This survey of suicide prevention and crisis services around the world provides evidence of a trend toward a broadening range of services, a more active case-finding approach, greater visibility, increased integration into the community care system, and creative leadership by newer and smaller centers as well as the well-established ones. (Author)

Describes the role of the Monroe County Public Library in Bloomington, Indiana, in the development of a Community Access Channel through a local cable television (CATV) franchise. The services offered on the channel, the resources required, and the potential of the channel as a community communications resource are outlined. (JL)

The article summarizes the problems reported by more than 2,000 administrators of community residential facilities for the retarded into five basic areas: (1) personnel management, (2) funding, (3) services, (4) interagency relations, and (5) administrative problems. (Author/PHR)

Reports the methodology and findings of a statistical study undertaken to determine the selected institutional characteristics associated with the development of community services in Florida, Maryland, and Virginia community colleges, and the possible use of these characteristics as universal predictors of community service development. (JP)

Presents a procedure whereby existing data can be utilized in placing needs of the elderly in priority ranking. A basic technique developed by HEW was employed. Various strengths and weaknesses are noted. Suggestions are made for utilization of the method presented by social service planning agencies. (Author)

Addresses questions to deans of community services related to faculty, instructional and organizational development. Recommends 11 strategies for improving instruction through faculty orientations, faculty task forces, teacher resource centers, faculty survival guides, student service centers, mission and management councils, division newsletters,…

Examines the liaisons and relationships among libraries and the elderly, and those libraries and other community agencies working for the benefit of the elderly. (FM)

Nutrition programs for the elderly, particularly those funded Federally, are reviewed with focus on career opportunities for administrators, dietitians, and nutritionists, and others. (JT)

Individual Program Plans (n=163) from adults with developmental disabilities receiving community living support services in Australia were analyzed. While plans prepared by nongovernmental agencies were generally superior to governmental agency plans, the average level of plan presentation was poor. Only 14% of the plans offered any criterion for…

Data from the study, Transition Research on Adjudicated Youth in Community Settings, were used to examine community integration outcomes for the subgroup of adolescent fathers. Juvenile offenders who were fathers were found to return to the correctional system at a higher rate than nonfathers, but fathers who remained in the community were…

Discusses the specific and complex outcomes of community service participation in higher education. Argues that support for community service learning is likely to wane if long-standing narrow beliefs about cognition are not challenged; educators need to think more holistically about what constitutes an educated person. (Contains 22 references.)…

Assessed the service needs of HIV-affected families in an inner city African American community with a high HIV/AIDS seroprevalence. Data from focus group interviews indicated a lack of family-sensitive HIV/AIDS community services. Participants noted the problem with stigma and identified community awareness and education as critical to serving…

A study tested five propositions: citizens in consolidated governments are less informed about government services than those in fragmented systems; consolidated citizens are less efficacious; larger consolidated governments have less citizen participation; consolidated citizens are more dissatisfied; and competition among fragmented systems…

Used medico-social analytic model to compare five long-term care programs: Skilled Nursing Facility-Intermediate Care Facility (SNF-ICF) homes, ICF homes, foster homes, day hospitals, and home care. Identified similarities and differences among programs. Preliminary findings suggest that model is useful in the evaluation and design of long-term…

Recent research on the causes of hypertension could influence the care given by sports medicine physicians to Black patients in general, and to Black athletes in particular. (JD)