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Federal Aid Planner, 1973
Title I authorizes grants or contracts for all or part of the cost of planning, establishing, or operating community-based services for the prevention of delinquency. (Author)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Community Services, Delinquency Prevention, Demonstration Programs
Friedman, Clare Taylor – Exceptional Parent, 1989
Integrating infants with visual impairments into playgroups for nonhandicapped infants and their parents has been successfully accomplished and offers benefits to both infants and parents. A model demonstration project, "Parents and Visually Impaired Infants Project," integrated infants into a community program involving play, music, and…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Community Programs, Demonstration Programs, Infants
Download full textGriffiths, Keith S., Ed.; Ferdun, Gareth S., Ed. – 1974
Since 1958, the California Youth Authority has undertaken a wide diversity of research projects which span the range of activities in which the department is involved. These include program evaluation and development, measurement and classification, followup studies, and experimentally designed demonstration projects. Studies have been directed at…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Counseling Services, Demonstration Programs, Followup Studies
GATLIN, CURTIS – 1960
A MIGRANT EDUCATION DEMONSTRATION PROJECT WAS UNDERTAKEN TO MARSHAL PUBLIC AND PRIVATE RESOURCES OF THE STATE TO PROVIDE MORE DAYS OF SCHOOLING IN NEW JERSEY FOR MIGRANTS. AIMS INCLUDED ESTABLISHING PUBLIC SUPPORT THROUGH STATE AND LOCAL CITIZENS' COMMITTEES, CONDUCTING SURVEYS TO CHECK POTENTIAL AND ACTUAL ENROLLMENT OF MIGRANT CHILDREN IN LOCAL…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Community Programs, Compensatory Education, Demonstration Programs
National Center for Health Services Research and Development (DHEW/PHS), Rockville, MD. – 1976
Discussed are practical factors involved in planning and carrying out child abuse and neglect treatment programs. It is explained that the information is based on the experience of 11 demonstration projects in 10 states. Chapter 1 details planning theories and offers a model for program planning. Chapter 2 is designed to inform planners of typical…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Child Welfare, Community Programs
Nelson, Debra – 1999
This report describes activities and accomplishments of the Community Options Project, a 5-year effort to enhance the capacity of eight local communities in New Hampshire and Maine to include young children (birth to age 6) with disabilities and their families in typical early childhood programs and to enhance the quality of these programs for all…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Programs, Day Care, Demonstration Programs
Weiss, Heather B.; And Others – 1990
This report focuses on the formulation and implementation of family support and education policies in four states, all of which have established programs that provide the core services of parenting education, early childhood development activities, parent support groups, and information about other community agencies. The initiatives are…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy
Peer reviewedBruden, Mary Beth – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 1993
This article describes a demonstration project that utilized 28 community early childhood programs as intervention placements for 30 preschool-age children with disabilities. Results suggested significant developmental gains for all children. Service delivery characteristics identified as necessary for the effective implementation of intervention…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Delivery Systems, Demonstration Programs, Disabilities
1976
The handbook focuses on the methods and techniques used in the Child Advocacy Project (Philadelphia), a community development project for child advocacy in five areas--education, youth activities, health and welfare, legal rights, and handicapped and mentally retarded children. Brief sections cover the following areas (sample topics are in…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Case Studies, Child Advocacy, Community Education
Lomax, Denise, Comp.; Mills, Ronnie, Ed. – 1984
This volume of the "Publications of the National Institute of Justice" encompasses all documents published for distribution by the National Institute of Justice from 1978 to 1982. This comprehensive bibliography, which covers all the annual supplements since the last cumulative volume (1978), provides criminal justice professionals with…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Correctional Institutions, Correctional Rehabilitation, Crime
City Univ. of New York, NY. Center for Advanced Study in Education. – 1987
The manual addresses the design and implementation of personnel practices for improving the preparation and performance of paraprofessionals who work with developmentally disabled persons in community-based settings. The first part of the manual describes components of a comprehensive system of career development (entry level positions, career…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Ladders, Community Programs, Community Services
Peer reviewedMaru, A. A.; Cook, M. J. – Journal of Visual Impairment and Blindness, 1990
The paper reviews the historical and cultural attitudes of Ethiopians toward blind children, the education of blind children, the special situation of orphaned blind children, limitations of existing educational models, and development of a new model that relies on elements of community-based rehabilitation and the employment of blind high school…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Blindness, Community Programs, Delivery Systems
Watson, Wendy; Bate, Barbara – 1991
This document addresses literacy partnerships and presents a guide for community organization and program development. Section 1, "Developing a Community Literacy Organization," provides a framework for planning. It covers getting started, becoming a society, building a strong board, conducting effective meetings, accessing the media,…
Descriptors: Adult Literacy, Community Cooperation, Community Organizations, Community Programs
Strother and Associates, Rochester, NY. – 1990
In 1982 the Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation, with funding from the Ford Foundation and assistance from more than 60 local and national funders, began a neighborhood self-help crime-prevention program in 10 inner city communities. The program was based on reducing urban violence and drug abuse through youth empowerment, community revitalization,…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Crime Prevention, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Long, Huey B., Ed.; And Others – 1973
Six approaches to community development are presented by several authors in this booklet. Chapter 1 presents an introduction to the community development concept. In chapter 2, L. J. Cary emphasizes three distinctive features of the community approach: (1) popular or broad-based participation, (2) community as an important concept, and (3) the…
Descriptors: Community, Community Development, Community Education, Community Involvement
