Describes a summer job placement program which recruits, trains, and counsels minority youth with the goal of helping them find and maintain meaningful employment. (PCB)

Describes the experiences provided for disadvantaged children aged 4-14 years through an enrichment program, begun in 1973, which aims to foster feelings of closeness and love in a rural setting. Groups of 20 children are bused to a farm each day for two one-week periods during the summer. (ED)

In New York City, the Educational Alliance, a settlement house, provides comprehensive, coordinated educational-mental health care through its special unit for young children. Services range from a day care center, a multiethnic, trilingual Head Start program, to after-school, summer school, and day camp programs. (Author/CS)