Parent education/family strengthening : First Steps effective practices report
The intent of this paper is to briefly describe the families whose children are likely to be assessed as “not ready for school” and the prevalent parent education/family strengthening programs funded through South Carolina’s First Steps to School Readiness initiative as documented with Program Effectiveness Reports and the Planning, Implementation and Evaluation documents which provide the basis for all the South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness data used in this report. Additionally, this paper will highlight the association between recommended best practice found in research and the current characteristics and activities of the South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness funded programs and relate this information in a way that programs and practices might use to strengthen their efforts to empower and change parents, families and children.
On board early: Building strong family-school relations
likely to maintain this involvement in the child's later schooling. The main goal of On Board Early was to strengthen parents in their role as their children's primary teachers and to engage them in family-school experiences that strengthen their children's success. By strengthening parent and family involvement, the belief was that children (and their families) could better experience success in various school activities and interactions. This goal of increasing family and child competence is especially critical in the selected schools in Baltimore County because they are experiencing the effects of major social and economic change. Like many communities, Baltimore County, Maryland is affected by the disappearance of once thriving blue-collar industries. Increased unemployment, undereducation, family stress, and increasing cultural diversity are producing a need for more responsive early childhood education strategies. School and community leaders believe in parent and family involvement as a means for instigating changes that can lead to healthier and more successful children and families (Comer, 1991; Rich, 1987).
Targeting oral anticoagulation
Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics (2000) 68, 4–5; doi: 10.1067/mcp.2000.108197