Foreword
Part One: Family Support in a Changing Context
1. America's Children and Families: An International Perspective(Urie Bronfenbrenner, Peter R. Neville)
2. The Evolution of the Family Resource Movement(Bernice Weissbourd)
Part Two: Institutional Change and Family Support
3. Home and School: The Unresolved Relationship(Barbara T. Bowman)
4. Strategies for a Family-Supportive Child Health Care System(Barry Zuckerman, T. Berry Brazelton)
5. Transforming Social Services: Family-Supportive Strategies(Ruth W. Massinga)
6. Families and Work: The Importance of the Quality of the Work Environment(Ellen Galinsky)
7. Family Support Programs in Black Churches: A New Look at Old Functions(Cleopatra Howard Caldwell, Angela Dungee Greene, Andrew Billingsley)
8. Family Support and Criminal Justice(Ann Adalist-Estrin)
Part Three: Programmatic Change and Family Support
9. Supporting the Family Support Worker(Frances Stott, Judith S. Musick)
10. Family Support and Care of the Elderly: Program and Policy Challenges(Benjamin H. Gottlieb, Monique A. M. Gignac)
11. Addressing the Challenges of Diversity(Eugene E. Garcia)
12. Funding Family Support Programs(Judy Langford Carter)
Part Four: Policy Change and Family Support
13. Family Support and Community Development(James Garbarino, Kathleen Kostelny)
14. Local Initiatives in Support of Families(Norman B. Rice)
15. State Government and Family Support: From Marginal to Mainstream(Charles Bruner)
16. Family Support on the Federal Policy AgAnda(Frank Farrow)
Part Five: Challenges for the Family Support Movement
17. Defining and Achieving Quality in Family Support(Sharon L. Kagan)
18. Education for Professionals in Family Support(Dolores G. Norton)
19. Evaluating Family Support Programs: Are We Making Progress?(Douglas R. Powell)
Part Six: Conclusion
20. Toward a New Normative System of Family Support(Sharon L. Kagan, Bernice Weissbourd)