The supervisor of Parent Education in Cincinnati describes the lay leadership training program organized to train leaders in parent study-discussion groups. Comments are directed toward the program's growth, purposes, and success. (AG)

The result of a national working conference held in October, 1976, this publication describes twelve respected and successful internship/fellowship programs, each of which has had a demonstrated record of successful identification, selection, training, and finally, placement of minority group individuals in positions of leadership and…

Describes a family day care program designed to enable day care mothers to become professional child development workers. Factors which facilitate this development are elaborated: recruiting and selecting day care mothers; preservice and inservice training; use of consultants; and some administrative considerations. (CS)

Project Career (New Berlin, Wisconsin) is a special vocational needs education support program for disabled adolescents. The project's underlying philosophy focuses on early detection of potential vocational limitations steming from handicaps and the development of skills to overcome, compensate for, or contend with the disability. Eligibility…

This publication was prepared as a guide to dealing with school human relations problems, with a focus on leadership training. It describes one method of organizing and training teams of administrators, teachers, support staff, parents, and others to pursue desirable human relations goals. The model program presented here was developed to aid…

THESE INSTITUTES CONTINUED THE EMPHASIS OF THE 1964 AND 1965 INSTITUTES ON TRAINING TEACHERS TO TEACH FLUID POWER AND EVOLVING EFFECTIVE TECHNIQUES FOR INTRODUCING NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO EDUCATORS. THEY WERE ADMINISTERED BY THE FLUID POWER SOCIETY WHICH, THROUGH ADVISORY COMMITTEES, ESTABLISHED THE CONTENT, PROCEDURES, AND COORDINATION OF THE…

The report discusses accomplishments of a project to develop and implement a field based instructional model for training university faculty in career education for handicapped students and to encourage career education training in existing university programs. It is explained that the project served three subgroups: 55 university faculty members,…

This report presents important issues involved in the use of volunteers in the juvenile justice system. Chapter I discusses volunteer program designs, organizational structure, potential program applications, and public relations. Chapter II reviews the volunteer: who he is, his motives for volunteering, and suggestions for recruiting, screening,…

The paper describes a 2-year college program designed to meet the need for front-line workers, who have been trained within the developmental model, to work with people exhibiting a broad variety of handicaps. The program is explained to adhere to a philosophy of normalization/integration for the handicapped. The orientation is noted to be…

The history, purposes, activities and success of the Widening Opportunity Research Center (WORC), founded in 1972 to promote continuing education in Massachusetts, are documented in this project report. Each area of the WORC program is described and evaluated as of 1978, including: (1) counseling; (2) training; (3) employment referral; and (4)…

The Crisis Prevention-Intervention Project (CPI) of the Boston Public Schools is described in two parts: a six-month evaluation report and an interim report by the project director. The goals of this pilot project for the five Boston schools (three public, two parochial) were: (1) to develop an operational program of crisis intervention and…

In response to the Tenth Food and Agricultural Regional Conference for Asia and the Far East (August/September 1970), a comparative study of the different approaches already tried in the Region was conducted, and as the product of that study, this report briefly describes projects currently operating in India; Ceylon; Thailand; Malaysia;…

This publication offers a brief overview and description of the Educational Management Project, a comprehensive inservice program for educational administrators that was developed by the Tucson Public Schools. A series of short sections discusses all the project's major facets, including its target population, its general approach, its structure,…

The Massachusetts Public Library Materials Conservation Project was a year-long program sponsored by the Massachusetts Bureau of Library Extension and conducted by the New England document Conservation Center (NEDCC) under a grant from Title I, Library Services and Construction Act. Its purposes were to provide public library administrators,…

This booklet contains training recommendations for professional, administrative, and commercial trainees of the carpet industry in Great Britain. Focus is upon persons to be trained; responsibility for training; assessment of training needs; recruitment and selection; descriptions of types of programs; instruction and supervision; control of…