Dealing with the impact of crisis on school children and staff is not the primary mission of schools. Therefore, many schools remain unprepared to respond to a crisis affecting students and staff. Too often they respond to each successive crisis in a reflexive manner with little preplanned coordination or structure. This workshop provides an…

This brief discusses the intersection of health services and education. After introducing the topic of health services within the educational context, the brief discusses coordinated school health programs, defining such programs and offering examples of the programs in practice. The brief then discusses health education and risk behaviors,…

This publication is intended to serve as a practical guide to the development of relevant curricula for the education and training of environmental health professionals. This book aims to: (1) set out principles for developing policies on education and training for environmental health professionals at national and subnational levels; (2)…

This is a checklist of suggested systems, policies and procedures for supporting Mental Health and wellness services within Migrant & Seasonal Head Start programs. This checklist was developed in accordance with the Head Start Program Performance Standards and represents a comprehensive best practice model. In this checklist you will find…

Discusses issues raised by the 1970 report of the Joint Commission on Mental Health of Children, entitled "Crisis in Child Mental Health: Challenge for the 1970's; "makes recommendations for APA'S response to the report; and proposes a model which could be used to deliver many of the services that are advocated. (Author/JM)

Discusses the changing needs of environmental health programs in the United States Air Force over the last twenty years, and describes the present programs and training of environmental health personnel. (JR)

Discusses what was expected of a health program, what happened in the course of its implementation, how major departures from what was expected are being explained, and what some implications are for public policy of the actual results, expected or unexpected. (Author/JM)

Describes the type of organization known as a charrette; relates its effects to the larger social process, and examines some aspects of the technical and advisory roles of mental health consultants participating in this process, making recommendations where needed. (Author/JM)

Discusses the Home Start program, the new three-year Head Start demonstration program designed to bring comprehensive child development services to children and families in their own homes by helping parents provide many of the same services Head Start offers children in centers. (Author/JM)

An interview with Dr. Edward Zigler, who is director of the Child Study Center of Yale and former director of the U.S. Office of Child Development. (Author/JM)

Purpose of the research was to identify some personal and program variables which might be manipulated in the future to increase the number of dependable student volunteers. (Author)

Emphasizes the low priorities that the Administration's planners of Health Maintenance Organizations have assigned toward correcting the maldistribution of health delivery and community/consumer participation, and reviews some of the health bills already submitted to Congress. (JM)

Describes a program designed to help children identify expresssions of love and to explore how one feels when one is loved or not loved. (Author)

Describes establishment and operation of a Student Service Center at San Fernando Valley State College, the intention of which is to assist students through active intervention to make a better adjustment to college environment. Center activities focus on research, community organization (campus), intervention, social action projects on campus,…

Noting that venereal diseases are reaching epidemic proportions in the U.S., author urges a straightforward program of informing students of the symptoms and how to get care, plus increased school-parent cooperation in understanding the problem in order to combat it. (PD)