Medical and health care institutions must find solutions to growing public demands for less expensive and more accessible medical services. (IR)

Describes program instituted to fulfill "Orientation component of Work Incentive Program (WIN), but adapted to meet realities and needs of the community. Certain elements of group counseling have been incorporated. Salient features are identified for purpose of illustrating what can be done at local level. (Author/EK)

Suggests ways that adult education can have an immediate impact on community mental health. Recommends programs that can help individuals deal with change, accept alternative perspectives, and increase skills and behavioral options. Urges ties with community and health, mental health, and service agencies. (DMM)

Describes how the Ellington (Connecticut) Public Schools use community visiting teams to involve the community in school improvement. Teams are chosen from among persons recommended by community groups, visit a school for three consecutive days with a consultant, accomplish five evaluation tasks, and submit a written report with recommendations.…

Counselor education programs are faced with a perplexing problem: with minimal staff, how can counselors be prepared to function competently in both an educational and a community-based mental health environment? Presents two approaches to deal with this issue and suggests a model of counselor education. (Author/RC)

Reviews 10 studies in which psychiatric patients considered seriously ill were randomly assigned to either inpatient care or some alternative mode of outpatient care. Finds that in no case were the outcomes of hospitalization more positive than alternative treatment. (Author/GC)

The success of an outreach education program held by Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis is described. The college offers regular credit courses on Saturday and Sunday for people who could not take regularly scheduled courses. A Learn and Shop program held at shopping centers is also described. (JT)

Describes the objectives, organizational structure, and proposed activities of the National Task Force on Political Action, a grassroots network organized by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and designed to recruit citizen participation in providing voter education and promoting voter registration. (MJL)

Outlines what help is available and how it can be provided for Ontario teenagers with alcohol-related problems through community agencies and programs, services of professional social workers and counselors, group support, residential treatment, therapeutic goals, and family involvement. (NEC)

Data from a national survey showed that: retirement is not directly associated with visiting friends, identity, or well-being; lack of community activities is the strongest predictor of an older identity for both working and retired men; community activities have the strongest effect on the well-being of both. (Author/JAC)

Describes a strategy for a community development program that was to identify and connect needs and services through coordinated networks of organized citizens, businesses, agency staff, and local government. Reports that the strategy resulted in such programs as a county information service, a family life center, an interagency council, and a…

The goal of this development program is to combine greater community orientation with traditional concerns of academic geography. Describes objectives and activities designed to increase community awareness of, and opportunities to apply, geographic knowledge and methods. (Author/CK)

The article provides a survey of special education needs in Algeria with emphasis on the role of neighborhood centers which involve parents in the education of mentally handicapped children. Journal availability: see EC 133 861. (DB)