Describes strategies to build and support coalitions for services in an era of diminished public and private resources. It becomes necessary to redefine the client, the community, and the agency or organization to develop appropriate roles for each component in the current social and economic climate. (SLD)

A statement is made on the desirability of expanding teacher education programs to prepare professionals who can work in other than school positions. It is argued that the field of human services needs personnel with the kind of training colleges of education are equipped to provide. (JD)

This document discusses the development and implementation of a multiservice center that could offer a variety of human social services in a single location. The paper focuses on seven components of the center's operation: governance, organizational structure, core services, joint funding, joint planning, joint programming, and evaluation. The…

Many things happen when human services education is a part of the school. Not only do the students and recipient institutions benefit, the school and community feel the good effects, too. (Editor)

Racism still abounds on the college campus. Thomas and Yates have implemented two paraprofessional programs in an attempt to alleviate this problem. Their work speaks to all persons involved in human service delivery systems. (Author)

Survival in the arena of human services demands that today's program planner follow a pattern for change. (Editor)

Responds to articles by McCann, Sakheim, and Abrahamson and by Downing concerning victimization. Discusses usefulness of both articles and identifies some oversights in the articles. Notes that the expansion of programs and move toward more comprehensive services has already resulted in action on several recommendations of authors. Describes some…

The provision of high quality orientation and mobility (O&M) services to older persons with visual impairments requires consideration of problems in attitudes, client characteristics, financial resources, inservice training, and the availability of age-appropriate assessment instruments. This paper discusses research on O&M interventions and…

What's happening in training programs on campus? And where do the graduates go? True and Young's pioneer work in the Center for Human Services Research provides many of the answers. (Author)

This article reports the results of a survey of all community college human services programs in the 14 states of the South. Included are discussions of important issues: program objectives, curricular design, use of field training, graduate placement assessment, and the identification of the human services field. (JDS)

Discussed an innovative curriculum, human services, designed primarily to prepare students for immediate employment in a variety of social agencies. (Author/RK)

This paper presents a framework for early intervention for children having (or at risk of developing) disabilities, produced by Eurlyaid, a working party of the European Community. The framework addresses definitions of key concepts, the target group, rationale behind early intervention, content of early intervention, conditions necessary for…

Since 1979 collaborative activities in continuing education for human services workers in Montana have shown that combining training efforts among agencies and higher education units provides better instruction at a considerable savings in cost and particularly suits rural agencies with small training budgets and small, widely dispersed staffs.…

The subcommittee's purpose was to conduct an oversight hearing on the Older Americans Act of 1965 as amended, and to provide grants to states for the establishment, maintenance, operation, and expansion of low-cost meal programs, nutrition training and education programs, and opportunity for social contracts. A major portion of the testimony is…

This paper summarizes family planning activities and accomplishments from 1968 to 1970 in Thailand, with particular emphasis on the Family Health Project conducted by the Ministry of Public Health. This project, in reality a family planning program, provided remarkable success in that it was established with no official national population policy…