| SPECIAL SESSIONS |
| Opening Session - Edward Zigler |
| Opening Night Reception - Ann
Rosewater |
| Luncheon I - Olivia A. Golden |
| Luncheon II - Valeria Lovelace |
| Plenary I |
| Psychosocial Adversity: Risk, Resilience, and Recovery |
| Plenary II |
| The Reality of Partnerships |
| Plenary III and Closing |
| Translating Research into Practice |
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| SYMPOSIA |
| Head Start Partnerships, Research, Practice,
and Policy |
| Head Start Research: Informing Quality Practices
and Policy Construction |
| The Reality of Partnerships |
| Case Studies of University/Community Research Partnerships |
| Implementing the New Head Start Research Agenda:
The Head Start Quality Research Center Consortium |
| Early Head Start Forum |
| Head Start Correlate Studies |
| The Design of a National Longitudinal Study of
Head Start Children |
| Head Start Research Fair |
| Wider Windows on Head Start |
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| ACYF Research, Demonstration, and Evaluation
Branch Symposia |
| Evaluation of the Head Start/Public School Early
Childhood Transition Demonstration |
| Evaluation of the Head Start Comprehensive Child
Development Program (CCDP) |
| Evaluation of Head Start Family Service and Head
Start Family Child Care Demonstrations |
| Descriptive Studies of Head Start Bilingual/Multicultural
Services Population and the Migrant Head Start Program |
| Descriptive Study of the Head Start Health Component |
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| Community Violence and Substance Abuse |
| Strategies for Working with Children and Families
from Substance-Exposed Environments: Research and Its Implications
for Head Start Practitioners and Policymakers |
| Preventing Community Violence: What Works? |
| Addressing Violence in the Community, Part I: Violence-Prevention
Strategies |
| Addressing Violence in the Community, Part II:
Strategies for Helping Traumatized Children |
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| Early Education, Child Care, and School
Readiness |
| New Kids on the Block: The National Institute on
Early Childhood Development and Education/U.S. Department of Education
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| Head Start: Part-Day Program in a Full-Day World |
| Early Child Care in the Lives of Low-Income Children:
A Substudy of Head Start-Eligible Children From the NICHD Study
of Early Child Care |
| The Impact of Professional Development Experiences
on Quality in Child Care |
| Emerging Narrative Abilities Among Low-Income Children:
Influence of Practices in the Home, Intervention, and Relationship
to Social Competence |
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| Family Support and Parenting |
| Longitudinal Research With High-Risk Families |
| Enhancing Resiliency Through Family/Community Interventions
With High-Risk Children: Current Canadian Models |
| A Head Start for Families Experiencing Homelessness |
| Family-Centered Home Visits: How Do We Know They
Are Family-Centered? |
| Children in Out-of-Home Care |
| Parenting in Early Intervention Programs: Program
Goals, Effects, and Measurement Strategies |
| What Do We Know About Enhancing Parent/Child Communication
and Interaction With Infants and Toddlers? |
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| Health, Mental Health, and Resiliency |
| Biological and Environmental Factors That Influence
Child Development |
| Community Child Health in the 1990s: Integrating
Community Child Health, Part I |
| Community Child Health in the 1990s: Head Start
and Managed Care -The Minnesota Experience, Part II |
| Health and Safety in Head Start |
| Children in Context: Effects of Family and Child
Care Stressors on Preschoolers' Physical and Mental Health |
| Research Perspectives on Community Partnerships
for Effective Inclusion, Part I |
| Inclusion of Children with Special Needs in Head
Start: An Ecological Systems Analysis, Part H |
| Psychosocial Adversity: Risk, Resilience, and Recovery |
| The Resilient Children Making Healthy Choices Project:
Translating Resiliency Research Into Practice |
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| Methods for Assessing Low-Income Minority
Families |
| The Measurement of Developmental Competencies:
Implications for Head Start Research |
| Issues in Developmental Research With Children
and Families of Diverse Backgrounds |
| Assessing Families and Neighborhood Conditions
in Hispanic Communities |
| Strengthening the Links Between Research and Practice:
Lessons Learned in Conducting Research on Children, Families,
and Communities With Multiple Challenges |
| Methods for Head Start Research: New Developments
and Recurring Issues |
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| Program Evaluation |
| Building Bridges Among Researchers, Communities,
and Policymakers: The Role of Program Evaluation in Addressing
the Needs of Adolescent Mothers and Their Children |
| Collaborative Approaches to the Evaluation of Family
Support and Preservation Programs |
| Assessing Program Quality |
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| Miscellaneous |
| New Directions for Minority Research in Head Start |
| Recent Foundation Initiatives to Improve the Lives
of Young Children and Their Families |
| Research From Historically Black Colleges: A Poster/Symposium |
| Positive Aspects of Media on Children |
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| POSTERS |
| Adolescent Mothers |
| Applications From Research in Other Countries |
| Child Care |
| Child Mental Health Issues |
| Children With Special Needs |
| Cultural and Linguistic Diversity |
| Curriculum and Classroom Practice |
| The Family in the Community |
| Family Support and Self-Sufficiency |
| Health and Nutrition |
| Infants and Toddlers |
| Literacy and the Home Learning Environment |
| Mental Health and Mental Health Interventions |
| New Approaches, Methods, and Measures |
| Normative Child Development |
| Parenting, Parent Education, and Parent
Involvement |
| Professional Development |
| Social and Academic Competence |
| Stressors: Homelessness |
| Stressors: Poverty and Its Ramifications |
| Transition |
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| APPENDIXES |
| Appendix A: Cooperating Organizations
and Program Committee |
| Appendix B: Peer Reviewers |
| Appendix C: Subject Index |
| Appendix D: Directory of Participants |
