Evaluating comprehensive family service programs: Conference overview
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Since 1986 a number of federal agencies have initiated large-scale demonstration programs designed to relieve the deprivation of parents and children in impoverished families. The evaluation of such programs formed the subject of a conference held in Washington on November 14-15, 199 1. The conference was one of a series jointly sponsored by the Institute and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007