The Outward Bound Experience has a strong yet time-limited impact on delinquent youths. Social workers can help maintain the impact by establishing community-based follow-up programs to reinforce and sustain the positive attitudes and behaviors developed. (SE)

Describes a program in which handicapped scientists appear before school audiences to provide role models for handicapped students as well as to increase the understanding of nonhandicapped students about the abilities of handicapped people. (IRT)

The program described uses simulation activities; exposure to aids and appliances; guest speakers; books, movies, slides, and videotapes; and class discussion to help elementary students understand disabilities. (IRT)

This article describes adversary evaluation and explains its use in evaluation of school-based programs by school psychologists. The authors discuss the history of adversary evaluation, the various models that have been used, and major research findings. Three diverse examples of adversary evaluation are presented, along with criteria for…

Defends Project EXCEL against criticisms offered in EA 510 647. (IRT)

The article describes the development and evaluation of a Parent-Therapist Program, an innovative family-based treatment model that serves as an alternative to the placement of emotionally disturbed children in residential treatment centers. (Author/DLS)

The development of Systems Unlimited is summarized; a normalization program that provides community residential living for moderately to severely handicapped individuals, who usually were institutionalized. (Author/BD)

A survey of the library system in Iran, consisting of about two thousand libraries and five million volumes, under the following headings: National Library: The Present, Pahlavi National Library: The Future, Public Libraries, Children's Libraries, Academic Libraries, School Libraries, Libraries for Tribal Schools, Special Libraries, Iranian…

This paper describes a project that focuses on youth themselves as resources in meeting the problem of maltreatment of adolescents. The 4-part program consists of a youth-staffed hot line, a self-help group, an information pamphlet for recognizing maltreatment and a public awareness campaign. (Author/SE)

Describes a foster care agency set up and managed entirely by foster parents, and discusses the roles and relationships of the foster parents and social workers in the agency. (Author/SE)

Here is an inexpensive approach for broadening student knowledge of metal techniques. Electroforming and electroetching are fully described. (Author/RK)

An existing computer program for computing multiple regression analyses is made interactive in order to alleviate core storage requirements. Also, some improvements in the graphics aspects of the program are included. (JKS)

This article indicates some of the ways in which the National Urban League has dealt with the problem of minority youth. These ways include programs such as the Street Academy Program, student internship programs, and the Black Executive Exchange Program, a conference on youth employment, and affiliation with other programs. (Author/AM)

Unfortunately, many elementary schools today are not equipped with an art room. In addition, thousands of elementary school children complete the first six years of their formal education without the benefit of a qualified art teacher. The project described is one small step toward educating the "whole" child. It features the Artmobile,…