This handbook provides guidance to schools operating Community-based Vocational Education (CBVE) programs for students with disabilities and encourages the adoption of CBVE programs by schools not presently using this approach. By following the information and examples contained in this handbook, schools can proceed with confidence to operate…

Plain Talk is a community-based initiative designed to assist neighborhood groups and residents in creating and implementing locally acceptable and effective strategies to protect sexually active youth from pregnancy. Plain Talk aims to affect individual, neighborhood, and community behavior through a process that focuses on helping adults develop…

The Child First Authority (CFA) is a Baltimore (Maryland) community-wide after-school program that seeks to improve the quality of life in low socioeconomic status communities. The CFA, which is funded by local government agencies and coordinated by Baltimoreans United in Leadership Development (BUILD), established after-school programs in 10…

This report focuses on service and service-learning in high schools. The report compares data from 1984 research with information from two studies of service and service-learning completed in 1997. The data suggest that community service and service-learning in 1984 was available in slightly more than one-quarter of all high schools (primarily to…

This guide presents a five-step approach to planning, conducting, and evaluating a community-school health advisory council. The five steps are: (1) convening an advisory council (learning about community-school health advisory councils, obtaining support from the school district, identifying potential members, organizing and conducting the first…

This document presents a report on a 2-year study of community anti-drug coalitions in 11 cities that have community initiatives programs. Through an extensive review of the literature, conversations with prevention experts, and interviews with members of the programs, an examination was made of the lessons learned by the coalitions. Since formal…

This report summarizes the methodology and response to a survey used to determine the need for university-level undergraduate computer science education in Central Oregon and how best to address this need. Fifty Central Oregon businesses completed a survey intended to verify the perceived community need for computing graduates. Findings indicated…

The focus of this practitioner brief is: What are the messages being conveyed by a learning center? What is it about the learning center that makes the people want to come? The author, the director of the adult learning center, decided she could best answer these questions by interviewing a lead teacher at the center. According to this teacher,…

Changing the environment that affects decisions about use of alcohol and other drugs has emerged as a key to reducing substance use problems among college and university students. The student environment, however, is not limited to the campus. Education, counseling, and campus-based prevention policies and activities cannot succeed if a campus is…

An extended-care program at a child guidance clinic placed student volunteers in closely supervised relationships with emotionally disturbed children. The study concluded that college students are an effective if unappreciated source of manpower. (Author)

A dynamic village schoolmarm combines new ideas and old values in making the community a part of an informal'' approach to learning. (Editor)

Discusses the cooperative efforts of the county school system and the department of recreation in the construction of Thomas Jefferson Junior High School/Community Center. (See EA 503 566.) (Author)

Suggests that the environment outside the school is now capable of taking over many of the school's classical functions, while educational functions traditionally carried on outside the school are now largely missing. (JF)

Tells of various approaches used in New Haven, Connecticut's campaign to improve reading attitudes in school children. All facets of the community were involved in the effort, and approaches used included television commercials, radio spots, endorsements by famous people, and billboard and newspaper ads. (VJ)