Nutrition programs for the elderly, particularly those funded Federally, are reviewed with focus on career opportunities for administrators, dietitians, and nutritionists, and others. (JT)

Individual Program Plans (n=163) from adults with developmental disabilities receiving community living support services in Australia were analyzed. While plans prepared by nongovernmental agencies were generally superior to governmental agency plans, the average level of plan presentation was poor. Only 14% of the plans offered any criterion for…

Data from the study, Transition Research on Adjudicated Youth in Community Settings, were used to examine community integration outcomes for the subgroup of adolescent fathers. Juvenile offenders who were fathers were found to return to the correctional system at a higher rate than nonfathers, but fathers who remained in the community were…

Discusses the specific and complex outcomes of community service participation in higher education. Argues that support for community service learning is likely to wane if long-standing narrow beliefs about cognition are not challenged; educators need to think more holistically about what constitutes an educated person. (Contains 22 references.)…

Assessed the service needs of HIV-affected families in an inner city African American community with a high HIV/AIDS seroprevalence. Data from focus group interviews indicated a lack of family-sensitive HIV/AIDS community services. Participants noted the problem with stigma and identified community awareness and education as critical to serving…

A study tested five propositions: citizens in consolidated governments are less informed about government services than those in fragmented systems; consolidated citizens are less efficacious; larger consolidated governments have less citizen participation; consolidated citizens are more dissatisfied; and competition among fragmented systems…

Used medico-social analytic model to compare five long-term care programs: Skilled Nursing Facility-Intermediate Care Facility (SNF-ICF) homes, ICF homes, foster homes, day hospitals, and home care. Identified similarities and differences among programs. Preliminary findings suggest that model is useful in the evaluation and design of long-term…

Recent research on the causes of hypertension could influence the care given by sports medicine physicians to Black patients in general, and to Black athletes in particular. (JD)

Most advisors do not have enough information about experiential learning opportunities in their communities to encourage their universities to become involved in offering these opportunities to their students. Some successful experiential learning programs are identified and the advisor's role in such a program is explained. (Author/MLW)

Explains the Cherokee concept of "gadugi," a tradition of interdependency and service which is reflected in the service component of the Native Indian Youth Leadership Project (NYLP). Provides examples of three levels of service in NYLP: (1) traditional community-generated service; (2) program-generated service; and (3) student-generated…

A program at the Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center in Boston (Massachusetts) supplements the traditional program of ropes and rocks with community service, giving urban students opportunities to try out new leadership skills in local neighborhoods. (MLF)

Examined cognitive impairment as predictor of community services used by older adults. For 97 health care clients, effects of 4 predictors differed depending on clients' cognitive impairment: living arrangement, presence of secondary caregivers, client depression, and task burden of primary caregiver. Found no differences in predictors of social…

Through Community Career Services the University of Missouri Career Center offers career counseling to adults. It has a three-level fee structure, attempts to provide appropriate materials and services for adults in career transition, and uses local media to publicize the program. (SK)

Offers a brief history of the formation of the National Council on Community Services for Community and Junior Colleges in 1969, quoting from discussion group recommendations, report highlights, and the preamble to the council's constitution. (DMM)

A survey of 759 college students (260 of whom were community service participants) and interviews with 42 community volunteers suggest that students engaged in community volunteer activities were motivated more by personal concerns, such as acquiring experience, than by broader social/political commitments. Many students derive satisfaction from…