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Women Who Care: Volunteer Careers for Homemakers
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Wenck, Dorothy – Journal of Home Economics, 1974
Three hundred volunteers have participated in nine training courses, eight weeks each, in a California Cooperative Extension Program for volunteers who are able to teach consumer homemaking information to families with limited resources. (AJ)
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Economically Disadvantaged, Extension Education, Home Economics
Consumer Education for Low-Income Families
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McKenna, Constance; Scherer, Jane A. – Journal of Home Economics, 1978
Describes the Consumer and Homemaking Education Program (CHEP) designed by the Illinois Cooperative Extension Service to help low-income families improve their use and management of available family resources. Description of the program includes program delivery, program assistants, teaching materials, and recent program innovations. (TA)
Descriptors: Community Information Services, Community Services, Consumer Education, Extension Education