Prodigy is an example of a program that is successful due to its being a program that is community engaged. Prodigy is a community arts program, crime prevention and diversion program, serving ten thousand people in seven counties. This article discusses the roles, challenges, and successes of the partnerships with the School of Social Work at the…

This directory provides brief descriptions, addresses, and contact people for 6 learning partners, reading sites, 143 other literacy services, and 13 federal agencies that serve children and their families through READ*WRITE*NOW! (a year-round intergenerational program) and other literacy efforts. The directory provides the names of national…

This book is designed to be a resource tool for all environmental education advocates and supporters, particularly those seeking to fully incorporate environmental education into their state and local school system. It provides a conceptual model for understanding comprehensive environmental education programs and the steps necessary to achieve…

This paper describes an application of basic concepts and theory from family life education in a community program for families. Following a review of background theory and philosophy, an action program model is presented and discussed. Experiences with the model are highlighted and implications for future work noted. (Author)

The role of the educator can become one of identifying the various community resources of an educational nature that can be utilized by learners. An elementary school project at Red Oak, Iowa, and a University of Nebraska graduate student project utilizing community resources are described. (BP)

Various types of citizen training programs were surveyed by the staff of the St. Louis (Missouri) Leadership Program to determine the characteristics of a successful training program. The study is based on the belief that an active citizenry is a necessity for a democracy and that citizenship training and education are necessary to encourage…

Article described a project that examined the relationship of the arts to community recreation and park programs. (Author/RK)

The report describes Aunt Martha's Youth Service Center (IL), a multipurpose agency which focuses on the needs of adolescents. Founded in 1968, the agency now (1978) has a staff of 40, a 21 member board of directors, 199 volunteers, 28 foster parents, and serves a 15 township region. The goals of the program are to increase opportunities for young…

This short report provides a brief description of a research project presenting an alternative approach to delinquency treatment. Achievement Place is a family-sized residential treatment home for predelinquent and delinquent youngsters. Six to eight boys, aged 12-16, live in a renovated house located in their own community. A specially trained…

This report on the status of SEARCH provides information about its beginnings, funding considerations, case studies of project success, evaluation methods, and application and testing of SEARCH in a number of school districts throughout the state of New York. Project SEARCH is geared to humanizing education by making students aware of the values…

Runaways have become a concern to Congress, law enforcement agencies, courts, and parents. Since running away is a juvenile offense, it has serious legal consequences for the young people involved. This publication describes one community's successful effort to divert runaways from the juvenile justice system and to strengthen services to troubled…

The final six months of the Community Family Day Care Project are reported, together with a summary of the total project, recommendations for the future, and an analysis of the cost of replicating such a project. In the final six months of the project, the staff was concerned with building supports for the self-help organization Women Attentive to…

This paper focuses on the increasing number of senior citizens currently on college campuses. The author discusses some special programs made available by several universities to retirees who return to school. These programs offer special scholarships, counseling services, and seminars. Some of the universities specifically mentioned are the…

A non-profit corporation, called the Santa Cruz Community Service Television Project (S.C.C.S.T.P.), is proposed that would produce videotape for the purpose of intra-community communication. The corporation would use portable videotape equipment to record a variety of community programs, such as an ecological history of the Monterey Bay area, the…

The Volunteers in Education Project is designed to utilize community volunteers to provide, without charge, various services to the school staff. Other goals are to reinforce the instruction of the teaching staff with volunteers trained for particular service, to offer individual help to students, to make available the talents and resources of the…