective services for young children : report of a workshop / / Lisbeth B. Schorr, Deborah Both, and Carol Copple, editors ; National Forum on the Future of Children and Families, National Research Council, Institute of Medicine

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827564903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1991
• ISBN: 1-280-20338-2; 9786610203383; 0-309-58360-8; 0-585-14436-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 116 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): SchorrLisbeth B; BothDeborah; CoppleCarol
• Soggetti: Children - Services for - United States; Social service - United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Effective Services for Young Children -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Report of the Workshop -- Effective Services for Young Children -- ATTRIBUTES OF EFFECTIVE SERVICES -- LESSONS OF THE PAST AND STRATEGIES FOR THE FUTURE -- STRATEGIES TO ENCOURAGE SYSTEMS CHANGE -- New Financing Strategies -- New Emphasis on Practice-Based Training for Practitioners and Managers -- Expanded Technical Assistance Capacity -- Active Collaboration and Coordination Across Professional Bureaucratic Boundaries -- Greater Emphasis on Using Outcome Measures to Ensure Accountability -- Complementary Functions of Outcomes Assessment and Evaluation -- New and Expanded Efforts to Educate the Public and Policy Makers -- CONCLUSION -- Background Papers -- Attributes of Effective Services for Young Children: A Brief Survey of Current Knowledge and Its Implications for Program… -- THE POLICY CONTEXT -- THE BURDEN OF PROOF: WHAT IS THE NATURE OF THE EVIDENCE THAT WE ; SHOULDCONSIDER PERSUASIVE? -- ATTRIBUTES OF EFFECTIVE SERVICES -- POLICY IMPLICATIONS OF THE ESSENTIAL ATTRIBUTES OF EFFECTIVE SERVICES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- Effective Services for Children and Families: Lessons from the Past and Strategies for the Future -- THE 1960S: SUCCESSES OR FAILURES? -- Community Action Programs -- Model Cities Programs -- THIRTY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE: THESIS, ANTITHESIS, AND SYNTHESIS -- The Role of the Federal Government -- Money as the Lever for Change -- The Search for the Panacea Solution -- WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED? -- SEARCHING FOR MODELS -- Service Delivery and Access Models -- Multiservice Centers and Settlement Houses -- Little City Halls -- Planning and Resource Allocation Models -- The Youth Bureau Model -- Offices for Children -- Place-Specific Models -- A PERSPECTIVE FOR THE 1990S.; State Financing Strategies That Promote More Effective Services for Children and Families -- FINANCING AS A STRATEGIC ELEMENT IN IMPROVED STATE SERVICE SYSTEMS -- PROMISING STATE STRATEGIES -- ISSUES FOR THE FUTURE -- The Challenges of Services Integration for Children and Families -- FINANCING SERVICES INTEGRATION -- A Vehicle for Federal Action -- Financing School-Based Services -- THE PITFALLS OF INTEGRATED SERVICES -- The Role of Training and Technical Assistance in The Promotion of More Effective Services for Children -- Collaboration as a Means, Not an End: Serving Disadvantaged Families and Children -- WHY IS COLLABORATION A GOOD THING? -- WHAT IS COLLABORATION? -- WHY IS COLLABORATION SO HARD? -- The Value of Differentiated Expertise -- The Value of Accountability -- ELEMENTS OF SUCCESSFUL COLLABORATION -- Redefined and Overlapping Missions -- Conflict Resolution -- Commitment of Managerial Time -- Role of Personal Relationships -- Exchange Relationships -- Involvement of Families -- NOTES TOWARD SOME RECOMMENDATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Outcomes as a Tool to Provoke Systems Change -- APPENDIX Workshop Agenda and Participants -- WORKSHOP ON EFFECTIVE SERVICES FOR YOUNG CHILDREN -- November 1-2, 1990 -- PARTICIPANTS.
• Sommario/riassunto: Describes the options and steps that could be taken to improve the situation through more effective services to children and families. Many of the leaders in efforts to improve services, and many at the forefront of attempts to understand these efforts in contexts contributed to the workshop and are represented in the volume.