National MultiCultural Institute (NMCI)
The NMCI is a private, non-profit organization founded to provide understanding and respect among people of difficult racial, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds. The organization offers diversity training and consulting, develops educational resource materials, and maintains a multi-lingual mental health counseling and referral service. It also organizes three national conferences a year on issues of culture, ethnicity, race, age, gender, and sexual preference. Contact the organization for additional information or for listing of their publications and videotapes, at:
NMCI
3000 Connecticut Ave., NW
Suite 438
Washington, DC 20008-2556
(202) 483-0700
(202) 483-5233
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"Starting Points: Meeting the Needs of Our Youngest Children"
By Kathryn Taaffe Young
This report stresses the critical importance of the first three years of life to healthy child development and future functioning. It cites the increasing neglect of children under three and the risks poor families face, including low-quality child care, insufficient stimulation, physical abuse and unintentional injury, fragmented social service, inadequate health care, deteriorating families, and conflicting demands on parents.
Examples of successful programs illustrate how Federal, State, and local governments and communities can implement improvements. 1994. 132 pages. Bulk prices available. Order from:
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Po Box 753
Waldorf, MD 20604
(212) 371-3200 |
""Our Families, Our Future" Video
This documentary video portrays the American family in crisis and shows how supporting and strengthening families is key to solving many of the nation's more serious social problems. It highlights successful multigenerational programs that are addressing the modern day stresses of family life and examines the current "family support" movement. 58 minutes.
The video is offered in collaboration with Public Television which is making the video available to Head Start centers at the following special price:
For more information on the video, or to order, contact:
Filmmakers' Productions
Attn: Linda Gottesman
124 E. 40th Street
New York, NY 10016
(212) 808-4980
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"Caring For Our Children"
From the American Academy of Pediatrics, this is the first-ever resource for educators which covers every important aspect of health and safety in out-of-home child care. It offers complete and thorough information for the development and evaluation of the health and safety aspects of family/group day-care homes and child care centers, based on recommendations and standards jointly developed by American Academy of Pediatrics and the AMerican Public Health Association. To obtain a copy this manual, contact:
American Academy of Pediatrics
141 Northwest Point Blvd.
PO Box 927
Elk Grove Village, IL 60009
(800) 433- 9016
(708) 228- 1281 Fax
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"Together We Can: A Guide for Crafting a Pro family System of Education and Human Services"
This book was developed jointly by the U.S. Department of Education (DE) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help communities improve coordination of education, health, and human services for at-risk children and families.
For a copy of this guide, or for more information on resources and materials from the DE, contact:
U.S. Department of Education
400 Maryland Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20202-7240
(202) 219-2116 |
"Families First: report of the National Commission on America's Urban Falsies"
This report provides a national strategy on strengthening American families, reducing social problems, and increasing the number of children growing up in two-parent homes. 1993. 96 pp. S/N 017-001-00486-3. $6.
Available, along with other publications catalog, from:
GPO Bookstore
710 N. Capitol Street, NW
Washington, DC 20401
(202) 653-5075
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