This paper suggests that expanded student services are an essential activity program of any comprehensive, community-based institution and that their committments go far beyond just on-campus students. This broader base of activity will make the college relevant to the real life of students and community. (MJK)

Results indicated that the 959 blacks compared to a 10 percent random sample of 1,190 whites (a) represented a different group of clients in demographic characteristics, (b) were no more likely to receive inferior forms of treatment programs, (c) saw paraprofessional rather than professional personnel, and (d) failed to return after the initial…

Local governments are essential to the democratic processes of the nation. Particularly in rural and other small communities, they are familiar institutions with much visibility and accessibility, promoting citizen participation and control. This guide presents an overview of the characteristics of American's small local governments. America's…

This publication aims to help families better access services for their disabled children and organize their records for maximum efficiency. The suggestions are designed to help families develop personalized local directories of services for their individualized needs. The four chapters have the following titles: "Guide to Parent Groups,""Guide to…

This community home care program for family caregivers is designed to provide information to family caregivers on ways to provide care more easily in the home by making changes in the home, and drawing on resources from outside the home. It provides guidelines for volunteer "hosts," i.e., persons who coordinate and run the course, on how to assist…

This paper identifies some of the major developments and activities in cable television in relation to education in Canada. It begins by providing a general overview of the cable industry from 1952 to 1983, including the revision of the Broadcasting Act in 1968 to give jurisdiction over the cable television industry to the newly created Canadian…

This book provides information on workplace volunteering and how employee volunteering programs operate in specific corporate cultures. Chapter 1 focuses on the rationale upon which corporate volunteer programs are constructed. The rationale's four basic components are discussed in detail: quality of life, worker participation, responding to…

The purpose of this study was to provide an overview of the problems confronting minority administrators of mental health agencies. Twenty-five minority directors of Community Mental Health Centers were given questionnaires asking for information about their backgrounds and the design, structure, and operation of their respective mental health…

The paper considers the role of program planners in ensuring community adjustment of deinstitutionalized severely mentally handicapped persons, especially in light of the provisions of the Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, which provides a waiver authority to states to increase community programs for the deinstitutionalized population. The paper…

For more than a quarter of a century, both human service agencies and religious organizations have provided for the needs of the elderly. In order to study the relationship between these groups, clergy from mainline Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish churches and synagogues (N=34) and social service agency administrators in a midwestern suburb were…

Human service professionals, lacking a viable model to incorporate primary intervention into the human service provider's role, seldom practice primary prevention. Collaboration is the most appropriate model for introducing primary prevention into a community human service delivery system. The collaboration model was applied in a midwestern…

A first grade program in career education designed to acquaint children with the various people performing community services, to help them learn the role and responsibility involved in providing these services, and to relate these aspects to pride and trust in getting a job well done. (Author/SA)

Article examined the Brookside Park Family Life Center, established by the Boston Model Cities Administration, and how it provides comprehensive health and social services to families. (RK)

Social service agencies can improve accountability to their clients in specific ways. These techniques borrow some of the language and principles of management science and can be applied successfully only if social workers accept the challenge posed by accountability and view these concepts as compatible with professional values. (Author)