61. - L - PROFESSIONAL associations. SOCIAL WORKERS. LIFE EXPECTANCY. ISOLATED PEOPLE. SOCIALNETWORKS. LONG STAY care. AT RISK childREN. child care. child PROTECTION SERVICES. http://195.195.162.66/thes/l.htm

- L - LABOUR MARKET Related terms: EMPLOYMENT UNEMPLOYMENT LAUNDRY SERVICES Related terms: COMMUNITY CARE ENURESIS HOME CARE INCONTINENCE LAW Related terms: LAW COURTS LAWYERS LEGAL PROCEEDINGS LEGISLATION LAW COURTS Related terms: JUVENILE COURT PROCEEDINGS LAW LAW CENTRES LEGAL PROCEEDINGS LAWYERS Related terms: LAW LAW COURTS LEGAL PROCEEDINGS LEADERSHIP Related terms: GROUPWORK MANAGEMENT MANAGERS SUPERVISION TEAMWORK learning difficulties/disabilities Use PEOPLE WITH LEARNING DIFFICULTIES LEARNING AND SKILLS ACT 2000 LEAVING CARE Related terms: ADMISSION TO CARE LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN INDEPENDENCE LEGAL AID Related terms: LAW COURTS LEGAL PROCEEDINGS LEGAL PROCEEDINGS Related terms: JUVENILE COURT PROCEEDINGS LAW COURTS LAWYERS LEGAL AID LEGISLATION Related terms: CENTRAL GOVERNMENT GREEN PAPER LAW SOCIAL POLICY WHITE PAPER LEISURE LEISURE ACTIVITIES LESBIANS Related terms: ANTI DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICE GAY MEN HOMOSEXUALITY WOMEN LESOTHO leukaemia Use BLOOD DISORDERS LICENSING Use for social workers as under the General Social Services Council proposals Related terms: PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS SOCIAL WORKERS LIFE EXPECTANCY Related terms: AGEING QUALITY OF LIFE LIFE LONG LEARNING Related terms: ADULT EDUCATION ADULTS EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT FURTHER EDUCATION TRAINING LIFE STORY BOOKS Related terms: LOOKED AFTER CHILDREN THERAPY LIFE STYLE LITERATURE REVIEWS LOCAL AUTHORITIES Related terms: CENTRAL GOVERNMENT LOCAL GOVERNMENT SOCIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENTS LOCAL AUTHORITY HOUSING Related terms: HOUSING HOUSING DEPARTMENTS LOCAL AUTHORITIES

62. Family Support And Foster Care Links with other foster care associations, government sites, and medical informationsites and child advocacy sites. Rainbow Kids. http//www.rainbowkids.com. http://www.frca.org/lcenter/showtopic.php?action=viewlink&categoryid=11

63. Family Support And Child Care National Association for Family child care. membership organization working with themore than 400 state and local family childcare provider associations in the http://www.frca.org/lcenter/showtopic.php?action=vieworg&categoryid=2

64. Book Review: Renewing Hope Witin Neighborhoods Of Despair main insights sharing information through coalitions, associations and intermediaries suchas home health care, familybased child care cooperatives and http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/117/bookreviewZdenek.html

May/June, 2001 Book Review Weaving Storytelling and Theory Reviewed by Robert O. Zdenek Back to Table of Contents Renewing Hope Within Neighborhoods of Despair , by Herbert J. Rubin. State University of New York Press, Albany, NY. 2000. 280 pp. Herbert Rubin, a sociology professor from Northern Illinois University, spent over five years in the 1990s interviewing hundreds of community development corporation (CDC) directors, staff and community leaders about their challenges and their theories of community development. He also attended dozens of conferences to study CDCs and interact with leading funders and intermediaries. Rubin, clearly a good listener, effectively uses storytelling as a powerful lens for sharing ideas and lessons. In Renewing Hope he draws on all his research to present numerous stories from CDC practitioners that shed insight on how these leaders think about and practice community development. Networks, Networks Renewing Hope skillfully describes the external support environment for CDC initiatives. Rubin includes excellent charts on diverse funding sources and the types of support they provide as well as a wealth of examples of CDC interaction with the public sector, intermediaries, foundations and corporations. Finally, Rubin describes how CDC associations, coalitions and networks not only generate resources but help create a common culture and shared understanding among CDCs. Practitioners, their networks and funding partners have all built a movement and created an industry with tremendous growth and resilience.

65. ED403102 1997-01-00 Perspectives On Rural Child Care. ERIC Digest. of specialists and professional associationsrequire significant rural providersfeel that child care legislation has resource and referral networks with 800 http://www.ericfacility.net/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed403102.html

ERIC Identifier: Publication Date: Author: Beach, Betty A. Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Rural Education and Small Schools Charleston WV. Perspectives on Rural Child Care. ERIC Digest. THIS DIGEST WAS CREATED BY ERIC, THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ERIC, CONTACT ACCESS ERIC 1-800-LET-ERIC Although nearly 25 percent of U.S. children grow up in non-metropolitan areas, we have done little research on them. This oversight extends to rural child care, which receives little explicit analysis. As a result, "Our research on child care is an essentially urban literature, with a few examples of suburban studies. Rural child care is an unknown quantity" (Phillips, 1987, p. 123). REALITIES OF RURAL CHILD CARE Center-based care. Rural families experience child care differently from urban ones on a number of counts. Center-based care, increasingly popular among American families, is less available to rural children. In many areas, lengthy distances, small and scattered populations and high transportation costs make centers impractical. Further, rural parents are more likely to prefer informal careespecially care provided by relatives (Shoffner, 1986). Consequently, only about one fourth of rural children are in group care ("Nonmetro and metro children," 1992, p. 27). Additionally, the centers that do exist in rural areas are often subsidized, and thus targeted at special populations, leaving working-poor and middle-class families with fewer choices.

66. About The Resident Opportunities And Self-Sufficiency (ROSS) Program - Public Ho operating as associations or networks that administer sitebased resident associationsthat do Providing supportive serviceschild care, transportation, and http://www.hud.gov/offices/pih/programs/ph/ross/about.cfm

Public and Indian Housing About PIH Public housing Fact sheet ... Public housing About the Resident Opportunities and Self Sufficiency (ROSS) Program Local information Print version E-mail this to a friend Jump to... Program purpose Funding categories Technical assistance/training support for resident organizations Resident service delivery models ... More information Related Information When the FY2002 ROSS NOFA is released, the application kit will be available from this web site. Program Purpose The Resident Opportunities and Self Sufficiency Program (ROSS) links public housing residents with supportive services, resident empowerment activities, and assistance in becoming economically self-sufficient. This program is consistent with the Department's goal to more effectively focus resources on welfare-to-work and independent living for the elderly and persons with disabilities. As a response to the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of 1998 (the Public Housing Reform Act), ROSS is a redefined and restructured combination of programs funded in prior years: Tenant Opportunities Program (TOP), Economic Development and Supportive Services Program (EDSS), and Public Housing Service Coordinators.

67. Untitled Document information from the Neighborhood networks website. of the National Maternal and ChildHealth Clearinghouse and State Primary care associations, is developing http://www.nydic.org/nydic/chip.html

Children's Health Insurance Program Information Sheet In 1997, President Clinton signed into law the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)the largest children's health coverage expansion since Medicaid. CHIP provides $24 billion to help states offer affordable health insurance to children whose families make too much for Medicaid and too little for private coverage. The CHIP program provides an invaluable asset to the children and families in the United States. However, due to inadequate information dissemination, difficult application procedures, and other problems, the program is still under-utilized. Many millions of eligible children are still not receiving the health insurance they need. According to an American Hospital Association study released May, 1999, almost 15 percent of all children went without insurance in 1997. The list below contains information on the organizations, publications, and websites that are geared toward making the CHIP program work to its fullest extent. UPDATE: On July 30, 1999, the results of a study by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured were released at a forum sponsored by the Alliance for Health Reform. The study found that enrollment of uninsured children in state CHIP programs grew by more than 50% from December 1998 to June 1999. This would seem to indicate that outreach efforts are working.

68. Unit Five: Helping The Caregiver associations may also offer a variety of other services and the development of alternatecare lists, client ear), First Aid and other child care related courses http://www.acng.org/helping2.html

Community Services for Caregivers and Children Below we will look at some of the types of services and programs that may be available in your community to help you reduce the isolation of your work, enhance the quality of care that you provide, and give the children in your care opportunities to socialize, try new activities and explore their community. Play Groups: A play group is any group of adults (caregivers and parents) and children who come together on a regular basis to socialize and play. Some play groups have been established through family resource or community centers, child care agencies, registries, and provider associations. Many more have been established by parents and caregivers in their own neighborhoods. There are many different kinds of play groups. A casual or informal playgroup can be as simple as three or four caregivers getting together with the children in one anothers homes on a regular basis. The adults may visit while keeping an eye on the children's free play or may take turns organizing activities for the children. More structured playgroups might take place in church basements or community centers with equipment, toys, and fixed routines that might include free play, sand or water table, play dough, circle or story and snack time. Adults may be expected to volunteer on a regular basis to help out with some aspect of the group and there is often a small fee involved to cover the costs of materials and snacks.

69. Soho Center Background The Soho Center provides free business advice and information about child care codes,child care associations, and child carerelated agencies and organizations http://www.child2000.org/backgrnd.htm

B ackground, Recent Activities, and Corporate Support F or over 28 years, the Soho Center has planned and implemented a variety of innovative, quality child care, early childhood, and school-age related programs and services utilizing a variety of modalities to promote optimal child development and education. And we have focussed on the development of innovative strategies that find and affect family child care providers - the people who care for the largest percentage of America's children in child care. C urrent Activities Financials Grants Corporate Support Past Activities ... Donate Online! N ATIONAL C HILDREN'S L ITERACY I NFORMATION Project - A national effort to develop materials that directly enhance children's literacy and school success with a primary focus on parents and child care providers. Materials currently being developed include two highly-produced N ATIONAL C HILDREN'S L ITERACY V IDEOS (to be given away free to 5,000 public libraries and child care groups nationwide) and an extensive N ATIONAL C HILDREN'S L ITERACY W EB S ITE with hundreds of children's literacy resources and articles for use by parents, child care providers, and agencies. Click

70. Web Resources associations. Our services include child care and adult/elder care, daily living withtechnical assistance and information about dependent care and other http://www.cebcglobal.org/WorkLife/Resources.htm

CEBC SITE INDEX: overview Ceo's corner ethics work-life ... HOME W ORK -L IFE R ESOURCES For your convenience, Work-Life Resources are divided into the following categories: Certificate Programs Work-Life Links Academic Institutions Associations Centers and Institutes Commercial Sites Government Agencies Work-Life Networks or Roundtab les Certificate Programs Boston College Work/Life Certificate Program Work-Life Links Academic Institutions Penn State - Center for Work and Family Research The mission of the Center for Work and Family Research (CWFR) at Penn State is to promote excellence in research and education on issues at the intersections of work, family, and community. University of California - Berkley Center for Working Families Established in September 1998, the Berkeley Center for Working Families conducts innovative, theory-generating research which sheds light on the experience of two-job families and disseminates ideas and information to the scholarly community and to the public at large through published works, public addresses, and informal consultation with business, labor, child care, educational and governmental groups. University of Minnesota - Children, Youth and Family Consortium (CYFC)

71. Membership In A Professional Association Influence The Quality Of Family Child C counties formed new family daycare provider associations. not already members ofprofessional child-related organizations related to quality of care should be http://www.joe.org/joe/1995february/a3.html

February 1995 Volume 33 Number 1 Membership in a Professional Association Influence the Quality of Family Child Care? Karen DeBord, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Human Development and Family Studies University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri Internet address: debordk@ext.missouri.edu Janet Sawyers, Ph.D. Professor Department of Family and Child Development Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Blacksburg, Virginia Method Thirty-six family child care providers from northern Virginia were recruited by Extension Home Economists to participate in a child care provider training program. Demographic information about the providers' educational levels, number of years experience as a family child care provider, total years of formal education, extent of child care training, licensure status, and membership in professional associations was collected. Special efforts were made to locate family child care providers who were also members of professional or support organizations. Professional affiliation was defined as membership in a local affiliate of a nationally recognized child care and development organization or as membership in a locally organized family child care association that was part of a state organizational structure. Family child care providers were paired with University Extension educators, each working with two to four providers. The Extension educator and the provider agreed to a training schedule and method of learning. Then over a three-month period, training was conducted. Some providers were involved exclusively in self-study readings with optional access to videotapes and audiotapes. Other providers received home visits benefitting from conversations with the trainer, resource materials that were delivered and discussed, and subtle demonstrations of appropriate adult-child interactions by the trainer with the children in care.

72. Subsidized Child Care Services Programs and family child care home networks operated or operated by either student associationsor the comprehensive services as General child care and Development http://www.cde.ca.gov/cyfsbranch/child_development/programs.htm

California Dept. of Education A-Z Index Search Help ... Management Systems Child Care and Development Program Summary Fiscal Year 2002-03 Child Development The Budget Act of 2002 appropriated $2.3 billion for the California Department of Education's (CDE), Child Care and Development Program in a mix of State (60 percent) and federal (40 percent) funds. This represents a 0.1 percent increase from the prior year. There are over 2,000 contracts dispersed through approximately 850 public and private agencies statewide to support and provide services to over 584,000 children. General Child Care and Development :These are State funded and federal funded programs that utilize centers and family child care home networks operated or administered by either public or private agencies and local education agencies. They provide child care and development services from infancy to age 14 for State funded programs and to age 13 for federal funded programs. These facilities provide an educational program component that is developmentally, culturally, and linguistically appropriate for the children served. They also provide nutrition, parent education, staff development, and referrals for health and social services. Migrant Child Care and Development: These programs serve children of agricultural workers while their parents are at work. The centers are open for varying lengths of time during the year depending largely on the harvest activities in the area. In addition to these center-based programs, the budget year in FY 2002-03 continues to provide for the Migrant Alternative Payment Network Program that allows eligibility and funding for services to follow migrant families as they move from place to place to find work in the Central Valley.

73. Commonwealth Department Of Family And Community Services | Parenting, Early Chil role in service delivery and the encouragement of local networks. The Playgroup Associationsalso provide advice to people about Indigenous child care services. http://www.facs.gov.au/internet/facsinternet.nsf/family/parenting-parenting_earl

@import url( /internet/facsinternet.nsf/css/body/$File/body.css); @import url( /internet/facsinternet.nsf/css/body/$File/body.css); Home Newsroom Contact FaCS Search Parenting, Early Childhood Intervention and Child Abuse Prevention The following links take you direct to a specific section of this web page. Introduction Allocation of new funds Child Abuse Prevention Early intervention parenting projects ... Indigenous parenting and family wellbeing The following link takes you to a related page on this web site. Family and Children's Services Branch web page Introduction The Commonwealth Government, through the Family and Children's Services Branch of the Commonwealth Department of Family and Community Services (FaCS), is encouraging and facilitating a national approach to parenting and early childhood intervention and promoting best practice in the area of child abuse prevention. In relation to parenting and early childhood intervention, the State and Territory governments have the key role in service delivery and the encouragement of local networks. Under the Australian Constitution, child protection and tertiary intervention services are the responsibility of the community services department in each State and Territory. Return to top ACCAP web site National Child Abuse Prevention Awards Return to top Allocation of new funds From time to time, FaCS provides funding for time-limited projects that support and strengthen parenting roles, contribute to the development and wellbeing of children in the early years and assist in the prevention of child abuse. The projects may increase awareness or provide practical advice, resources or strategies to deal with particular issues.

74. Homeland Ministries Networks: Disciples Women child care facilities;; Schools, School Nurses;; Food pantries;; Local ministerialassociations;; include personal care items such as hair scrunchies http://www.homeland.org/NETWORKS/Women/icwfproject.htm

Disciples women ICWF service project: Undies and Socks for Girls Who: ICWF Service Project What: donate brand NEW panties and socks Where: to local agencies (see suggested places) When: January 2001 through June 2002 Why: a way to "Nurture the Girl Child" Suggested places to donate: Child Protective Services or Human Services; National Benevolent Association, children's homes; Women's shelters; Shelters for homeless people; Family and social services; Red Cross; Child care facilities; Schools, School Nurses; Food pantries; Local ministerial associations; Hospital Chaplains; Salvation Army; etc ... more How: Check with local agency to determine needs. You could invite an agency representative to speak or your group could visit. Purchase various sizes of girl's undies and socks (as agency indicates need.) Dedicate the items in worship and deliver them.

75. NC LRC Cat: Subject Index Assessment; associations, institutions, etc. Australia. child care; child abuse;child care services; child, Preschool; children; children of immigrants; http://www.sagrelto.com/hcat2/hsundx1.htm

Resource Catalog Subject Index 20th century. A Ability testing. Academic achievement ... âEvaluation. To: NC LRC Home Resource Catalog Indexes Main Title Author Subject For more information on NC LRC's resources and services, contact: NC LRC Last updated Thursday, October 12, 19100.

76. Mothers Speak Out On Child Care a mother's awareness and response to her child(ren)'s adequate leave policies forthe care of children led support groups and local associations in mentoring http://www.familyandhome.org/policy/pub_msoocc.htm

HOME CONTACT US Public Policy Information: Mothers Speak Out On Child Care Editor's Note: The following is adapted from Mothers Speak Out On Child Care (MSOOCC), a policy concept paper published by Mothers At Home (1989) in response to the national debate about the needs of children. Legislators under pressure to end the nation's child care woes may be rushing to give America's mothers precisely what they do not want. The fact is, as political cries for "more quality child care" reach a near-deafening level, millions of women are quietly looking toward another kind of solution to their needs. They are looking for creative work options that allow them to rear their own children. Whether they choose to pull back from full-time work to part-time, open a home-based business, or quit employment altogether while their children are young, the motivation for most mothers remains the same to keep their children out of full-time child care. Yet, political leaders, perhaps unaware of this trend, are ready to provide mothers with exactly the kind of care they are trying to avoid. Sought out by various child care advocates representing business, labor, social services, and education many legislators have considered the advice of everyone except the very group whose interests they seek to promote: this nation's mothers. In 1988, Mothers At Home surveyed the readers of its monthly journal

77. Nontraditional Employment For Women -- Childcare Resource Guide childcare networks. childcare Network, Phone, Neighborhoods. Family child CareCitywide Association, Inc. Senior centers, groups or associations. Useful Links. http://www.new-nyc.org/childcare.php

Childcare Resource Guide This childcare resource guide lists local childcare networks and referral agencies. Childcare referral agencies can help locate providers who offer flexible hours of care to meet the needs of working parents. Childcare networks make referrals to childcare providers within the network, and they are responsible for monitoring their members. Childcare providers accept ACD, Begin and/or private payments. This resource guide is a work in progress and will be updated periodically. Please contact NEW with any questions or suggestions you may have. City Agencies City Agency Phone Comments Agency for Child Development 109 East 16th Street New York, New York 10003 This agency provides subsidized childcare for eligible families. Call this agency to apply for subsidized childcare. New York City Department of Health 160 West 100th Street, New York, New York 10025 This agency certifies childcare providers by checking for criminal record and performing safety inspections of the childcare facilities. Call this agency to verify that a provider is registered and to find out if it has a complaint history. Childcare Referral Services Childcare Referral Service Phone Comments Childcare, Inc.

78. US Health Care Associations And Societies provider resources, upcoming events, state associations, grassroots network training,CWLA Managed care Institute, and can find it on the child Welfare League http://www.jcaho.org/general public/making better choices/health care links/us h

79. Foster Care Report - Federal-Provincial Working Group On Child And Family Servic Any allegations of child abuse in a family care or neglect; reviewing quality of careconcerns; and Columbia Federation of Foster Parent associations (BCFFPA). http://www.hrdc-drhc.gc.ca/sp-ps/socialp-psociale/cfs/foster_care/2000/2000e_12.

Français Contact Us Help Search ... F/P/T Working Group on Child and Family Services Information Foster Care Report September 2000 British Columbia Introduction Foster families provide substitute parenting in a family home for children in the charge, care, custody or guardianship of "a director" designated under Section 91 of the Child, Family and Community Service Act . The goal for children in foster care is to return them to their own families, wherever possible, or to plan for permanency through adoption. This goal may be met successfully when there is a co-operative partnership between the foster family, the child's family and staff of the Ministry for Children and Families. Each foster family is the administrative responsibility of the regional office in whose jurisdiction it is located. Types of Care Settings Range of Care Setting Options A child in the charge, care, custody or guardianship of the director must be placed in a director-approved resource. The director chooses from two main types of directly funded residential services: family care homes and specialized residential services. Family Care Homes Family care is the out-of-home living arrangement which most closely replicates the preferred environment for a child's upbringing. Most family care homes offer interim substitute parenting to children while supporting important relationships of children to their parents and extended families.

80. NYS Citizens' Coalition For Children, Inc. Guided by a belief in the right of every child to a Resources for Foster and AdoptiveParent associations Information. Adoption and Foster care Articles. http://www.nysccc.org/main.htm

NYSCCC Mission Statement Incorporated in 1975, the Coalition is an organization of concerned citizens and 150 volunteer adoptive and foster parent groups in every region of New York State. Guided by a belief in the right of every child to a permanent, loving family, the Coalition's goals are to: Improve services available to children at risk of or in out of home care Increase citizen involvement in local service planning and delivery Require greater public accountability of the NYS Office of Children and Family Services, other systems providing out of home care for children, and local agencies Represent the citizen's viewpoint in advocating for improved adoption and foster care services. The Coalition is concerned primarily with system-change advocacy and individuals taking responsibility for influencing and changing the systems affecting their lives and the lives of their children. Click here to join the Coalition's email advocacy network. What you'll find here: NYSCCC 2003 Annual Training Conference "How Are the Children?" May 8 - 10, 2003 Click Here to Win an Original Aafke Steenhuis Quilt NYSCCC Programs and Services ... Foster Care Rates and Adoption Subsidy Advocacy in Action! Tax Benefits for Foster and Adoptive Parents Resources for Foster and Adoptive Parent Associations Information Adoption and Foster Care Articles LINK Families: Linking Information Networks for Kids Information and online foster parent survey Becoming an Adoptive Parent Becoming a Foster Parent Information NYS's Separated Siblings Information

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