This volume relates the origins of Volunteers in Service To America (VISTA), its problems and achievements. Originating in President Kennedy's proposal for a national service corps (1963), VISTA reached concrete form with the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. While white middle class youth constitute the bulk of the volunteers, the organization…

Studies listed in this 550 item annotated bibliography on the Community Action Program are classified by 16 population groups (including unemployed, professional and paraprofessional, rural and urban, out of school youth, aged, minority groups, migrants, preschool and school children, welfare recipients, and staff members of the Office of Economic…

The Higher Education Amendment of 1968 provided for support services on college and university campuses to facilitate the progress of disadvantaged young people (from families within the national poverty criteria or the physically handicapped). Three years later an evaluation of the special service programs (typically including specially staffed…