Environmental health personnel in San Bernardino County, California have moved from the traditional position under a medical public health officer to a position in county government. This reorganization has led to more positive recognition for sanitarians, increased benefits to the public, and improved coordination with other departments. (BT)

The article discusses the community "team" approach through the objectives of the Community Development Project developed by John Benington. (BP)

At Moraine Valley Community College (Illinois), a chain of events, programs, activities, and services has linked the college and community in such areas as fine arts, ethnic groups, public services, community action, community service, and community education. (Author/NHM)

The four papers in a symposium on the cost effectiveness of community schools are presented here, with a brief introduction. The first paper outlines the procedures necessary for an analysis of cost-effectiveness and identifies the problems in applying this analysis to community schools, including variable selection and measurement and value…

This personnel involvement evaluation training model facilitated communication, participation, and involvement of a highly diverse multidisciplinary group. This group consisted of developmental psychologists, educational psychologists, early childhood educators, home economists, day-care specialists, people from the welfare department, and…

THIS BOOKLET CONTAINS CHAPTERS ON IDENTIFYING THE HANDICAPPED, PLANNING FOR THE HANDICAPPED, THE ROLES OF PARENTS AND TEACHERS, ENRICHMENT OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS THROUGH THE ARTS, VOCATIONAL PLANNING, AND SOURCES OF HELP FOR THE HANDICAPPED. APPENDIXES PROVIDE--(1) GENERAL CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION AND DEFINITIONS OF VARIOUS HANDICAPPING…

PROGRESSIVE URBANIZATION AND INDUSTRIALIZATION HAVE RESULTED IN HIGHER JUVENILE DELINQUENCY RATES, AND WHILE THE MIGRATION FROM RURAL TO URBAN AREAS SEEMS TO BE STABILIZING, DELINQUENCY HAS BEEN AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE MORE OF A PROBLEM IN URBAN THAN RURAL AREAS. IN MANY CASES RURAL AREAS ARE CONFRONTED WITH A LACK OF PROPER DETENTION FACILITIES…

THE CONCEPT OF COMMUNITY SERVICE AFFECTS THE CHARACTER OF THE WHOLE UNIVERSITY--THE NUMBER AND KIND OF STUDENTS, VARIETY OF FACULTIES, FOCUS OF RESEARCH PROGRAMS, AND THE PACE AND NATURE OF THE UNIVERSITY'S GROWTH. TRADITIONAL GERMAN EMPHASIS ON RESEARCH AND GRADUATE WORK AND BRITISH EMPHASIS ON THE STUDENT AND TEACHING, WHILE STILL EVIDENT IN THE…

WEST FRESNO WAS A TYPICAL DEPRESSED URBAN AREA WITH HOUSING AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS. ADDED TO THESE WERE CERTAIN SOCIAL FRICTIONS BETWEEN THE TWO MINORITY GROUPS OF THE AREAS, NEGROES AND MEXICANS. THE OBJECTIVES OF FRESNO'S PILOT MCATEER PROJECT WERE (1) TO DEVELOP AN INSERVICE PROGRAM PROMOTING TEACHER UNDERSTANDING OF THE CULTURALLY DIVERSE…

Questionnaires on the experiences of families of developmentally disabled children were completed by 330 families. Data are reported on parent and child characteristics, utilization of services, attitudes toward special education, perceptions of social distance, and perceptions of unmet service needs. Among results discussed is that use of…

THE STATE OF WASHINGTON PLAN FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE FEDERAL GRANT PROGRAM UNDER TITLE 1 OF THE HIGHER EDUCATION ACT OF 1965 OUTLINES THE ORGANIZATION AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS OF THE PLANNING AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS AGENCY (INTENDED AS THE SOLE TITLE 1 ADMINISTRATIVE BODY IN THE STATE), GUIDELINES FOR SELECTING COMMUNITY PROBLEMS OR…

This document describes a social studies unit, primarily composed of various field trips and subsequent classwork related thereto, for the first grade child. It is divided into four sections: (1) community helpers, (2) the trip to the zoo, (3) the train trip, and (4) a trip to a dairy farm. The document illustrates several trips the children of a…

Returns from 53 of 88 junior colleges surveyed concerning their community service programs showed the following: (1) community service functions are typically the responsibility of an executive officer who reports to the president or other college administrator; (2) categories of community service programs are instructional (adult education,…

The ideal of liberal learning should be bonded with a sense of the utilitarian, the professional. Modern students call not for a traditional liberal learning but a learning directed to action, to improving the social order and the environment. Colleges can achieve a new synthesis of liberal and professional learning by making graduate and…

Phase II of the report on the problem outlined in Phase I deals with specific recommendations for expanding and improving the extension and public service functions of the University of Illinois. To be effective, the university needs a master plan in which the four essential ingredients must be (1) broad, strong and explicit policy commitments by…