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  • The development, application, and evaluation of a culturally-appropriate, fully-integrated parenting curriculum

    Creator:
    Alaniz, Jody A.
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    Few parenting curricula exist that are culturally-appropriate to the Mexican-immigrant population served by many programs. The Even Start family literacy program has four integrated components, making it more difficult to find appropriate curricula for the families they serve. During Winter 2006, discussion groups were conducted with participants in two Even...
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    Mexican- immigrant population served by many programs. The Even Start family literacy program has four

  • The ripple effect : relationship changes in the context of a family literacy program

    Creator:
    Merrill, Marina L.
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    Using a qualitative approach, this study explored how participation in a family literacy program can impact important relationships beyond the targeted parent-child dyad. Interviews with 108 parents, were collected over four program years, 1996-1999, as part of the statewide evaluation of Oregon's Even Start Family Literacy programs, were analyzed using...
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  • Families' experiences with Oregon Healthy Start

    Creator:
    Kapsch, Marybeth M.
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    This study utilized a qualitative approach to explore how Healthy Start home visiting services affect participants' parenting and lives in general. The purpose of this study was to explore both the intended and unintended outcomes of Healthy Start, using the theory of transformative learning. This theory postulates that through education...
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    families who are currently participating in the Oregon Healthy Start home-visiting program; exploring how

  • Self-identity and self-esteem of recent female Mexican migrants in an even start program

    Creator:
    Polit, Gabriela
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    The purpose of the study is to explore the life experiences, identities, and self-esteem of a group of Mexican women who attend Even Start, a family literacy program. The study also focuses on the effect that the program has on the women's self-identities. I chose qualitative research considering I was...
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    of Recent Female Mexican Migrants in an Even Start Program Abstract approved: Nancy R. Rosenberger

  • The efficiency of a retrospective pretest : how does the parenting ladder perform?

    Creator:
    Kneedler, Blythe K.
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    As program participants integrate new knowledge and understanding into previous standards regarding attitudes or perceptions, these altered standards violate the assumption of consistency inherent to the pretest-posttest method for measuring change over time. If this violation, or response-shift bias, is not controlled results can be misleading, which carries serious implications...
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    Oregon Healthy Start program, evaluation, and data. The author is grateful that data for this study

  • Head start parent education to promote positive parent-child feeding relationships

    Creator:
    Huang, Yu-Chi
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    Studies have shown that parental feeding practice has an impact on the child's dietary intake, food preference and weight status. Our study focused on teaching parents the division of responsibility in parent-child feeding relationship as well as benefits of eating meals together, since feeding practice takes place during the mealtime....
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    takes place during the mealtime. This study was conducted with Head Start parents at Oregon State

  • Initiating health and nutrition programs in rural Oregon using community based participatory research

    Creator:
    McCulley, Elizabeth
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    The purpose of this project was to explore health and nutrition concerns and priorities of parents and caregivers of children enrolled in Kids and Company (KidCo) Head Start using Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR). The project examined the feasibility of conducting CBPR with Head Start in the relatively short timeframe...
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    nutrition education program to augment existing Head Start nutrition education efforts, a partnership