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Volume 1-6, 1993 Building Villages to Raise Our Children: Six Volume Set Harvard Family Research Project View all publications in this series

Written for program administrators and staff, each report summarizes current thinking in family support and education. The volumes cover the following topics: Collaboration, Community Outreach, Evaluation, From Programs to Service Systems, Funding and Resources, and Staffing.  You may also order each volume individually.

About this series
The Building Villages series includes an overview volume and guides on five topics: collaboration, funding and resources, evaluation, community outreach, and staffing. The goal of the series is to provide information that will help you create a caring community for children and families, a village of services that will give children a healthy start and the family a supportive network of services. Each guide provides a framework for thinking about its topic and information to apply to your own programming effort. The guides contain practical suggestions based on the experiences of many programs. The series provides a set of building blocks for a community approach to supporting families.