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"Zero to Three" is a single-focus bulletin of the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families providing insight from multiple disciplines on the development of infants, toddlers, and their families. Compiling articles from participants of the Leadership Development Initiative Class of 2001-2002, this issue focuses on evaluation of infant-family programs. The articles are as follows: (1) "Evaluating Programs that Serve Infants and Families: The Quest for Quality" (Virginia Buysse and Lisa Boyce); (2) "Evaluating Early Childhood Programs: Improving Quality and Informing Policy" (Walter S. Gilliam and Valerie Leiter); (3) "Enhancing the Quality of Relationships in Infant-Toddler Child Care: A Developmental Process" (Mimi A. Graham, Anne E. Hogan, Barbara A. White, and Christine A. Chiricos); (4) "Project Connect: Seeing the Forest and the Trees" (Gambi White-Tennant); (5) "Incorporating Principles of Family-Centered Practice in Early Intervention Program Evaluation" (Lauri S. Dinnebeil and Lynette M. Hale); (6) "Collaborative Program Evaluation: Hawaii's Experience with Early Intervention Services" (Taletha M. Derrington and Beppie J. Shapiro); (7) "Parents Keep Our Eyes on the Prize: Monitoring Early Intervention in Massachusetts" (Ron Benham, Patti Fougere, Faith Piaggi, and Katharine Thomas); (8) "California's Proposition 10 and Local Evaluation: A County-Level Report from the Field" (Marc R. Thibault, Pablo A. Stansbery, and Linda A. Wollesen); (9) "Every Child Counts: Creating a Community Holding Environment for Families with Young Children" (Deborah A. Bremond and Teddy Miller); (10) "Evaluating the Impact of Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Training on Community Agencies" (Mary Claire Heffron); (11) "From Program Evaluation to Persuasive Reports" (Sandra Smith and Judith Brown Clark); and (12) "Evidence-Based Program Evaluation: A Guide for Agencies to Self-Assess Their Practices and Policies" (Diana Hammon Kellegrew, Susan O'Brien, and Elaine Groppenbacher). The issue includes an additional point-of-view article, "Early Head Start--An Investment in our Youngest Citizens" by U.S. Senator Tom Harkin. Regular departments of the bulletin list Zero to Three publications, videotapes, and on-line resources. (HTH)

"Zero to Three" is a single-focus bulletin of the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families providing insight from multiple disciplines on the development of infants, toddlers, and their families. This issue focuses on the goals, expectations, and conflict in the relationship between culture and child caregiving and other care services. The articles are: (1) "Caregiver Goals and Societal Expectations" (Casper, Cooper, Finn and Stott); (2) "From Rocks to Diamonds: Mining the Riches of Diversity for Our Children" (Barrera); (3) "Listening to the Voices of Families: Thoughts, Hopes, and Fears in a Latino Community" (Stott and Halpern); (4) "Making New Choices Possible: Understanding Differences in Infant Feeding Practices between Latina Mothers and Anglo Health Care Providers" (Clark); (5) "A Relational and Sociocultural Approach in Services to a Mexican Family across Three Generations" (Rios Munoz); (6) "Talk to Your Baby: Honoring Diversity while Practicing from an Evidence Base" (Van Horn and Segal); (7) "Joining American Indian Systems of Care: The Complexities of Culturally Appropriate Practice" (Mayo-Willis and Hornstein); (8) "Cultural Models for Early Caregiving" (Finn); (9) "Barriers to Achieving Change: Dynamics of Social and Economic Differences in an Early Head Start Program" (Hallock); (10) "When Cultures Clash in Court: Expanding Understanding and Building on Hope" (Lederman); and (11) "Creating a Public Early Childhood Education System for a Pluralistic Parent Constituency: The Challenge of First 5 LA" (Cooper). Two additional articles describe an infant mental health evaluation process, and changes brought about by a new director at a child care center. Regular departments of the bulletin list Zero to Three publications, videotapes, and on-line resources, and announcements about Zero to Three staff. (HTH)

"Zero to Three" is a single-focus bulletin of the Zero to Three: National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families providing insight from multiple disciplines on the development of infants, toddlers, and their families. Noting that some communities are managing to establish and sustain good-quality infant-toddler care and to make it accessible to families with low incomes, this issue focuses on community partnerships for quality infant-toddler child care, based on a study of such programs by Zero to Three and Mathematica Policy Research. The articles are as follows: (1) "Quality Child Care for Infants and Toddlers from Families with Low Incomes: Lessons Learned from Three Communities" (Diane Paulsell, Renee Nogales, and Julie Cohen); (2) "The Community Consolidated Child Care Pilot Services Program, El Paso County, Colorado" (Paulsell and Nogales); (3) "Kansas and Missouri Early Head Start Programs: Kansas City, Kansas, and Sedalia, Missouri" (Paulsell and Nogales); (4) "Mountain Area Child and Family Centers, Buncombe County, North Carolina" (Paulsell and Nogales); and (5) "Parent Perspectives" (Paulsell and Nogales). Two additional articles not resulting from the study are: "Time To Care: Redesigning Child Care" (Joan Lombardi);"Promoting Mental Health in Child Care Settings: Caring for the Whole Child" (Ray Collins, Janet Mascia, Rosemary Kendall, Oxana Golden, Linda Schock, and Rebecca Parlakian). Regular departments of the bulletin list Zero to Three publications, videotapes and on-line resources, and announcements about Zero to Three staff. (HTH)

"Zero to Three is a single focus bulletin of the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families providing insight from multiple disciplines on the development of infants, toddlers, and their families. Noting the greater variety of families children are entering or in which children are growing up, this issue focuses on looking beyond family forms and circumstances to focus on the child's experience, the quality of the child's important relationship, and the support for healthy development that these provide. The articles draw on extensive reviews of research literature, longitudinal ethnographic research, intervention studies, clinical practice, and careful observation to explore many varieties of "responsible commitment" that parents make to children in the earliest years and to each other. The featured articles are as follows: (1) "For Better or for Worse: An Ecological Perspective on Parents' Relationships and Parent-Infant Interaction" (Amy Susman-Stillman, Karen Appleyard, and Jessica Seibenbruner); (2) "Marriage: A Luxury Good?" (Frank F. Furstenberg); (3) "Very Young Children in Lesbian- and Gay-Headed Families: Moving beyond Acceptance" (Virginia Casper); (4) "Kinscription: Mothers Keeping Fathers Connected to Children" (Kevin Roy and Linda Burton); (5) "The Caregiving System in Separated and Divorcing Parents" (Judith Solomon); and (6) "Parenting Together after Divorce: Navigating the Winds of Change" (Bernadette Marie Bullock and Marion S. Forgatch). Also included is a report on improving psychosocial preparedness for young children and families in the context of terrorism concerns (Howard J. Osofsky and Joy D. Osofsky). Regular departments in the bulletin list Zero to Three publications, videotapes and on-line resources, and Zero to Three staff announcements. (HTH)

"Zero to Three is a single focus bulletin of the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families providing insight from multiple disciplines on the development of infants, toddlers, and their families. Noting that sometimes practice needs to be "translated" into research, as with understanding the phenomenon of paraprofessional workers in infant/family service programs, this issue focuses on the complexity of paraprofessional practice in the infant/family field. The featured articles are as follows: (1) "The Professional Development of Paraprofessionals" (Sydney Hans and Jon Korfmacher); (2) "Becoming a Doula" (Erin F. Behnke and Sydney L. Hans); (3) "Benefits and Challenges of Paraprofessional Advocacy with Mothers Who Abuse Alcohol and Drugs and Their Children" (Therese Grant, Ann Streissguth, and Cara Ernst); (4) "The Helping Relationship in a Teen Parenting Program" (Jon Korfmacher and Isabela Marchi);(5) "The Chicago Health Connection's Teen Peer Leader Program: Helping Adolescent Mothers Tell the World about Breastfeeding" (Maryanne Locklin); and (6) "Extended Care: Family Child Care, Family Support, and Community Development in Low-Income Neighborhoods" (Juliet Bromer). Also included is a description of a therapeutic family child care project in rural, southern Illinois (Carol S. Klass). Regular departments in the bulletin list Zero to Three publications, videotapes and on-line resources, and Zero to Three staff announcements. (HTH)

"Zero to Three" is a single focus bulletin of the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families providing insight from multiple disciplines on the development of infants, toddlers, and their families. Noting that knowledge of childrens musical experiences in context is central to understanding childrens lives, and that reciprocally, knowledge of current trends in fields such as early childhood development and neuroscience informs interpretations of childrens musical experiences, this issue focuses on ideas for using what is known about the musical lives of children to promote and protect childrens healthy development. The featured articles are as follows: (1) The Musical Lives of Young Children: Inviting, Seeking, and Initiating (Lori A. Custodero); (2) Musicality and Music before Three: Human Vitality and Invention Shared with Pride (Colwyn Trevarthen and Stephen Malloch); (3) Mothers Are Musical Mentors (Sandra E. Trehub); (4) Lullabies and Playsongs: Why We Sing to Children (Laurel J. Trainor); (4) Music in the Time of Toddlers (Danette Littleton); (5) From Mozart to Motown, Lullabies to Love Songs: A Preliminary Report on Parents Use of Music with Infants Survey (PUMIS) (Lori A. Custodero, Pia R. Britto, and Tao Xin); and (6) The Toddler Top 40: Musical Preferences of Babies, Toddlers, and Their Parents (Elissa Johnson-Green and Lori A. Custodero). Also included are an annotated list of musical resources (Beatriz Ilari and Elissa Johnson-Green) and a description of a center for children in families in North Carolina (James Sexton). (HTH)

"Zero to Three is a single focus bulletin of the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families providing insight from multiple disciplines on the development of infants, toddlers, and their families. Noting that because the perinatal periodfrom the later stages of pregnancy through the first 6 months of the infants lifeis a period of transition, preoccupation, major biological upheaval, and one of forging new connections, it is also a highly vulnerable period, this issue focuses on perinatal mental health and theoretical, research, and clinical approaches to the period. The featured articles include the following: (1) Parental Preoccupation and Perinatal Mental Health (Linda C. Mayes); (2) Keeping the Baby in Mind: A Critical Factor in Perinatal Mental Health (Arietta Slade); (3) Postpartum Mood Changes: Are Hormones to Blame? (Neill Epperson); (4) Harris Programs in Prenatal Mental Health at the Yale Child Study Center (Linda Mayes); (5) Early Connections: Mother-Infant Psychotherapy in Support of Perinatal Mental Health (Eda Spielman); (6) Treating Maternal and Postpartum Depression: The Missing Link in an Early Childhood Mental Health Program (Sandra R. Wolkoff); (7) Maternal Mental Health: Early Identification in a Hospital-Based Multidisciplinary Setting (Ida Cardone); (8) The First Year Program: Developing the Earliest Relationship (Robin McClelland and Kathleen Chapman); (9) Infant Mental Health in a Healthy Families Home Visiting Program (Carol Baxter, Leslie S. Rose, and Janice Connelly); and (10) "Perinatal Mental Health in Shasta County, California" (Susan Howland Thompson). Regular departments in the bulletin list Zero to Three publications, videotapes and on-line resources, and Zero to Three staff announcements. (HTH)

"Zero to Three" is a single-focus bulletin of the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families providing insight from multiple disciplines on the development of infants, toddlers, and their families. Conceived by the Zero to Three Child Welfare Task Force, this issue focuses on agents of change for infants and toddlers in foster careindividuals, programs, institutions, and systems that are concerned with the growing numbers of very young children in the foster care system and their distinct, though often unrecognized, vulnerability. The featured articles in this issue are as follows: (1) "Ambiguous Outcomes, Imperfect Tools: Challenges in Intervention with Young Children in Foster Care and Their Families" (Alicia F. Lieberman); (2) "Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up: The ABC's of Helping Infants in Foster Care Cope with Early Adversity" (Mary Dozier, Deane Dozier, and Melissa Manni); (3) "Babies in Foster Care: The Numbers Call for Attention" (Fred Wulczyn and Kristen B. Hislop); (4) "Treating Infant-Parent Relationships in the Context of Maltreatment: Repairing Ruptures of Trust" (Julie A. Larrieu); (5) "Sharing Child Development Expertise in Court: Respect, Rules and Roles" (Martha Grace, Cindy S. Lederman, and Joy D. Osofsky); (6) "Building a Pathway of Well-Being: The Story of the 'Healthy Development Checklist for Children in Foster Care'" (Sheryl Dicker and Elysa Gordon); (7) "Providing Mental Health Services to Young Children in Foster Care: A Family-by Family, Moment-by-Moment Approach to Change" (Elaine Groppenbacher, Cynthia Hoard, and Sandie Miller); (8) "Working toward Relationship-Based Child Welfare Practice: The SEED Model after 5 Years" (Kathryn Orfirer and Diana Kronstadt); (9) "The Accidental Advocate: Moving from Individual Case Advocacy to System Change" (Judith A. Silver); (10) "Play and Learn at Our Place" (Randy Lee Comfort); and (11) "Intervening with Young Children in Foster Care: Using Countertransference Reactions to Facilitate the Therapeutic Process" (Theresa Jacobsen). Regular departments of the bulletin list Zero to Three publications, videotapes, and on-line resources, and announcements about Zero to Three staff.(HTH)

"Zero to Three" is a single-focus bulletin of the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families providing insight from multiple disciplines on the development of infants, toddlers, and their families. Noting that during the earliest years of life, much of children's learning about themselves and the world around them occurs in connection with daily routines, this issue focuses on the complex and subtle social interactions that occur during daily routines and rituals. The featured articles include the following: (1) "Fresh Perspectives on Young Children and Family Routines" (Lorraine F. Kubicek); (2) "Routines of Daily Living and Rituals in Family Life: A Glimpse at Stability and Change during the Early Child-Raising Years" (Barbara H. Fiese); (3) "How Mothers in Four American Cultural Groups Shape Infant Learning during Mealtimes" (Mary Martini); (4) "What's for Dinner? Family Functioning, Maternal Depression, and Early Childhood Outcomes" (Susan Dickstein and Sarah Martin); (5) "Child Care Is Rich in Routines" (Perry M. Butterfield); and (6) "Bridges to Literacy: Early Routines that Promote Later School Success" (Sharon Rosenkoetter and Lauren R. Barton).Regular departments of the bulletin list Zero to Three publications, videotapes, and on-line resources, and announcements about Zero to Three staff. (HTH)

"Zero to Three" is a single-focus bulletin of the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families providing insight from multiple disciplines on the development of infants, toddlers, and their families. Responding to family needs in the wake of September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, this issue focuses on infants, toddlers, and terror. Articles contributed by "Zero to Three" board members, staff, and long-term supporters in the philanthropic community document responses to needs of the infants/family field. Articles include the following: (1) "A Long Walk Together: Children's World Learning CenterPentagon" (Jean M. Thomas); (2) "Observations of Acute Reactions of Young Children and Their Families to the World Trade Center Attacks" (Daniel S. Schechter, Susan W. Coates, and Elsa First); (3) "The Babies Push Us To Be Strong and Stay Loving" (Sandy Wolkoff); (4) "Supporting Parents, Helping Children: Some Questions and Principles" (Albert J. Solnit); (5) "Helping Young Children and Families Cope with Trauma in a New Era" (Joy D. Osofsky); (6) "Protecting Our Children" (Jeree Pawl); (7) Using Relationships To Promote Healing for Staff, Parents, and Children" (Nancy L. Seibel and Rebecca Parklakian); (8) "ZERO TO THREE's Cornerstones Project: A Safe Haven for Washington, D.C.'s Infant/Family Program Leaders" (Elizabeth A. Ford); (9) "Communications Challenges and a New Reality in the Aftermath of September 11th" (Lynette A. Ciervo and Thomas E. Salyers); and (10) "A Challenge for Foundations" (Betty Bardige and Marilyn Segal). The final section of this issue, titled"Voices from the Infant/Family Community," recounts observations from "Zero to Three" readers as events of September 11 affected the children and families they serve. (HTH)

"Zero to Three" is a single-focus bulletin of the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families providing insight from multiple disciplines on the development of infants, toddlers, and their families. Noting that America's babies and toddlers live in a world full of television sets, VCRs, computers, videogames, and interactive toys, this issue focuses on babies, toddlers, and the media, addressing the impact of media experiences on young children's development. The articles are as follows: (1) "Electronic Childhood: The Availability and Use of Household Media by 2-to 3-Year-Olds" (Amy B. Jordan and Emory H. Woodard IV); (2) "Peril and Potential of Media for Infants and Toddlers" (Daniel R. Anderson, and Marie K. Evans); (3) "Infants, Toddlers, and Television: The Ecology of the Home" (Kelly M. Schmitt); (4) "The Truth about 'Teletubbies'" (Susan Linn and Alvin F. Puissaint); (5) "Computers, TV, and Very Young Children: What Impact on Development?" (Claire Lerner, Dorothy G. Singer, and Ellen Wartella); (6) "Toddlers and Computers: A Father's Wary Eye" (Kyle Pruett); and (7) "It's about Time! Computers as Assistive Technology for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities" (Mary Wilds). Regular departments of the bulletin list Zero to Three publications, videotapes, and on-line resources, and announcements about Zero to Three staff. (HTH)

"Zero to Three" is a single-focus bulletin of the National Center for Infants, Toddlers, and Families providing insight from multiple disciplines on the development of infants, toddlers, and their families. An outgrowth of the Head Start Forum on Infant Mental Health, this issue focuses on infant mental health and implications for Early Head Start programs. The articles are as follows: (1) "A Commitment to Supporting the Mental Health of Our Youngest Children" (Rachel Chazan-Cohen, Judith Jerald, and Deborah Roderick Stark); (2) "Towards a Definition of Infant Mental Health" (Charles H. Zeanah, Jr., and Paula Doyle Zeanah); (3) "A Developmental Psychiatrist Looks at Infant Mental Health Challenges for Early Head Start: Understanding Context and Overcoming Avoidance" (Robert N. Emde); (4) "Fathers as Facilitators of Infant Mental Health: Implications for Early Head Start" (Hiram E. Fitzgerald and Marcel Montanez); (5) "The Sociocultural Context of Infant Mental Health in African American Families" (Suzanne M. Randolph and Sally A. Koblinsky); (6) "Is Mom's Mind on Her Baby? Infant Mental Health in Early Head Start" (JoAnne E. Solchany and Kathryn E. Barnard); (7) "Mothers, Babies, and Depression: Questions and Answers" (Roseanne Clark and Emily Fenichel); (8) "Relationships for Learning: Early Head Start Infant Mental Health in Jackson, Michigan" (Deborah J. Weatherston); (9) "Infant Mental Health at Hope Street Is Everybody's Business" (Cecilia Samartin and others) [in English and Spanish]; and (10) "Organizational Environments that Support Mental Health" (Robert N. Emde, Judith Bertacchi, and Tammy L. Mann). Regular departments of the bulletin list Zero to Three publications, videotapes, and on-line resources, and announcements about Zero to Three staff. (HTH)

This theme issue explores the development of memory and creativity in very young children. The first article, "The Guy Who Went Up the Steep Nicken: The Emergence of Story Telling during the First Three Years" (Susan Engel), describes the developmental stages of children's story telling. The reasons children tell stories and strategies for encouraging story telling are provided. "Shrinking Trolls and Expanding Minds: How Very Young Children Learn To Understand and Use Symbols" (Judy DeLoache) discusses research which indicates that children only gradually appreciate that entities should be responded to as representations of something other than themselves. A conceptual model of young children's understanding and use of symbols is presented. In "Children's Memory for Personal Experience: Individual and Cultural Variations in Development" (Katherine Nelson and others), different kinds of memory are described as well as the impact of talking about an experience on memory. The influences of parenting style and cultural factors on children's retention of memories are also explored. "Pain and Creativity: The Complex Interplay" (Barbara Young) investigates the role that suffering plays in creativity in early childhood. Spontaneous or natural creativity in young children is described in "Creativity in the Youngest" (Lois Barclay Murphy). (Individual articles contain references.) (CR)

The five articles in this newsletter theme issue focus on the development of socioemotional and communication skills in infants and toddlers through the Partners in Parenting Education (PIPE) program. The first article, "The Partners in Parenting Education Program: A New Option in Parent Education" (Perry M. Butterfield), describes the program's approach, curriculum, evaluation, dissemination, and limitations. The second article, "Thinking about Intervention and Improving Socio-Emotional Development: A Clinical Perspective and Recent Trends in Policy and Knowledge" (Robert N. Emde), discusses prevention, the Early Head Start program (for children 0-3) and early socioemotional development as a foundation for learning and morality, and the role of PIPE. Next, in "Developing a Sense of Self and Others," Sandra Pipp-Siegel and Leah Pressman discuss procedural and declarative knowledge, the emerging sense of self and normal self-development, and the PIPE curriculum for infants from 2 months to 21 months of age. Next, Lorraine F. Kubicek, in "Helping Young Children Become Competent Communicators: The Role of Relationships," reviews early emotion-based exchanges, stresses the importance of caregiver input in the language-learning environment, and shows how PIPE encourages language development. The last paper, "Supporting Emotion Regulation and Emotional Availability through Home Visitation" (JoAnn L. Robinson and Laura Glaves), explores the mutual regulatory process, how home visitors can support emotion regulation, and the integration of PIPE and the Home Visitation 2000 program. (Individual articles contain references.) (DB)

This theme issue offers a collection of articles focusing on support groups for parents of infants and toddlers, including the following: (1) "Gaining Perspective on Parenting Groups" (Nick Carter and Cathie Harvey) which reviews the purposes, history, and essential ingredients of such groups; (2) "The MELD Experience with Parent Groups" (Joyce Hoelting and others) which describes the Minnesota Early Learning Design group-based parenting education program; (3) "Revisiting Parenting Groups: A Psychosocial Approach" (Barbara Frazier and others) which describes implementation of a new parent education model in Florida's Child Abuse Prevention Project; (4) "Family Support While You Wait: Lessons from the Detroit Family Project" (Susan Whitelaw Downs and Donna Walker) which describes a program providing casual parent education services in clinic waiting rooms; (5) "Getting a Shot at Life through Group Action Planning" (Ann P. Turnbull and others) which describes a family support model including characteristics of both individualized team planning and support groups; and (6) "Beyond the Pizza Dinner: Natural Alternatives to Parent Support Groups" (Tracy Price-Johnson and Lucy Miller) which describes an effort to create opportunities for informal relationships among parents of typically developing children and children with disabilities. Also included are a list of 45 Zero to Three articles on parenting groups and descriptions of seven recent books and two videotapes. (Individual articles contain references.) (CR)

The six articles in this newsletter theme issue focus on three successful infant/family organizations serving families with young children either at risk for a disability or having a disability: Southwest Human Development (Phoenix, Arizona); The Ounce of Prevention Fund (Chicago, Illinois); and New Horizons Center for Children and Families of Macon County (North Carolina). In the first article, "Relationship-Based Organizations," Judith Bertacchi describes a model of organizational design which stresses relationships as the basis of the organization's work, and outlines principles of relationship-based work such as mutuality of shared goals and commitment to evolving growth. "Lessons Leaders Learn" presents the transcript of an interview with Ginger Mach-Ward and Harriet Meyer, the executive directors of two of the organizations, as they discuss the development and evolution of their organizations. "Reflective Supervision as a Vehicle for Individual and Organizational Development" (Trudi Norman-Murch) examines five key concepts of reflective supervision. In "Comprehensive Programs=Comprehensive Balancing Acts," Jan Martner reviews the experience of Southwest Human Development, stressing the difficulties of achieving a balance among many program demands and components. The fifth article, by Portia Kennel, is "Working with the Written-Off: Building Relationships in Grand Boulevard." This article examines the difficulties and successes of building a relationship-based program in an inner city setting. The last article, "A Dream Is a Work in Progress: Providing Integrated Services to Parents and Children in Rural North Carolina," by Lois Sexton and Barbara McRae, describes activities of the New Horizons Center program. Also provided in the newsletter are reviews of four videotapes and six publications. (DB)

This newsletter issue contains 10 articles focusing on failture to thrive and the feeding of infants and toddlers with disabilities. Articles have the following titles and authors: "The Feeding Relationship" (Ellyn Satter); "Cultural Dimensions of Feeding Relationships" (Carol Brunson Phillips and Renatta M. Cooper); "Eating Well While Reading Well: Communicating Useful Nutrition Information" (Marjorie Scharf and Laurie Miller); "A Feeding Problem" (Sally Provence); "Pediatric Nutrition Practice Group: Promoting Child Health Through Optimal Nutritional Care" (Susan Krug-Wispe); "Should the Field of Early Child and Family Intervention Address Failure to Thrive?" (Peter Dawson); "Communication Strategies for Working with Parents of Infants Who Fail To Thrive" (Lynne Sturm and Dennis Drotar); "Early Start: Nutrition Services in Early Intervention in Massachusetts" (Cynthia Taft Bayerl and Jacque D. Ries); "Working Together for Breastfeeding Success" (Vergie Hughes); and "The 'Nursing-Working Dilemma': How Health professionals Can Make a Difference." Reviews of 11 related publications are also included. (DB)

Eighteen work group papers, several of which previously appeared in "Zero to Three," the Bulletin of the National Center for Infant Clinical Progams, are presented under four headings. Under the heading "Findings and Recommendations of ZERO TO THREE/National center for Clinical Infant Programs' Work Group on Supervision and Mentorship" are the following papers: (1) "Learning through Supervision and Mentorship To Support the Development of Infants, Toddlers and Their Families"; (2) "Overcoming Obstacles to Reflective Supervision and Mentorship"; (3) "Improving Training of Infant/Family Practitioners through Supervision and Mentorship: An Action Agenda". Under the heading "Supervision and Mentorship of Students" are: (4) "The Supervisory Relationship: Integrator, Resource and Guide" (R. S. Shanok); (5) "Individualizing Training for Early Intervention Practitioners" (C. W. Brown and E. K. Thorp); (6) "Passing on the Process: Reflections of a Supervisee and a Supervisor" (K. Bateman and E. K. Thorp); (7) "Scenes from Supervision" (J. Pekarsky); (8) "A Review of Infant/Toddler Issues in Supervision and Mentorship Based on Instruction of the Mentor Teacher Class" (J. Perry); (9) "A Clinical Approach to the Training of Supervisors: The Model of Co-Supervision" (K. D. Pruett). Under the heaing "Supervision and Mentorship of Infant/Family Practitioners" are: (10) "The Professionalization of Early Motherhood" (W. M. Schafer); (11) "Supervision as a Catalyst in the Evolution of an Integrated Infant Mental Health/Developmental Intervention Program" (B. Ivins and N. Sweet); (12) "The Professional Use of Self in Prevention" (J. Bertacchi and J. Coplon); (13) "Lay Home Visiting Programs: Strengths, Tensions, and Challenges" (M. Larner and R. Halpern); (14) "A Developmental/Relationship In-Service Training Model for Public Health Nurses Serving Multirisk Infants and Families" (S. Wieder, R. Drachman, and T. DeLeo). Under the heading "Issues for Supervisors and Program Directors" are: (15) "Supervision and the Management of Programs Serving Infants, Toddlers, and Their Families" (L. Gilkerson and C. L. Young-Holt); (16) "Management in the South Carolina Resource Mothers' Program: The Importance of Supervision" (M. A. Robinson); (17) "Toward Tenacity of Commitment: Understanding and Modifying Institutional Practices and Individual Responses that Impede Work with Multi-Problem Families" (B. Fields); and (18) "A Seminar for Supervisors in Infant/Family Programs: Growing versus Paying More for Staying the Same" (J. Bertacchi and F. M. Stott). Appendixes include a qualitative study of early intervention in Maryland and a 50-item bibliography. (SLD)