Prodigy is an example of a program that is successful due to its being a program that is community engaged. Prodigy is a community arts program, crime prevention and diversion program, serving ten thousand people in seven counties. This article discusses the roles, challenges, and successes of the partnerships with the School of Social Work at the…

Objectives: This teaching idea is designed to increase students' understanding about the principles of a Coordinated School Health Program and apply these principles as they plan a community health program. As students work through the planning process, they will address many of the AAHPERD/AAHE Standards for Health Education Programs. Target…

Planning guidelines for community resource centers (CRCs) are introduced by an overview of current thought and existing programs in education, information, library, communication, and social services. Criteria for locating and housing a CRC are discussed. User diagrams, space diagrams, and performance guidelines are provided for ten services which…

Schools are finding it increasingly difficult to successfully meet the diverse needs of all students at risk of school failure. Changes in demographics and the nature of children's needs call for reaching beyond the school's boundaries and mobilizing a broad array of resources in the larger community. This document extends work on the coordination…

Suggestions designed to help communities attain the fifth National Education Goal are offered in this document. The goal states that by the year 2000, every adult American will be literate and will possess the knowledge and skills necessary to compete in a global economy and exercise the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Seven principles…

This report presents rankings of major program areas and subareas of concern to African Americans based on responses to a questionnaire completed in February 1989 by local chapters of the National Urban League. The local chapters rank the areas according to needs in their community and priority for the Urban League Movement. This information is…

This booklet provides representative examples of approaches that 36 Chambers of Commerce across the nation have taken to problems of employment in their locales. Their experiences have been selected to illustrate the various means used by businessmen to work cooperatively with others toward the solution of local problems related to school,…

This manual was designed primarily for use by coordinators responsible for developing comprehensive community youth opportunity programs of employment, education, and recreation, but the material may also be of assistance to community and business leaders, educators, and others involved in expanding local opportunities for young people. Contents…

This is the first of four reports in The Urban Community College Project Series. The report is based on the evaluation of Peralta College's Inner City Project through eight broad questions concerning the project's effectiveness as an agent of change. Most of the questions deal with outcomes that, it was initially hoped, would result from the…

Research foundations and problems for counseling in the community are discussed. Research implications are outlined around Sarason's three challenges to community health; (1) extending therapeutic outreach, (2) studying those situations, settings, or forces in the community that set the stage for problems; and (3) efforts toward prevention.…

This paper describes the beliefs and values of a pluralistic approach to social change and of four competing approaches: social Darwinism, functionalism, militancy, and conflict theory. Stressing the alienation and dogmatism of the competing approaches, the authors relate each approach to its operation in community action projects. Social…

This manual describes a variety of approaches a college or university can take to support student volunteers. It summarizes 6 models of volunteer programs currently in use on campuses and describes in detail a seventh "comprehensive" model that allows the school to assist and give general direction but permits students freedom to run their own…