The United States General Accounting Office undertook an assessment of whether additional federal funds are needed to assist states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the United States territories in completing the development of the comprehensive mental health services plans required by law. To assess need, officials at the Department of…

The text of the final Congressional hearing on H.R. 1801, a bill to reauthorize the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act for 4 more years, is presented in this document. Introductory statements are given by Congressmen Dale E. Kildee and Tom Lewis. Testimony by these witnesses is included: (1) Ernest E. Allen, chairman of the board of…

This document provides witness testimony and prepared statements from the Congressional hearing called to investigate the cost of long-term care for the chronically ill and disabled. The merits of a public-private initiative on long-term care insurance are considered by the witnesses, who include a woman struggling to care for herself and her son,…

Past research on child support payments has suggested that a large problem exists with post-divorce payments of child support. Much of this research, however, suffers from the methodological flaws of mixing together people who were divorced with people who were never married and of questioning only the custodial parents. This study surveyed a…

Provided are guidelines and background information for use in applying for guaranteed loans through the Day Care Facilities Loan Guarantee Fund (the "Fund"), which is administered by the Maryland Department of Economic and Community Development. The purpose of the Fund is to guarantee loans made by lending institutions to finance the…

This document reports on the states' implementation of the Child Support Enforcement Amendments of 1984. The Child Support Enforcement Program is a federally administered, state run program in which child support agencies locate absent parents, establish paternity, obtain support orders, and enforce support collections with the purpose of reducing…

At the request of Congressman Ted Weiss, the General Accounting Office (GAO) reviewed discretionary grant funding practices by the Office of Human Development Services (OHDS) for National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect projects. The GAO investigation focused on the extent to which OHDS selected and rejected full grant applications and…

Observations of the Director of Libraries at Clarion State College, Pennsylvania, are presented on issues confronting academic libraries in the 1980's in two categories: constant or diminishing financial support, and increasing patron demand for services. Library materials and operating budgets, interlibrary cooperation, resource sharing,…

This paper explores an innovative approach to funding school improvement programs. It looks at a series of programs initiated by the National College of Education in collaboration with several corporations and foundations in the Chicago metropolitan area. The evolution of the College's participation in these endeavors is reported as well as the…

This book is intended as a practical guidebook for those involved in continuing education, in particular, and for the boards and staff of nonprofit organizations and community groups, in general. It is designed to show these individuals how to develop community resources when additional support is needed for community education. Specific…

During the past two years there has been a significant change in the attitudes of banks toward the agricultural sector of our economy, shown by the provision of financial assistance to the production segment of the agribusiness industry. (Author/BP)

Discusses recent budget cuts at the National Institute of Education and their ramifications. (PG)

These technical notes describe the methodology used in determining the costs of that part of the undergraduate medical education program not financed by contributed services or by income from research or clinical activity. (Author)

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) are seeking to improve communications with the academic community, to utilize the NIH advisory apparatus more effectively in the development of NIH programs, and to develop uniform policies with specific criteria for selecting grants to fund extramural research. (Editor/PG)

Discusses some of the benefits which have accrued from Title 1 ESEA funds, and some of the criticisms of their use. Maintains that Pupil Personnel Services do not generally benefit from Title funds since their achievements are not easily measured. (HMV)