This updated resource manual of racial diversity programs and activities should help promote racial reconciliation and understanding among diverse communities. It includes 72 new programs, and six new Indiana communities actually embracing this challenge have been included: Crawfordsville, New Castle, Plainfield, Seymour, Valparaiso, and Wawasee.…

A framework for the development of adult education within the community development process is presented, based on a three-year project in England that experimented with a number of approaches. The network system suggested involves: (1) an organizational model for adult education provision in a community development setting which may be adopted…

Described is a program in which mental health services coordinated by a physician intern were provided in a New York City school. (CL)

This project assumes that a youngster's problems with the law rarely occur in isolation. More often, they are part of a constellation of problems--family conflict, school failure, unemployment, emotional difficulties and, in urban ghettos, inadequate housing and health care. The Neighborhood Youth Resources Center (NYRC) of Philadelphia provides a…

The description of the Miami University (Ohio) project shows how the idea for community involvement was generated and presents a resource utilization model. (MS)

Community-based learning (CBL) is a prevocational program that provides opportunities for career exploration. This publication outlines the particular adaptations that need to be made to the original CBL model to meet the needs of handicapped students. A flow chart of the CBL process and a CBL program overview are provided. CBL is then discussed…

A K-12 career education project involving thirty-eight school corporations in Southwestern Indiana had several objectives, including developing a concept of career education, developing career education materials, developing a career education model for rural settings, and increasing the utilization of existing school and community resources. The…

This booklet is designed to be used as a workbook to present the concept of community education in a format which addresses important questions any community needs to consider as it explores community education. The booklet can be used in conjunction with the videotape "Community Education: A Profile of Two Communities." However, the contents of…

This publication describes what approximately 100 groups around the country are doing with regard to food, housing, energy, and health to beat inflation on the neighborhood level. The book is intended as a resource for citizens wishing to take the kind of consumer action that will save them and their neighbors money. Some of the programs featured…

Describes a rehabilitation counselor training program, the Independent Living Project, that attempts to meet the needs of a community agency while simultaneously providing students with a paid work experience, direct client contact, and an opportunity to integrate the knowledge and skills learned in counselor education programs. (Author/RC)

Provided is the final report of the Arkansas Child Abuse and Neglect Demonstration Project, a service delivery model based on the use of volunteer personnel to provide services directly to families with child abuse problems. It is noted that the project was carried out by SCAN (Suspected Child Abuse and Neglect), a non-profit voluntary agency.…

Addressing the lack of cooperation between early intervention programs and the rural health community, this monograph presents eight papers by educators and health professionals who identify specific problems and offer solutions in the form of effective collaboration techniques and model programs. Papers by Susan Hastings and Stewart Gabel…

Since South Carolina's Title V Community and Resource Development (CRD) project is limited to one small rural county (Williamsburg) affording careful documentation, this paper explicates South Carolina's CRD process via a social action model. This project, then, is described in terms of the following model components: (1) community initiative…

This report is one of a series of special booklets concerned with current trends in school policies and programs. The purpose of this particular publication is to provide practitioners at all levels, and others interested in education, with the most up-to-date information on some of the current issues in early childhood education. Individual…