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Aceves, Aurelia De La Rosa; Greenberg, David M.; Schell, Sarah – MDRC, 2016
This brief is the third in a series documenting the implementation of an economic mobility initiative supported by New York City's Change Capital Fund (CCF). CCF is a consortium of New York City donors formed to invest in local nonprofits that undertake data-driven antipoverty strategies integrating housing, education, and employment services. CCF…
Descriptors: Community Services, Poverty Programs, Nonprofit Organizations, Integrated Activities
Boles, Janet K. – 1989
Those studying the distribution of urban services have generally concluded that services are distributed according to bureaucratic decision rules based on professional and bureaucratic norms such as need, efficiency, economy, equity, and convenience. Interest groups and elected officials may play a central role in effecting changes in bureaucratic…
Descriptors: Bureaucracy, Change Agents, Community Services, Females
Chicago City Colleges, IL. Chicago City-Wide Inst. – 1976
This report was prepared in conjunction with the application for accreditation status of the Chicago City-Wide Institute (CCWI) as a unit of the City Colleges of Chicago System. CCWI is an innovative, non-traditional, community-service oriented college, operating as a college without walls in cooperation with other units of the Chicago system. Its…
Descriptors: Adult Education, College Administration, Community Colleges, Community Services
Harrington, Diane; Schine, Joan – 1989
This survey explores community service programs involving early adolescents. School-based programs are emphasized. The following programs were selected as models of appropriate service learning and are described in detail: (1) Friendly PEERsuasion, a peer tutoring program in Arlington (Texas); (2) The Peer Counseling Program in Oakland…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Services, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools
Cruse, Daniel; Rubin, Jesse – 1973
Presented in summary fashion, this pilot research project, conducted under the auspices of the Miami, Florida Police Department, was an outgrowth of the dual problems of deteriorating police-citizen relationships and escalating societal violence during recent years. The lack of empirical data on police behavior led to the project, limited in scope…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Behavior Problems, Career Guidance, Community Problems
Powers, Michael D. – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 1986
Program design, implementation, and public policy issues are discussed for five urban community-based programs for the developmentally disabled: (1) direct services in intermediate care facilities; (2) a High Risk Infant project; (3) group home consultative services; (4) training for support services to adoptive families; (5) a national…
Descriptors: Adoption, Agency Cooperation, Community Services, Consultation Programs