Compiled as a project of the National Resource Center on Family Based Services, this document contains an annotated directory of a representative listing of family-based services existing in 24 of the United States. (Family-based service programs provide humane, quality and cost-efficient services to families in the least restrictive environment,…

For almost 20 years, from 1917 to the 1930s, the traveling Chautauqua circuits and festivals brought education, inspiration, and entertainment to remote and not-so-remote communities. Now in the 1980s, emphasis is once more being placed on the value of local community life, on self-reliance and mutual help with respect to the social, cultural, and…

This report provides information on consumer health pilot projects completed in 1983 by two New York state public library systems, the Nioga Library System and the Onondaga County Public Library. Serving as a "how-to" guide, the report explores the rise of the public's interest in consumer health issues. Both projects explain how they established…

This publication is intended to help local school systems plan, implement, and expand programs for secondary aged handicapped students in Maine's public schools. An introductory section examines four major factors: assessment, curriculum, personal and career development, and graduation. The next section contains detailed descriptions of 10 program…

Teachers who have information about students supplied by an interdisciplinary team of specialists are better able to help students succeed in learning to read. (JH)

Reports on one effort to help teachers utilize their local community resources in the educational programs of the local schools. From a list of over 400 participating business and industrial firms and individuals, teachers receive only those names for which they have immediate curricular need. (Author/WM)

Strategies for recruiting physicians to rural Kentucky communities are presented in broad outlines that would also be applicable to other rural communities looking for physicians. After documenting the shortage and maldistribution of physicians in rural America, the factors are described which influence a physician's choice of place to locate--his…

Describes an environmental education curriculum for Aboriginies of the Arnhem Land Reserve which takes into account the needs of the students, the local environment and the resources of the local community. (BR)

The purpose of this paper was to share a school administrative staff's "grass roots" experience in managing an intersession program - the educational term commonly assigned to mini-vacation periods - with others who are or may be facing such a challenge. (Author/RK)

Presented at the 41st Annual Meeting of the American School Health Association and the 95th Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association, Miami Beach, Florida, October 23, 1967.

This interim evaluation report of the St. Louis, Missouri Urban Consumer Education Project assesses program effectiveness in terms of teacher training and teacher knowledge of consumer basics, community resource participation, and student and teacher knowledge. The project was designed to teach fifth grade students their rights and…

This booklet provides a guide to archival and library collections related to the history of Hungarians in Pittsburgh and western Pennsylvania. Information was obtained from churches, clubs, cultural and civic organizations, fraternal associations, libraries, special collections, and private collections. Descriptions of the holdings of 13…

Information from six documents produced by experts to compare and analyze the 21 local and community media experiments they had visited in six countries in 1978 and 1979 is consolidated in this report. This information illustrates the variety of ways that different countries handle local media, and examines the role that such media can play either…

The report describes the Pro-Child Project, a program designed to reduce the incidence of child abuse and neglect in Arlington County, Virginia. Program objectives are noted to include public awareness development, identification and treatment of abusive and neglectful families, and coordination and expansion of community resources. Sections cover…

The report describes the design of a community development model for child abuse and neglect which used resources already existing in a rural area. The first section presents basic generalizations about rural areas, services, and rural human services professionals. Section II presents working papers, definitions, and concepts used in the project.…