Author reported on a polytechnic's attempts to set up a community project across the generations. (Editor/RK)

Article describes the summer colony built around a program of religion, culture, education, and recreation, the Institution on Chautauqua Lake at Chautauqua, New York. (Author)

A brief overview of the various community work programs utilizing video techniques in Great Britain. (HB)

This document contains materials necessary for setting up a McGruff House Program in a neighborhood community. A McGruff House is described as a temporary haven for children who find themselves in emergency or frightening situations such as being bullied, followed, or hurt while walking in a neighborhood. It is noted that persons who volunteer…

The Supportive Services Program for Older Persons is designed to demonstrate that a private market for home and community-based health related services can be developed in response to the demand expressed by older people and their families. The objective of the program is to expand the service options available to older people by letting market…

To test whether or not the factor structure of the Adaptive Behavior Scale (Part I) (ABS) differs when community-based mentally retarded subjects are used rather than institutionalized retarded subjects, the ABS was administered to 100 mentally retarded adults living at home and being served by community daytreatment programs. A principle…

The paper examines the Work Health Organization's (WHO) community based rehabilitation (CBR) scheme currently being field tested in a number of countries and examines also the usefulness of the WHO/CBR manual "Training Disabled People in the Community." The development of alternative CBR schemes in Asia, Africa, and Latin America since…

Directed toward parents of handicapped children, this brochure defines five major categories of sexual exploitation under Washington State laws: rape, attempted rape, incest, indecent liberties, and statutory rape. Changes in child behavior that may signal victimization are discussed, as well as immediate and long-term action that parents can…

This paper deals with consumer acceptance of a health maintenance organization created and operated by a university for the benefit of its community members. (JA)

This bibliography, compiled by the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives, encompasses a wide spectrum of documents related to juvenile deinstitutionalization. Although the bibliography is selective, it is a comprehensive listing of sources that deal with the negative effects of institutionalization, the movement toward…

The University of Louisville secured a grant through the University of Kentucky as the state agency for Administration of Title I of the Higher Education Act of 1966 in Kentucky to fund a series of young adult workshops sponsored by the Urban Studies Center and University College in cooperation with the Louisville Area Council of Churches and the…

The guide is designed to provide information about the requirements and provisions of various federal housing assistance programs and their direct relevance to the creation and support of residential options for the mentally ill. Chapter I provides a descriptive overview of potentially relevant federal housing provisions. In Chapter II, specific…

This guide is for use by advisers conducting workshops for high school students participating as volunteers in the School and Community Service Program. It contains the following five units: (a) voluntarism, (b) the tutor, (c) the recreation aide, (d) the volunteer with the elderly, and (e) the volunteer with the handicapped. Each unit contains a…

This study of nine Little League teams revolved around the following problems and questions: (a) role or status of Little League baseball as sport or athletics; (b) conflict in the interface of local, provincial, national, and international organizations; (c) relative significance of variables of technical skills, administrative decision-making,…