A professional family life or youth development educator can function as a mentor to natural community leaders. The most important task of the professional educator may be to make the volunteers aware of how much they know and to encourage them to follow through on their own beliefs. Because of the limited emotional and spiritual energy available…

A Canadian elementary level social studies curriculum combines the study of home, school, and community with the broader study of the nation and world through a multi-spiral approach. Described are the following units: the primary grade level (orientation, self, home, neighborhood, and school), grade 1 (families), grade 2 (communities), grade 3…

This document is a curriculum guide for a one-semester course "Home and Family" for students in grades 11 and 12. The course is planned to cover the nature, function, and significance of human relationships within the family unit; interpersonal skills; preparation for marriage; development of positive self-concept and responsibility in family…

The Family and Life Education program at Aims Community College (ACC) in Colorado began in 1967 as prenatal classes taught by volunteer instructors who were registered nurses with backgrounds in maternal-child health. Currently, the program, which is co-sponsored by ACC and North Colorado Medical Center, involves a program coordinator, three staff…

Nationally, interest in family life and parenting programs has grown amidst concern for "basic education." Parenting education in today's schools may be justified because of increased family stress and deteriorating family support systems. Most parenting and family life courses are offered within home economics departments, have a narrow…

This updated version of a 1985 monograph includes new findings on Project Redirection, a program intended to ameliorate many severe problems that typically accompany childbearing among economically disadvantaged adolescents. It opens with a review of the consequences of teenage pregnancy and the Redirection approach for addressing the problems.…

This booklet contains five sample lessons integrating population education into health and home economics instruction. It is one of four in a series. Materials differ from those in an earlier series (1980) in that lessons are presented at the secondary level only; there is no duplication of lessons from the earlier series in content and teaching…

This guidebook provides information to help local communities plan and carry out National Community Education Day, a day that has been promoted since 1982. The guide is organized in six sections. The first section contains a message for local sponsors and an overview of early childhood and family education. The second section provides ideas for…

This family life instructional unit is organized around four themes: (1) the importance of families; (2) human growth and development; (3) dilemmas and issues; and (4) promoting positive lifestyle practices. Lessons in the dilemmas and issues section include more in-depth information on subjects such as marriage and issues related to sexuality and…

This document describes an evaluation of the Family Living including Sex Education (FL/SE) program of the New York City public schools. The evaluation summary describes the FL/SE as a comprehensive, sequenced curriculum for kindergarten through high school on the topics of human growth and development, family relationships, friendship,…

This discussion of the development of family life education (FLE) in Swaziland is presented in three sections. Chapter One examines social change in developing nations which has resulted in: (1) large migrations from rural to urban areas; (2) strain on the capacity and effectiveness of the schools; (3) disturbance of the traditional family…

This discussion guide coordinates with the first 20 films in a series intended for use by leaders in working with parents, prospective parents, childcare workers, and students of child development within civic groups, church groups, and other community organizations concerned with the welfare of children. It is designed to aid leaders in helping…

This student guide for a program focusing on the relationship or bond between parent and child discusses how this bond forms, how it affects the development of the child, why children find it hard to separate from their parents and how they deal with the separation fears, and provides some practical suggestions for making inevitable separations…

This student guide for a program concerned with creativity in its broadest sense focuses on how people of all occupations and ages can think creatively, how children gain the ability to think and act in imaginative ways, and what parents can do to support this growth. Designed around a magazine format to allow maximum flexibility to different…

The rationale, background, and nature of family enrichment programs is explained. These structured, skill training approaches for couples and families consist of six lessons with four to six exercises per lesson. They are extremely structured to the point that instructions to trainers are given verbatim. Trainers can modify these instructions and…