The action evaluation process at a mediation agency in Dayton, Ohio, that offers the services of trained volunteers is described. Action evaluation is an integrated research and intervention methodology for helping to define, promote, and assess success in an endeavor, while using evaluation as a bridge between research and practice in ways that…

Article discusses the implications of school volunteer programs in terms of public relations. (GB)

Comparisons between volunteer telephone counselors and nonvolunteer college students were made on several psychological tests: the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale, the Personal Orientation Inventory, and the Self-Disclosure Questionnaire. In their self-concepts, the groups differed only in moral-ethical self perceptions. The counselors' scores…

The fact that the college had no money to pay for the program, which was designed to improve physical liabilities and self confidence of handicapped children, failed to discourage the author, the president of the Essex Community College (Maryland). (Editor/RK)

Discussed a program, designed to provide a meaningful life for senior citizens through volunteer service to the community. (Author/RK)

This report on the use of paraprofessionals in the counseling center suggests that the undergraduate paraprofessional may be the most effective agent for the delivery of certain student services. (JC)

Actual appeals for help were used as stimuli to determine behavioral correlates of different attitudes toward the disabled held by persons in different occupational groups. Rates of those volunteering assistance showed students who had previous experience in contacts with disabled persons responding at a higher rate than those with no previous…

The principal of DeLand (Florida) Junior High School describes a system which has been successful in overcoming apathy toward his student council. (Editor)

Questionnaires were completed by 46 attendants on the work habits of 301 student helpers working with severely mentally handicapped persons. (Author)

Described are an adult education class for visually handicapped prison inmates and a program in which volunteer inmates transcribed books and educational materials for the visually handicapped. (GW)

Author discusses attitudes and problems he encountered when a parental assistance program was initiated in his school. (RB)

This article summarizes the major provisions of the draft law as they pertain to the new registrant, explains the importance of the registrant's being as cognizant as possible of his rights and obligations under the law, and describes how a counselor may help a young man obtain all the benefits to which he is entitled. (Author)

Some basic strategies and procedures that provide a step-by-step annual fund plan are reviewed. This approach divides goals into revenue targets for each annual fund program and links program success to budget and staff requirements. (MLW)