The Florida Bureau of Employment Service within the Florida Department of Commerce has developed and implemented a competency-based counselor training model which includes supervisory competencies. This article is limited to a discussion of the basic components of the supervisory portion of the model and the presentation of an actual case. (Author)

Described is Project APSE (Action Planning in Special Education), an alternative approach to special education teacher training in which graduate students plan a diagnostic and remedial program for children referred with possible learning disabilities within the school setting. (CL)

The automatic interaction detector was applied as an evaluation tool to data normally collected by vocational-rehabilitation agencies. Demographic, service, and local agency variables were analyzed with mean weekly income at time of closure as the dependent variable. Recommendations for further research were made. (Author)

This article describes the Training in Community Living Program, a new approach to chronic care in Wisconsin, which eliminates hospitalization and which teaches patients the coping skills necessary to live in the community. (Author/AM)

It is time to institutionalize the Peace Corps in much the same way that the ROTC programs have become a permanent educational fixture in American life. High school graduates would compete for scholarships and would be sworn in for 4 years in the Peace Corps after college graduation. (MLW)

Three programs that have been successful in facilitating the reenrollment of students from exiting juvenile detention facilities are described: the Lake County, IL, Youth Advocate Liaison Program; the Lake County, Florida, Multiagency/Special Education Program; and the Rock Island, Illinois, Coalition High School Model. (CL)

A public secondary school's career and vocational education program is composed of five components: curriculum, career guidance and placement, community resource services, staff development, and evaluation. The program's ultimate goal is to help students become self sufficient and productive. (CL)

The Empathic Rational Action (ERA) model is presented as an introductory training program for clinical supervisors. This system, said the authors, requires supervisory action as process rationale, to include objective data collection. (Editor/RK)

This paper introduces the reader to microfinance integrated with health and nutrition education as a promising strategy for Title II practitioners. The paper provides an overview of how microfinance, particularly village banking, can contribute to the food-security objectives of Title II. It describes a variant of village banking, called…

"Credit with Education" is a way to provide self-financing microfinance (or small-scale banking) to women, primarily in very poor rural areas, while at the same time providing education for business and family survival. Within the village banking environment, attempts to integrate education with village bank meetings have fallen into two…

This model is a career-oriented approach designed to enhance the employability and career options of out-of-school adults. (Author)

The described curriculum can serve as a model for sociology departments that would like to make modest changes in their master's level programs to train students for careers in applied sociology. (Author/RM)

Specific teaching programs in dental care for the handicapped at each of The Robert Wood Johnson grant-supported institutions are summarized. Curriculum, clinical experience, student-faculty attitudes, community impact, patient procurement, and didactic instruction are reviewed. (JMF)

The authors discuss a sequential vocational rehabilitation procedure (the Crux Model) for using evaluation data to determine appropriate vocational hypotheses and for involving the handicapped client in the rehabilitation planning process. (CL)