ABSTRACT
Appraisal of children and of their environment with tailored translation of the findings into programs will require training or retraining, of workers on various levels. For one, training needs to be developed for professional workers involved with children and their sub professional assistants to enable them to identify individual differences in babies and young children and determine what each needs in order to develop optimally. Beginning with family planning and prenatal care, the child and parent center would provide a continuum of nurturing and preventive approaches. The health services would combine with welfare to deal with the problem of adequate child and parent nutrition, beginning with the earliest possible prenatal phase. Continuity of care, long an ideal, would become an essential part of the total picture. As part of comprehensive child and family services, all children on the risk register would be periodically re-evaluated throughout the school years.
