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Download full textDepartment of Education, Washington, DC. – 1992
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…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Community Action, Community Planning
Arnow, Pat, Ed. – Now and Then, 1988
This journal theme issue focuses on Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty in Appalachia, launched in 1964. Articles discuss the War on Poverty, the people involved, how it succeeded, and how it ultimately failed. One article examines the role of the Council of the Southern Mountains, established in 1913. Federal officials used the council's reputation…
Descriptors: Appalachian Studies, Community Action, Community Programs, Federal Programs
Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Washington, DC. – 1964
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,…
Descriptors: Annotated Bibliographies, Business, Community Action, Community Organizations
Moynihan, Daniel P. – 1969
In reviewing the attempts to conduct Federal antipoverty programs with "maximum feasible participation" by residents of the communities involved, Daniel Moynihan describes the origin of this provision in sociological theory, then discusses the nature and the internal contradictions of the great national effort at social change conceived under the…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Programs, Evaluation, Federal Programs
Hofstetter, Heather N.; Hofstetter, Merlin I. – 1973
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…
Descriptors: Activism, Community Action, Community Influence, Community Programs
Peer reviewedSenn, Charles L.; Rojanapremsuk, Jirasak – Journal of Environmental Health, 1976
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Health Services, Community Programs, Entomology
Punke, Harold H. – Agricultural Education Magazine, 1973
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Development, Community Problems, Community Programs
Peer reviewedGreist, Ellen W.; Markesbery, Barbara A. – Journal of Nutrition Education, 1979
Reports on a media effort aimed at encouraging the public to eat more whole grains. Activities of the First Annual Day of Bread Whole-Grain Breadbaking Contest are described. (SA)
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Attitudes, Community Programs, Dietetics
New Breast, Theda – Winds of Change, 1990
Outlines a community action process that American Indian communities could use to develop their own drug and alcohol abuse prevention programs. Describes a community prevention system framework developed by the Office of Substance Abuse Prevention. Compares the community empowerment system with the agency-directed service delivery model. (SV)
Descriptors: American Indians, Community Action, Community Change, Community Cooperation
Kazzi, John W. – Small Town, 1990
Describes four successful community programs dealing with waste management issues, developed with assistance from Keep America Beautiful System: litter prevention (Beatrice, Nebraska); composting yard waste (Centralia, Illinois); recycling (Lake Jackson, Texas); and waste-to-energy incineration (Gastonia, North Carolina). Notes related education…
Descriptors: Alternative Energy Sources, Community Action, Community Problems, Community Programs
Harrison-Burns, Bettye; And Others – 1981
This guide focuses on developing effective strategies for multicultural drug abuse prevention programs. The guide is designed to provide information that can assist minority communities in setting up drug abuse prevention programs in their neighborhoods. It discusses a holistic framework for empowering client populations and outlines four program…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Action, Community Programs, Drug Abuse
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
ESSER, GEORGE H., JR. – 1964
AN EXPERIMENT WAS CONDUCTED IN MOBILIZING COLLEGE STUDENTS FOR SUMMER ASSISTANCE IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY PROGRAMS. APPROXIMATELY 100 STUDENT VOLUNTEERS WERE CHOSEN TO PARTICIPATE ON THE BASES OF THEIR STABILITY, MATURITY, ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE, AND DEDICATION. THEY WERE PLACED IN SIX AREAS WHERE COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Programs, Community Recreation Programs, Community Services
Schmidt, Rebecca – Educational Comment, 1976
This article discusses the characteristics of families who abuse their children and describes a program for organizing community agencies to help diagnose, treat, and prevent child abuse. Available from: PS 504 969. (JMB)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Community Action, Community Organizations
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
