Activity within the feminist movement, while greatly productive and involving many women, offers limited career opportunities in a paid capacity. However, for women who are trained in speech communication but who do not want to teach, Commissions on the Status of Women (state and county) do provide some paid employment utilizing speech skills in…

As Jewish leadership began to study the numerous facets of the Jewish poverty problem, it became evident that a cooperative, coordinated communal activity was essential. With an initial grant of 40,000 dollars from the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York, the Metropolitan New York Coordinating Council on Jewish Poverty became a…

In this booklet, the author describes both the changing role of the school superintendent and nine ways in which today's administrators differ from their predecessors. He also discusses the role of the school attorney (1) as an advisor at law, (2) as a counselor on governance, and (3) as an attorney in litigation. (JF)

Designed to assist distributive education teacher-coordinators in developing more comprehensive programs by expanding their resource potential, this manual contains a compilation of the objectives, organizational structure, area of community involvement, and suggested innovations applicable to distributive education for eight local, regional, and…

Although Neighborhood Youth Corps (NYC) training is conducted either in NYC centers, governmental and non-profit agencies or private industry, there is no commitment for employment after training. The Mobilization for Youth-Experimental Manpower Laboratory (MFY-EML) is exploring the feasibility of linking NYC to other government manpower training…

Data collected via a Wisconsin statewide survey of randomly selected adults (N=548) were used to test the hypothesis that size of place is inversely related to community attachment in an ideational sense and that size of place has no clear association with participatory measures of attachment (i.e., contrary to the "linear development"…

An essential for public relations is a combination of marketing techniques and an understanding of the community in its social, economic, political, and geographic aspects. Reaching disadvantaged clientele requires the use of community agencies and development of specialized programs. (RT)

Focuses on one two-year college's (School of Allied Health Technologies, State University of New York at Alfred, New York) activities in assisting health related facilities to meet their continuing education needs. (TA)

Describes the support given by a Miami (Florida) area chamber of commerce to a group of junior high school students starting a school-based junior chamber of commerce. Visits by chamber members to the school and by students to chamber meetings and local businesses were part of the program. (PGD)

This article takes a look at community development training during the past 10 years, assesses where it is today, indicates some possible future trends and, finally, proposes some necessary plans for the future. (WL)

This article can be used by teachers and administrators to survey agencies that make their clinical facilities available to health occupations programs. (Editor/HD)

Many members of the Hispanic community are separated from the larger community by language barriers and different cultures and belief systems. These factors can affect Hispanic Americans' ability to seek and gain access to the health care system. The Program To Address Sociocultural Barriers to Health Care in the Hispanic Community, known as…

This study investigated community organizing for school reform in eight urban sites. The organizing involved intentional building of power among parents, youth, and community residents in low-income communities of color. Researchers surveyed 66 organizing groups and interviewed a subgroup of organizations. Overall, most groups defined their…

The Urban University and Neighborhood Network, a group dedicated to bringing together Ohio's urban universities and neighborhood-based organizations (NBOs), has been studying NBO access to the Internet. Of 189 Ohio NBOs responding to a survey, only 3 have full access to the Internet. The small size and small budget of many of the state's NBOs…

In Ontario the truant officer has been replaced by the Attendance Counselor who works with students, parents, the educational system, and the community. Truancy is a symptom of many social and psychological problems--economic deprivation, social and family problems, emotional disturbance, etc. The Attendance Counselor must refer those students…