Describes the Housebound Learners Project, a London-area program using volunteer tutors to bring adult education to homebound persons. Discusses course and topic selection and outreach in minority communities. (SK)

Describes Cheney's successful use of volunteers in parks and recreation programs. They raised funds, worked for park maintenance and improvement, and organized sports programs and special events. Reports survey results from Washington communities on voluntary efforts of fraternal and social organizations, businesses, and senior and youth groups.…

Discusses various youth service proposals before Congress, including the Nunn-Curdy bill and those by Edward M. Kennedy and Claiborne Pell. AASA's Committee on Federal Policy and Legislation will oppose any national youth service program that holds students hostage by mandating civilian or military service for college student aid applicants. (MLH)

Describes the Host Homes and Youth Center run by the Community Advocacy Council in Carrollton, Texas. The homes serve as places where troubled youth can go when there is trouble in their homes. The center provides counseling to both young people and their families. Families volunteer to serve as hosts. (SKC)

Recruited families of residents of dementia unit of nursing home to lead programs and activities. Found family volunteers complemented staff efforts to provide a varied and enriched environment for the residents and volunteers felt the experience was an extension of their continuing involvement. (Author/ABL)

Schools enjoying strong parental support have parental-involvement programs in place and actively seek to involve parents. Such schools usually have a staff member, frequently a parent, whose task is to establish, manage, and maintain successful engagements among individuals, groups of parents, and the school. Darien, Connecticut's innovative high…

In Tel Aviv, 11 older volunteers were trained in survey techniques and interviewed frail elderly persons. High interrater correspondence and consistency of responses were indications of older interviewers' competence; they had greater insight and understanding of their respondents' situations. (SK)

Compared older adults who volunteered to work for community organization at office or in adult day care center on social-psychological and demographic predictors. Found that day care center volunteers were higher than office volunteers on sympathy whereas office volunteers were higher than day care center volunteers on educational attainment,…

A project at Denman College (Great Britain) to help volunteers document their community work to get credit for a diploma encountered problems in translating community work into formalized academic definitions and in the range of skill levels among volunteers. (SK)

Although parent involvement is essential, state education agencies have provided little financial support for staff and programs needed to improve school-family connections. This article discusses elements of good parent involvement programs and describes several successful examples. Advice is given for creating and managing school volunteer…

Principals can provide overworked staff with some valuable assistance by tapping a frequently overlooked source--high school students. In 1989, a New York district created an innovative program called Students Assisting Students (SAS). These students volunteer as tutors in the schools they once attended. The program benefits all participants. (MLH)

Examined relationship between early career orientation and interest in volunteer work. Entering college students (n=858) completed questionnaires on background, attitudes, and expectations, and Campus Involvement Interest Survey. Results revealed that, although volunteer work can serve as resource for career exploration and job experience, option…

The Communities in Crisis project in Manchester, England, trains volunteers to undertake community improvement. The activities of a tenants' and residents' association illustrate the empowerment through education of individuals as community activists. (SK)

Examined whether and by what means inmates participating in a voluntary counseling program at Hamilton, Alabama, Correctional Facility could be distinguished from those not volunteering for counseling. Results indicated it was possible to distinguish these two group based on Intelligence Quotient, certain demographic factors, two personality…

Examined role of prayer in personal and professional lives of caregivers to dying. Background questionnaires were completed by 78 counselors, doctors, nurses, and volunteers associated with hospice programs. Interviews were conducted with 24 of these subjects. Most caregivers described themselves as very religious; typical caregiver made frequent…