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ERIC Number: EJ839479
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2009
Pages: 3
Abstractor: ERIC
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0164-8527
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Family Support Builds Stronger Families: The Roots of Family-Supportive Child Care
Seiderman, Ethel
Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, n186 p66-68 Mar-Apr 2009
Parent Services Project (PSP) is one model of family support that emerged from the heightened awareness of families' needs. Founded in 1980 to integrate family support into four San Francisco Bay Area early childhood programs, PSP since has spread to more than 800 organizations serving 30,000 families in Alaska, California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, and Ohio. Parents, teachers, and other program personnel attend workshops, led by PSP staff, where they learn how to implement family support programs. The workshops offer flexible, adaptable strategies that work in varied child care settings--child care centers, family child care homes, public schools, Head Start programs, teen parenting services, migrant worker communities, and other community settings. PSP has produced two teaching curricula for these workshops, Stronger Together and Making Room in the Circle, both of which explore family support practices and principles.
Exchange Press, Inc. P.O. Box 3249, Redmond, WA 98073-3249. Tel: 800-221-2864; Fax: 425-867-5217; e-mail: info@ChildCareExchange.com; Web site: http://www.childcareexchange.com
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
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