TEACHER, PRINCIPALS, GUIDANCE SPECIALISTS, COMMUNITY LEADERS, AND UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS WERE BROUGHT TOGETHER AT A CONFERENCE ON GUIDANCE OF DISADVANTAGED YOUTH. THE CONFERENCE WAS GUIDED BY THE PROGRESS OF THE YEAR-OLD "PROJECT BEACON" WHICH SOUGHT TO INTRODUCE WITHIN THE AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM A PERMANENT CORPS OF…

A 1ST-YEAR EVALUATION OF OUTREACH COUNSELING IN FOUR POVERTY AREAS OF MINNEAPOLIS IS PRESENTED. ONE COUNSELOR AND ONE CLERK WERE PLACED IN EACH OF THREE SCHOOLS TO WORK WITH GRADUATES AND DROPOUTS OF THE CLASS OF 1965 AND WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS OR INSTITUTIONS SEEKING HELP. THE COUNSELOR'S ACTIVITIES INCLUDED CONTACTS WITH THE INDIVIDUAL STUDENTS…

This study of women's correctional programs identifies programs and services for women incarcerated in jails and prisons, and also outlines the range and types of community-based programs available to them. In addition it also profiles the typical women inmate, providing information on the age distribution, marital status, number of children,…

The feasibility of an educational park for a school district in Arkansas is examined. A brief introduction defines the educational park idea and sketches its background. Advantages and disadvantages are cited as are the evaluative criteria employed. The research design and its results are stated, and the phases of the proposed development…

Urban colleges and universities are reassessing their purposes and roles in American life in an era when they are increasingly challenged by social change. The modern university finds that it will be necessary to involve itself more actively in social participation. This outlook will require curriculum changes, enhancing the otherwise traditional…

Reported are the results of five separate surveys to identify needs and assess status of leisure services to special populations in Oregon. An introductory chapter contains a summary of findings and recommendations and four succeeding chapters present survey information regarding services to the handicapped provided in hospitals and institutions,…

The major responsibility of this workshop on nonformal education is to establish some prototypes of community training activities which will coordinate with the agricultural and health components of Ethiopia's Fourth Five Year Plan for rural development and which can later be reproduced in the countryside. Linking education to overall development…

Four environmental education booklets presented in this document comprise the fourth volume of the environmental series developed by community groups around the Tallahassee Junior Museum and its pioneer farm. The focus of the document is on ways to environmental education. Part one presents a mini-history of Tallahassee, its origin, inhabitants,…

This thirty-eighth inservice training conference for clergymen and lay leaders in the rural areas of Illinois focuses on providing information in order that rural clergy might have a better basis for an understanding of the context of the rural community, of current developments and trends taking place, of the impact of these trends on people and…

Completed by a WICHE intern as part of an effort to bring together community organizations with institutions of higher education, the report compiles and assesses the educational program presently offered by the Grand Junction Historical Museum and Institute of Western Colorado. A major objective was to help the museum develop a program to change…

The prime purpose of this document on Alberta, Canada's project SEARCH (Selection of Educational Alternatives for Rural Change) was that of acquainting the interested reader with the project. The SEARCH program, which evolved through the felt need to improve rural education, had 2 major objectives: to select and field test promising innovations…

The handbook contains general information about adult basic education (ABE) and publicity for programs in the Providence School Department in particular, complete with materials used for recruitment via posters, newspaper articles, radio, television, and mailed flyers. Problems and causes of adult illiteracy are briefly discussed followed by ABE…

The paper presents short descriptions and an existing program example for 29 innovations in the personnel services. The topics chosen as innovations represent a wide range of concerns of counselors and other pupil personnel workers in various educational levels. (Author)

The Far West Laboratory Model (Far West School) in downtown Oakland, California, an employer-based career education program of experiential learning, has focused on the developmental issues of how high school academic requirements and career exploration in the community can be integrated into a common set of learning activities, and the virtues…

Discussed in general terms are various impediments to provision of services to the mentally handicapped through community mental health programs. The authors first state the most community health programs are ineffective in that they essentially ignore planning and provision of services to mentally handicapped persons. Then the authors attempt to…