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Download full textBurnaby, Barbara Jane, Ed.; Reyhner, Jon Allan, Ed. – 2002
Conference papers examine efforts by Indigenous communities, particularly Native American communities, to maintain and revitalize their languages. The 27 papers are: "Ko te reo te mauri o te mana Maori: The Language Is the Life Essence of Maori Existence" (Te Tuhi Robust); "The Preservation and Use of Our Languages: Respecting the…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, Bilingual Education, Community Action
Harris, Carol E. – 1998
This biography profiles the late Elizabeth (Betty) Murray, an educator and community leader from Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia (Canada). Chapter 1 looks at Murray's leadership skills as, at age 77, she prepared and directed her annual musical in which the people of Tatamagouche recreate a significant moment in their village history. Chapter 2 moves…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Biographies, Community Action, Community Leaders
Engel, C., Ed.; And Others – 1990
This volume comprises 95 papers or abstracts of conference presentations, focusing on various community-based approaches to health sciences education throughout the world. The papers or presentation abstracts are arranged under the following headings: (1) problems met in establishing links with the regional health care systems--the case of…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Action, Community Health Services, Community Programs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Human Resources. – 1979
Proceedings are presented of hearings before the Senate Subcommittee on Child and Human Development concerning proposed legislation (S. 239 and S. 374) to revise, improve, and extend certain provisions of the Domestic Volunteer Service Act. Testimony from administrators of current programs under the act and from public witnesses focuses on the…
Descriptors: Activities, Agencies, Agency Role, Budgets
Peer reviewedOsterling, Jorge P. – Bilingual Research Journal, 2001
A family literacy program for Salvadoran refugees and other Latinos in Arlington (Virginia) is analyzed from a sociocultural perspective as exemplifying an educational project designed and implemented by grassroots organizations in an increasingly diverse, multicultural/multilingual community. The program addresses the educational needs of poor…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Case Studies, Community Action, Community Programs
Bailis, Lawrence Neil – 1984
This paper summarizes the results of a National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC) survey of community-based organizations (CBOs) about the effects of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA). Findings are summarized in these areas: (1) changes in funding for training disadvantaged youth, (2) changes in service to youth, (3) the role of CBOs in the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Role, Community Action, Community Cooperation
TRAINING PROGRAM OF COMMUNITY AIDES FOR ADULT EDUCATION IN ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY. EVALUATION REPORT.
TURNER, LA FAYETTE – 1966
IN ELIZABETH, NEW JERSEY, WHERE THE SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED LIVE IN HIGH DENSITY HOUSING, SCIENTIFIC RESOURCES INCORPORATED RECRUITED AND TRAINED EIGHT INDIGENOUS PEOPLE TO SERVE AS ADULT EDUCATIONAL AIDES IN A 6-MONTH PROJECT DESIGNED FOR THE NEW JERSEY COMMUNITY ACTION TRAINING INSTITUTE. SIX AIDES, AGED FROM 18 TO 48 WITH NINTH-GRADE TO COLLEGE…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Programs, Creative Activities, Creative Dramatics
Grosser, Charles F. – 1968
The report describes six projects supported by the Office of Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Development and employing community action to combat juvenile delinquency: the Mobilization for Youth on New York City's lower East Side; the Syracuse Crusade for Opportunity in Syracuse, New York; the United Planning Organization, Washington, D.C.; Houston…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Coordination, Community Development, Community Organizations
Strategy Alert, 1992
How community-based groups are confronting and preventing alcohol and other drug problems and related crime in their communities is the focus of this publication. A wide range of approaches and strategies, used by 10 nonprofit, community-based organizations representative of urban and rural areas, are presented. Case studies describe two community…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Alcohol Abuse, Case Studies, Community Action
Jones, G. Brian; And Others – 1983
This monograph was written to motivate and provide initial orientation for community leaders who are committed to seeing that comprehensive career guidance programs are established to serve the career planning and development needs of all citizens. The monograph is divided into two parts. Part A, containing four chapters, gives suggestions for how…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Career Development, Career Guidance, Career Planning
Herbst, Laura – 1995
In today's wars, children are on the front lines. This handbook, the result of a meeting of psychologists and humanitarian workers, presents a strategy to meet the needs of children in war and refugee crises that intends to be cost-effective, empowering, and child-focused. The strategy emerged from field work based on the belief that each…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Community Action, Community Control
de Clerck, Marcel – 1990
An operational seminar is an in-the-field demonstration for those involved in the process of change that all community development projects require. It does not require previous theoretical exposure of any kind. On the basis of the analysis of a specific milieu, the seminar participants put together a program of activities, choosing appropriate…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Change Agents, Community Action
Rudick, Lois, Comp. – 1979
This publication presents profiles of the 29 councils currently participating in the Work-Education Consortium. (These councils address the issue of youth's transition from education to employment and work in a collaborative manner involving community people representing education, business and industry, government, social services, labor,…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Action, Community Cooperation, Community Coordination
Brown, Larry – 1984
The advent of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) has not been favorable to community-based organizations (CBOs) serving unemployed young people. The overall decline in the amount of money available for employment training is one reason for the reduction in services, but it is not the sole reason. The transition to the new act itself is also…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agency Role, Community Action, Community Cooperation
Arizona State Ecomonic Opportunity Office, Phoenix. – 1970
Presented is the 4th annual report of the Arizona State Economic Opportunity Office. The purpose of the report is to provide interested agencies, public officials, and the general public an overview of Office of Economic Opportunity programs operating in the State of Arizona. The report gives brief descriptions and purposes of the various…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Alcoholism, American Indians, Annual Reports
