Counseling
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AIDS-Prevention Programs: High-Risk Groups Still Hard to Reach This report assesses the progress of the Counseling and Testing Program, designed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) to prevent the spread of AIDS. The program, which was funded by a cooperative agreement with CDC, enables state and local healt... Project End Date: 06/20/91 |
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Youth Suicide Prevention Programs: A Resource Guide This study examines various youth suicide-prevention strategies and describes model programs that incorporate these approaches, so that similar programs might be developed in other communities. First, eight effective prevention strategies include tra... Project End Date: 06/20/91 |
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AIDS Targeted Outreach Model: Increasing the Capability of Methadone Maintenance Programs In 1987, in an effort to address the problem of AIDS, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) initiated AIDS Community Outreach Programs throughout the country. This report describes one project that tested the capability of methadone maintenance... Project End Date: 01/20/91 |
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Clinical Role of the Community Pharmacist: Case Studies This paper provided analyses and summaries of case studies referenced in a companion report, "The Clinical Role of the Community Pharmacist." The case studies focus on six community pharmacists who provide a broad range of clinical services (i.e., se... Project End Date: 11/20/90 |
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Children's Safety Research Project This report presents the findings of the Children's Safety Research Project (CSRP), a two-year program examining factors related to parental compliance with injury prevention recommendations. Funded by the Centers for Disease Control, CSRP involved d... Project End Date: 08/20/90 |
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AIDS Education: Issues Affecting Counseling and Testing Programs This report presents GAO's preliminary observations of the operations and effectiveness of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) counseling and testing programs relating to the human immune deficiency virus (HIV), which causes acquired immune deficie... Project End Date: 02/20/89 |
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Effects of Alternative Family Support Strategies Interest in services supporting families in their role as caregivers to frail and disabled elderly has emerged in response to the rapid increase in the num-ber of impaired elderly and the cost of custodial care. An experimental design was used in thi... Project End Date: 12/20/87 |
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: A Selected Annotated Bibliography for 1975-1985 This annotated bibliography contains both print and nonprint materials on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and related topics. The study is designed for professionals, consumers, and the families of children who have died of SIDS, and contains mat... Project End Date: 11/20/86 |
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Independent Living Services for Youth in Substitute Care A substantial number of the 16,000 adolescents discharged from foster care in 1984 because they had reached the age of maturity had not been provided the skills necessary to achieve self-sufficiency. This study (1) identified and described programs a... Project End Date: 06/20/86 |
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Federally Supported Centers Provide Needed Services for Runaways and Homeless Youths The Runaway and Homeless Youth Act authorizes funds for centers that give temporary shelter to youths who have run away from home, left their homes per-manently, or been definitively expelled by their families. Centers are to provide counseling and a... Project End Date: 09/20/83 |
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Comprehensive Health Education Programs for the Parents of Deaf Children The principal activities of this project were to establish an advisory panel, conduct a literature search, and develop measurable outcome objectives for the curriculum to be developed. The literature search was broken down into several components: he... Project End Date: 06/20/83 |
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Home Delivered Meals Program: A Service Delivery Assessment This is a follow-up report to "Home-Delivered Meals Service Delivery Assessment" published in March 1982. The purpose of the study was to develop a pro-file of the home-meal clients to gain some insights into the characteristics of the Title III home... Project End Date: 02/20/81 |
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Program Helps Families but Needs Improvements Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is the unexpected and sudden death of an apparently healthy infant. This study examined the effectiveness of services provided by the SIDS Counseling and Information program. GAO reviewed 365 case files and intervi... Project End Date: 02/20/81 |
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Evaluation of the Youth Demonstration Grants Program The Youth Demonstration Grant Program was designed to test and demonstrate the capacity of projects funded under the Runaway Youth Act to more comprehensively address the problems of youth and families in the communities in which they are located bey... Project End Date: 02/20/81 |
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Comparison of Mental Health Treatment Center and Drug Abuse Treatment Center Approaches to Nonopiate Drug Abuse This report presents the findings of a study on the treatment of nonopiate drug abusers in drug abuse treatment centers and mental health treatment centers. Three types of settings were considered: (1) four freestanding drug abuse clinics; (2) four d... Project End Date: 12/20/79 |
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