This report explores the perspectives, issues, and capacity building needs of 51 community organizations that are fighting for better public schools nationwide. It analyzes a series of interviews conducted between July 2000 and March 2002. The interviews involved organizers, senior staff, and parent leaders. Overall, respondents described a range…

This Spanish-language videotape provides a live, interactive teleconference where renowned national experts, local educators, and community leaders share ideas on how to improve schools. It focuses on establishing partnerships with faith-based and community organizations to create stronger schools. The audience includes parents, teachers, school…

Although increasing numbers of organizations are speaking out on behalf of children, politicians need to hear first-hand from families about their concerns for their children. This book provides parents and others with skills necessary to organize effectively and speak out on issues that affect children at home, at school, and in the broader…

The authors discuss trends affecting community sponsored agencies counseling persons with work-related problems. They cite qualifications and functions of counselors in these agencies. Opportunities for expansion in this area will be limited, they say, in the early 1970's and most openings will be due to replacements. For the long run they predict…

Suggests that in deciding what should be written into the franchise of cable television and to whom it should be given, local groups can have their first and perhaps greatest influence over the way cable will affect their community. (JM)

An unusual poverty immersion program that teaches what can't be taught in a classroom. (Editor)

Suggests emerging multi-roles for home economics teachers as they work with other groups and individuals within the school and community. (Editor)

The new role for the nonprofessional Puerto Rican court workers, who represented Puerto Rican youths at court, comprised four major activities: (1) case finding, (2) cross cultural interpretation, (3) representing the Puerto Rican social environment, and (4) acting as a bridgeman between the Puerto Rican community and New York City agencies.…

Action to improve family life did not involve a new technique but a recognition of the need to modernize old principles and programs and to develop new ones. Ideas about personnel, materials, organizational structure and emphases were revised. Involvement of the federal government was a major catalyst. (Author)

It is important that nurses, particularly those who consider themselves community health nursing specialists, assign a high priority to participation in the formation of health policy and broader public policy. To put subsequent remarks about policy into perspective, it is useful to consider the case for seeing community health nursing as…

A switchover by any government to a more integrated, community-based approach to rural development will inevitably require the recruitment, training, and effective "backstopping" of large numbers of front-line workers. (SSH)

This speech, given by the director of the Community Relations Service of the U.S. Department of Justice at the annual meeting of the National Association of Human Rights Workers, urges community groups to continue their efforts in the area of intergroup relations in order to battle recent upsurges of racism. (Author/GPM)

Reexamines a model of successive stages of urban ethnic institutional development with particular reference to Los Angeles' Indian community. Calls attention to a new level of institutional development within the urban Indian community. Assesses the effect of national policy on local ethnic groups and the development of their institutions.…

Presents six steps for organizing community forum programs: establish forum steering committees; enlist community organization cosponsors; involve local media; develop related activities and community events; provide for panelist and moderator practice sessions; and develop forum promotional plans. Includes action steps for the forum coordinator.…

The author argues that direct citizen participation cannot influence educational policy or restore the power of lay boards in public education. Asserting that more can be accomplished by a technically trained organization working within the bureaucracy, he cites the accomplishments of the Education Clearinghouse, a nonprofit group of…