Describes the organization and functioning of a medical consultation program serving a child welfare agency. Shows how child welfare workers, with medical consultation, are in a pivotal position to provide services that promote healthful functioning and facilitate client access to the total health care delivery system. (JH)

Many resource centers are concerned with matters related to addressing barriers to learning and development (including a focus on mental health and psychosocial problems). This concern also usually encompasses matters related to promoting effective instruction and healthy development. On May 7th, 2001, 16 of these centers met in Washington, DC for…

People with alcohol or other drug disease face public and private policies that restrict their access to appropriate health care, employment, and public benefits, discouraging them from seeking treatment, robbing them of hope for recovery, and costing society millions of dollars. Join Together, a project of Boston University School of Public…

In response to a need for a comprehensive program to fill the gap in services for children with diabetes and their families, the Diabetic Youth and Family Program of Wichita, Kansas is directing efforts to deal effectively and creatively with children's diabetic problems. (CS)

Describes a school that emphasizes short-term goals to help achieve self-confidence. The adolescent program includes four interconnecting parts: the academic classroom; home economics; industrial arts; and an evening program of art, music, guidance, and physical education. (Author/JF)

Discusses the importance of including humanities, social sciences, family planning, health education, and community health programs in premedical or medical education. (Author/PG)

Author discusses scientific reinforcement of good health habits now being taught largely by common sense and faith alone. (GB)

Discusses the health occupations preparatory developments at the University of Iowa. (Author/RK)

Discusses a unique coordination of public and private resources in Eastern Baltimore County, Md., which has made possible a variety of allied health programs and services by Essex Community College and Franklin Square Hospital. (Author/RK)

This program prepares school nurses for an expanded role which includes formal study followed by supervised practice in the school where the nurse is employed. (Author)

Summary of Lasswell's eight categories of human values with suggestions and examples of how this framework of values can be effectively utilized by education to produce responsible and productive citizens. (JC)

Author discusses some areas of responsibility professionals have for and to the paraprofessionals who work in the mental health field. (Author/CB)