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Science and Success: Sex Education and Other Programs That Work to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, HIV, and Sexually Transmitted Infections. Third Edition. Executive Summary
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Alford, Sue – Advocates for Youth, 2012
Teen pregnancy in the United States has declined significantly in the last two decades. Despite these declines, rates of teen birth, HIV, and STIs in the United States remain among the highest of any industrialized nation. Socio-economic, cultural and structural factors such as poverty, limited access to health care, racism and unemployment…
Descriptors: Sexuality, Sex Education, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Language Renewal and Language Maintenance: A Practical Guide.
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Brandt, Elizabeth A.; Ayoungman, Vivian – Canadian Journal of Native Education, 1989
Reviews critical factors in successful language transmission and acquisition, factors responsible for language maintenance and renewal. Considers theoretical issues underlying communities' maintenance and renewal efforts and the reflection of those issues in practical goal-setting plans that outline desired plans that outline language maintenance…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Planning, Community Programs, Foreign Countries
Preparation of Professionals and Career Development for the Disabled. Section V.
Sanders, Charles D.; And Others – 1986
This document contains five papers about resources, support systems, and advocacy presented at a national conference about the nonwhite disabled. The papers and authors are: (1) "A College-Based Rehabilitation Training Program for Working with the Nonwhite Disabled" (C. D. Sanders)--program components include attention to sensitivity training,…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Blacks, Community Colleges, Community Resources
Women in Jail: Problems, Programs and Resources.
Roy, Marjorie Brown – 1979
This manual is designed to assist those individuals or groups responsible for developing educational and vocational programs for women in jail. The first section identifies the needs and problems of women in jail, focussing on discrimination against poor women unable to afford bail, the nonviolent nature of women's crimes, and the inequity of jail…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Citizen Participation, Community Involvement, Correctional Education
CTIC Cablebooks. Volume 2: A Guide for Local Policy.
Jesuale, Nancy, Ed.; And Others – 1982
The second in a two-part series, this volume presents 13 chapters discussing many of the most pressing cable policy issues facing local government, describing alternative policy options, and suggesting regulatory procedures successfully used by decision makers in the United States. Topics covered are (1) "The Rationale for Regulation,"…
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Cable Television, Case Studies, Community Programs
Project MAVE - Model for Articulated Vocational Education. Final Report.
Vanek, Carol – 1979
Based on the need to strengthen articulation activities within the Illinois educational system, this project was designed to provide a formal articulation mechanism utilizing the concept of institutional coordination for the development of comprehensive vocational programs and services. Phase 1 of the project developed an articulation process…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Articulation (Education), Community Colleges, Cooperation
The Importance of Research on Transferable Skills to Female Mid-Life Career Changers.
Eliason, N. Carol – 1979
Research findings at the National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE) document the practicality of a systems approach to transfer of skills from other realms to the world of the vocational training classroom and directly to the world of work. One of the targeted approaches specifically concerned with upgrading the status of women…
Descriptors: Career Change, Career Choice, Career Counseling, Career Exploration