Effective Services for Young Children : Report of a Workshop.

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.

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