Family Development Project

Spotlight on FDP (11/4/02)

At the April, 2002 Brown Bag Session, FDP shared its progress with the larger community. The Family Development Project has made unique strides in collaboration, developing a research goal that serves the needs of their partners. Their overall goal is to improve mental health services for Head Start children and families by developing a program of mental health intervention, assessment, referral, services, and follow-up. In addition to their efforts in using parents and teachers in collaboration as resources to identify high-needs children, they have also been working to increase use of and access to technology at project sites. They emphasize skills training and empowerment as the keys to new technology implementation.

Look at the PowerPoint presentation from the brown bag session.

Listen and watch as participants in the collaboratory share their thoughts about the collaboratory and its work on Quicktime video. Get Quicktime now.

	Cynthia Hudgins, GPY director, talks about technology use by FDP. Watch the Quicktime Video. (52 seconds)
Michael Spencer talks about community collaboratories. Watch the Quicktime Video. (1.5 min) Michael Spencer talks about community technology needs. Watch the Quicktime video. (63 sec.)
	Noah from Head Start makes a play-do pancake with Gwen. Watch the Quicktime movie. (32 sec) Gwen from Head Start talks about how teachers gather data. Watch the Quicktime movie. (12 sec)
Debbie Harrison, a Detroit Head Start Director, talks about the importance of rapid data turnaround. Watch the Quicktime video. (24 sec)

Last updated: 3/25/03

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