A program description of a two-year course in environmental management at the Washington Park Horticulture Education Center, Cleveland, Ohio. (GB)

Describes the organization and training of a parent support group to prevent child abuse. Initial training assisted group members to become aware of their attitudes toward child abusers. Training also focused on developing listening skills, procedures for making referrals, and the handling of confidential information. (RC)

Describes development, objectives, program content, and evaluation of a model for training New Hampshire family day care providers. (MP)

Emphasizes preservice education and training of older persons for work with their peers. Describes three training programs with older participants: the Senior Companion Program, the Health and Fitness Program, and the Closing the Generation Gap Project. (RC)

Makes a case for more developmental activities for principals, lists characteristics of ideal programs, identifies important competencies for which principals have indicated training needs, and reviews ways to overcome problems involved. (JM)

Describes a program at Scottsdale Community College in Arizona which offers training and curricula in tribal management, planning, and administration for Native American students. Looks at needs for tribal management, the community college's role, and program development. (AYC)

An example of a one-month training program on developmental disabilities for pediatric residents is presented. (Author/PHR)

Describes an adolescent outpatient pretherapy training and orientation program considered to have speeded group cohesion; increased expression of positive expectations; reduced time-wasting discussion; decreased concerns over confidentiality; and facilitated verbal feedback skills. (Author/DB)

Outlines some of the achievements of the Summer Program for Economically Disadvantaged Youth (SPEDY) during the summer of 1978. Four programs in Virginia, Minnesota, Texas, and Washington are examined not because they are exemplary but because they illustrate what is happening in some of the better youth employment programs around the country. (CT)

Describes EBIS (Education Board Inservice Series), a year-long series of monthly training sessions for Catholic parish leaders and Catholic school board members in the Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota area. (Author/SJL)

The Xerox Center for Training and Management Development considers itself an adjunct rather than an alternative to traditional higher education; the center's responsibility is to supply its students with the specific knowledge and skills they need to do their jobs efficiently and to advance professionally. (JMF)