Beyond the Blueprint Directions for Research on Head Start's Families (1996) / Chapter Skim
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5 Head Start Families in a Changing Economic Landscape
5 Head Start Families in a Changing Economic Landscape
Pages 40-50
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To obtain a current profile of the prevalence and chror~icity with which children and staffin Head Start are exposed to community and domestic violence and to increase public awareness of the contemporary conditions under which Head Start must operate, consider opportunities for appending a supplemental interview focused on these issues tO staff ants family surveys that are in the field or being contemplated. Staff, for example, could be asked to identify the extent and degree to which children in their care exhibit behaviors that have been linked to post-traumatic stress disorders in children (e.g., reenacting violent events, social withdrawal, diminished range of affect, startle responses, and hypervigilance)
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effects on how programs interact with parents and on parent involvement and home visits? Who appears to be coping well and why?
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Although Heat] Start programs currently have legistative authority to use funds for full-clay services, administrative policies over the past several years have discouraged such practices (U.S.
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As welfare reform at the state level affects a growing share of Heacl Start-eiigible families, pressures on the program to articulate its relation not only to parents' childrearing responsibilities, but also to their responsibilities (ancl requirements) to prepare for and sustain paid employment, will mount.
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In accessing these questions, members of the rouncitable first acknowlecigec3 that research that focuses on the changing economic lancI' scape of Head Start-eligible families will confront a central tension concerning the program's fundamental goals. Head Start was not designed primarily to meet the chilc!
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Head The goal of the Head Start Family Service Center Demonstration Projects is to ameliorate the interrelated problems of illiteracy, substance abuse, and unemployment, which limit the capacity of many Head Start families to achieve self-sufficiency. This project is conducted in collaboration with local community programs.
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Second, efforts within Head Start to stretch parent involvement to embrace literacy and job training initiatives have generated important new insights into what it takes to successfully promote economic self-sufficiency. For example, progress, like development in general, is seldom linear or entirely predictable.
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Parent Involvement in the New Economic Context Schooling, job training, and employment inevitably restrict the options for parent involvement that are realistically available to Heat] Start families.
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Research is neecled to identify promising avenues for involving these indivicluals in Heacl Start. James Levine argued that programs again and again have demonstrated that fathers can be involved in Head Start programs and that, when they are, there are benefits to the child and to the family.
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Mental health and substance abuse services may be another element of effective parent involvement strategies at some, if not many, Heat] Start sites.
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Start programs in samples for Head Start research initiatives. The rouncitable members were highly cognizant of the great divide that now characterizes the research literatures on child care, education, mental health, pediatrics, Heacl Start, and other related clisciplines and was supportive of efforts aimed at bridging the disciplinary clivicles.
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