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Vocational Guidance Quarterly, 1979
This position paper on quality career guidance programs outlines basic assumptions, guidelines, a comprehensive program development model, and recommended uses. Highlights of the program development model include management questions, information, and program standards. This represents NVGA/AVA Guidance Divisions efforts to establish standards for…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Career Education, Career Guidance, Counselors
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Purvis, J. R.; And Others – Psychology in the Schools, 1991
Describes steps in establishing crisis intervention team in schools: determining goals, performing needs assessment, finding model programs, developing membership pool, developing training program, preparing and maintaining list of resources and plans for support services, establishing communication network, designating base of operations,…
Descriptors: Crisis Intervention, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Development, Program Implementation
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Fountain, Cheryl; Soldwedel, Bette J. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 1992
Describes five steps in establishing standards for equity programs: (1) specify affirmative action-equal opportunity objectives; (2) think through expected outcomes; (3) validate priority statements and expected outcomes; (4) specify categories within institution to be affected by standards; and (5) review priorities and objectives that guided…
Descriptors: Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Models, Policy Formation
Croan, Gerald M.; Lees, Joan F. – 1979
Coalitions of service providers are playing increasingly large roles in developing policies and programs affecting youth. Community coalitions are cost-effective, efficient ways to expand services and to increase the capacity of the community to plan and program for young people. This manual provides a basis for examination of the coalition…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Resources, Community Services, Information Networks
Illinois Univ., Urbana. – 1979
This citizen's guide is designed to provide suggestions to those individuals or groups concerned with the removal of children from adult jails. The guide presents an overview of the problem, a list of actions which can be taken by an informed and active citizenry, including: (1) monitoring and publicizing admissions practices and living conditions…
Descriptors: Children, Citizen Participation, Community Action, Community Programs
Allegheny Conference on Community Development, Pittsburgh, PA. – 1984
This handbook is intended to help communities (particularly, but not exclusively, in Pennsylvania) develop adopt-a-school partnerships between local schools and businesses. Advantages of partnerships for both schools and their potential business partner are reviewed, and brief profiles of possible cooperative projects (many of which have already…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Program Development, Program Implementation
Illinois Univ., Urbana. – 1979
This planning guide is designed to assist those individuals or groups concerned with the removal of children from adult jails, and is intended to provide a methodology for needs assessment and implementation of a flexible network of alternatives at the local community level. The guide includes an overview of the problem and a narrative description…
Descriptors: Children, Citizen Participation, Community Action, Community Programs
Boo, Mary Richardson; Decker, Larry E. – 1985
This guide to community education offers strategies and suggestions for responding to the call for more community involvement in partnership efforts that will benefit education and society. First, a brief introduction summarizes the philosophy of community education, defining it as a belief that learning is lifelong and that self-help efforts…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Strategies, Community Education, Educational Finance
Fritsch, Helmut; And Others – Research in Distance Education, 1989
The authors present reports of current research on distance education at the FernUniversitat in West Germany. Fritsch discusses adapting distance education techniques for small classes. Kuffner describes procedures for providing feedback to students using personalized computer-generated letters. Klute discusses using a computer with tutorial…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Computer Assisted Instruction, Course Evaluation, Distance Education
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, Morges, (Switzerland). – 1982
Recommendations of the World National Parks Congress, which met in Bali, Indonesia, are provided in this document. These recommendations address issues related to: information on protected areas; global system of representative terrestrial protected areas; marine and coastal protected areas; Antarctica; the role of protected areas in sustainable…
Descriptors: Conferences, Conservation (Environment), Environmental Education, Environmental Standards
Dickinson, Joyce; And Others – 1979
This handbook is designed to assist counselors in developing a comprehensive guidance program and is based on the assumption that guidance programs should be an integral part of the total educational system, tailor-made to meet the specific goals and needs of all students. Components include: (1) the role of the counselor; (2) certification and…
Descriptors: Career Education, Class Activities, Comprehensive Guidance, Counselor Role
Eismann, Edward P. – 1982
The Unitas Therapeutic Community is a mental health treatment and prevention program for Hispanic and Black children and teenagers in the South Bronx, New York City. Based on theories of therapeutic community and social psychology, Unitas stresses psychological methodologies that cultivate the healing potential present in all interpersonal…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community Involvement, Helping Relationship, Hispanic Americans