Health educators are encouraged to take advantage of community resources. (MM)

The case study examines the causes and effects of childhood teasing on disabled children and notes the added stress of a new house and new neighborhood. Becoming more acquainted with community and school resources is seen as one way of dealing with the situation. (CL)

The SEFAM Program (Supporting Extended Family Members) in Settle, WA, has organized workshops for grandparents of handicapped children. Questionnaire responses of 21 workshop participants touch upon their initial reaction to the handicaps, their needs, their contributions, and the supports available to them. (CL)

More and more communities are rallying together to solve their own problems. These broad-based initiatives are illustrations of the international healthy communities movement. The healthy communities movement emerged from the World Health Organization in 1986 and has quickly spread across the globe. A cornerstone of the movement is the Ottawa…

Health care providers recognize the importance of standards of care and standardized models of evaluation and intervention on cases of domestic violence. Examined are algorithms and care pathways being utilized to assure consistency in the evaluation and interventions offered where the spectrum symptoms of domestic violence are identified in the…

A joint school and recreation complex in Arlington County, Virginia, is designed to serve the entire community. (Editors)

Discusses the transition of Illinois Bell's educational relations department to the career education concept. (SB)

The development of a technology for helper training and its implications for human and community resource development are discussed. (BY)

Describes programs, primarily in science, in Carlisle and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (SP)

The article describes the types of resources available in all communities for use in early childhood programs and, suggests several techniques that can be used in organizing a community resource program in varied early childhood educational settings. (Author/NQ)

This paper examines relationships between 2 dimensions of social integration (community participation and affective community resources) and job and marital quality. Data from the 1995 National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (n= 1,816) indicate that the level of community participation is unrelated or negatively related to job…

The purpose of the U.S. Department of Education's online newsletter "The Education Innovator" is to promote innovative practices in education; to offer features on promising programs and practices; to provide information on innovative research, schools, policies, and trends; and to keep readers informed of key Department priorities and activities.…

There has been a growing movement toward expanding biomedical psychiatric models focused on individual psychopathology using contextually-sensitive, socio-politically informed, ecological approaches, and resilience and recovery perspectives emphasizing individuals' rights to access the necessary resources to resume life pursuits (e.g. education)…

In this introduction, the author sets the tone for a series of articles which are intended to stimulate elementary teachers and school personnel to recognize the value of community resources and to undertake steps to make full utilization of such resources. (Author/JR)

The article discusses a few of the consumer education resources (outside speakers, field trips, newspapers and other media, consumer organizations, credit bureaus, Federal and State agencies, and the Consumer Resource Directory) that are available to teachers in most communities and offers suggestions on how to effectively use them. (BP)