Describes effort of mental health center staff to implement non-traditional programming for women in situational life crises. Successes in the work have helped overcome some objections to special approaches to women. Projects have community interest and support, have answered many unmet needs of women, and have enhanced service delivery.…

This report presents the results of a four-phase effort in which guidelines describing the qualities and characteristics of a successful drug education program were formulated. The research, conducted at Fort Knox, Kentucky, consisted of a survey on drug usage and related attitudes administered to Army personnel, and a review of civilian drug…

The purpose of the Learning to Learn Project was to ascertain if a comprehensive, early-childhood intervention program could effectively break the cycle of educational disabilities and inadequacies generally associated with the public school careers of poverty children, and insure their long-term educational success. Major findings of the…

Described is a 4-year project to design and implement a competency-based training model which prepared teachers and administrators for careers in early childhood programs that integrate normal and handicapped children. Discussed in the introductory chapter are the project's rationale, overview, objectives, and training setting. Chapters II through…

Presented is a project proposal for improving the assimilation of Puerto Rican and foreign born students in Hoboken, New Jersey. The project, to be funded by the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title III, intends to aid acculturation by giving school staffs an "in-depth experience" in Puerto Rico. It is felt that this field trip…

In January 1987, California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), began to explore the potential of interactive videodisk (IVD) technology on its campus. The challenge of introducing an individualized instructional technology into a cost conscious and conventional teaching environment was formidable, considering the traditional orientation of…

This booklet on enhancing diversity in agricultural education consists of six papers. In section 1, the paper, "Embedded Biases in Agricultural Education" (Linda Whent), identifies unconscious biases of agricultural teacher educators toward students of diverse populations, actions that reduce minority student participation in agricultural…

A model program, Training, Rehabilitation, and Employment for Addicts in Treatment (TREAT), was conducted to coordinate the resources of community-based, employment-related services to help former drug addicts become productively employed. From 635 applications, ninety-five ex-addicts were randomly selected to receive training (experimental group)…