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The purpose of this paper is to provide an alternative operationalization of amenities that does not privilege certain kinds of natural resources and climatic conditions and that can be used for assessing the quality of life in small towns. The amenity inventory presented here extends previous literature by including a broad range of amenities…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Municipalities, Quality of Life, School Community Relationship
Klaiman, Tamar; O'Connell, Katherine; Stoto, Michael A. – Journal of School Health, 2014
Background: The 2009 H1N1 vaccination campaign was the largest in US history. State health departments received vaccines from the federal government and sent them to local health departments (LHDs) who were responsible for getting vaccines to the public. Many LHD's used school-based clinics to ensure children were the first to receive limited…
Descriptors: Immunization Programs, Diseases, Clinics, Community Health Services
Beach, J. M. – Stylus Publishing, LLC, 2011
Can the U.S. keep its dominant economic position in the world economy with only 30% of its population holding bachelor's degrees? If the majority of U.S. citizens lack a higher education, can the U.S. live up to its democratic principles and preserve its political institutions? These questions raise the critical issue of access to higher…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Community Services, Higher Education, Community Colleges
Low, John – Adults Learning, 2011
Hardly anyone can have failed to pick up on the recent flurry of stories in the national press about the Big Society, sparked off by Dame Elisabeth Hoodless's remarks that funds for volunteers are disappearing at an alarming rate, and that this is undermining the very idea of a "Big Society". At the same time, under the government's…
Descriptors: Community Services, Voluntary Agencies, Volunteers, Community Development
Wolfensberger, Wolf – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2011
In this two-part series of articles, it is predicted that institutions will be phased out because of five trends: development of nonresidential community services; new conceptualizations of and attitudes toward residential services: increased usage of individual rather than group residential placements; provision of small, specialized group…
Descriptors: Residential Institutions, Community Services, Attitude Change, Incidence
Dang, Michelle T. – Journal of School Nursing, 2010
A significant number of children in the United States have developmental disabilities. Historically, many children with developmental disabilities were institutionalized and rarely seen in public. Currently, children with developmental disabilities are entitled to education and health-related support services that permit them access to public…
Descriptors: Community Services, School Nurses, Developmental Disabilities, Nursing
Protheroe, Nancy – Principal, 2010
Full-service community schools do more than educate; they partner with the community to provide the supports and services that students and families need through one comprehensive, coordinated effort. By offering services on-site, full-service schools can help eliminate some barriers that families face such as problems with transportation, lack of…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Parent Participation, Barriers, Educational Planning
Wilson, Terry; Moore, Kelli Cole – College and University, 2010
Twenty-seven five-year-olds walk into kindergarten on the first day of school in southeastern Kentucky. On average, nine of those children live in poverty, two were born to mothers who did not complete high school, two were removed from their homes because of abuse or neglect, and fourteen are from single-parent homes: this according to statistics…
Descriptors: Extension Agents, Quality of Life, Poverty Programs, School Community Programs
Download full textYu, Serena; Bretherton, Tanya; Schutz, Hanna – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
This is a report of the first year of a three-year project entitled "Vocations: the link between post-compulsory education and the labour market." The project's aim is to research how pathways can be improved within education, within work, and between education and work. There are three strands in the project; the first strand is…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Postsecondary Education, Financial Services, Vocational Education
Molsted, Stig; Tribler, Jane; Poulsen, Peter B.; Snorgaard, Ole – Health Education Research, 2012
The worldwide epidemic of Type 2 diabetes necessitates evidence-based self-management education programmes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects and costs of an empowerment-based structured diabetes self-management education programme in an unselected group of patients with Type 2 diabetes. Seven hundred and two patients…
Descriptors: Investigations, Diabetes, Patients, Health Education
Siller, Michael; Morgan, Lindee; Turner-Brown, Lauren; Baggett, Kathleen M.; Baranek, Grace T.; Brian, Jessica; Bryson, Susan E.; Carter, Alice S.; Crais, Elizabeth R.; Estes, Annette; Kasari, Connie; Landa, Rebecca J.; Lord, Catherine; Messinger, Daniel S.; Mundy, Peter; Odom, Samuel L.; Reznick, J. Steven; Roberts, Wendy; Rogers, Sally J.; Schertz, Hannah H.; Smith, Isabel M.; Stone, Wendy L.; Watson, Linda R.; Wetherby, Amy M.; Yoder, Paul J.; Zwaigenbaum, Lonnie – Journal of Early Intervention, 2013
Given recent advances in science, policy, and practice of early identification in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), questions about the effectiveness of early intervention have far-reaching service and policy implications. However, rigorous research evaluating the efficacy and effectiveness of intervention programs for toddlers with ASD faces a…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Intervention, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Autism
Rubin, Donald L.; Matthews, Paul H. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2013
For international service-learning to thrive, it must document student learning outcomes that accrue to participants. The approaches to international service-learning assessment must be compelling to a variety of stakeholders. Recent large-scale projects in study abroad learning outcomes assessment--including the Georgia Learning Outcomes of…
Descriptors: Community Services, Global Approach, Study Abroad, Foreign Countries
Freadling, Amy H.; Foss-Kelly, Louisa L. – Counselor Education and Supervision, 2014
This phenomenological study explored 6 new counselors' experiences working in community mental health centers and their experiences of the Council for Accreditation of Counseling and Related Educational Programs-accredited training received in preparation for such work. Three themes from the interviews were identified to provide implications…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Counselor Attitudes, Phenomenology, Mental Health Programs
George Lucas Educational Foundation, 2010
During the rush of the school year, free time is an all-too-scarce commodity for busy teachers. Summer's another story. More relaxed schedules allow a little breathing room to reflect, collaborate, plan ahead--or just unwind. The time off is all important for helping teachers get reinvigorated and ready for the new school year. Whether your summer…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Teachers, Astronomy, Social Networks
Laws, Jason; Parish, Susan L.; Scheyett, Anna M.; Egan, Christopher – Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 2010
We examine how well schools of social work prepare students to work with people with developmental disabilities (DD). Using websites of 50 U.S. schools of social work, we examine their curricula to determine the number and nature of disability studies courses. We examine tenure-line faculty to identify potential for current staff to expand DD…
Descriptors: Tenure, Developmental Disabilities, Social Work, Caseworkers
