Background: Strength training (ST) is an important health behavior for aging women; it helps maintain strength and function and reduces risk for chronic diseases. This study assessed change in physical fitness following participation in a ST program implemented and evaluated by community leaders. Method: The StrongWomen Program is a nationally…

Presents a case study of an innovative school-based health and mental-health project that prevents early school failure. Attributes program success to social work development of broad-based partnerships involving families, schools, communities, and public-policy officials. Describes school/family partnerships that form the core of the model. (RJM)

Discusses the rationale behind the movement to link services to schools through school-linked, family resource centers. Describes several exemplary program, already developed, and outlines the promise this movement holds as a major social work strategy for revitalizing communities. Focuses on parental involvement, skill development, and how to…

AN EXPERIMENT WAS CONDUCTED IN MOBILIZING COLLEGE STUDENTS FOR SUMMER ASSISTANCE IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY PROGRAMS. APPROXIMATELY 100 STUDENT VOLUNTEERS WERE CHOSEN TO PARTICIPATE ON THE BASES OF THEIR STABILITY, MATURITY, ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE, AND DEDICATION. THEY WERE PLACED IN SIX AREAS WHERE COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION…

A community recreation program for Spanish speaking migrant children in Dade County, Florida, is described. (JD)

List of plays scheduled at community theatres for the 1974-75 season. (CH)

The workbook is intended to help people working on a community level to secure services for handicapped children. It assumes that the reader already has gathered data to determine gaps in the community's existing service system and that a list of needed services has been identified and prioritized. An introductory section examines what is meant by…

The aftercare program described in this article provides a community treatment program for adult psychiatric clients that aims at facilitating their adequate and independent adjustment to the community. (Author/JA)

The Project is committed to the philosophy that career education should be a total educational endeavor for the community. It is an instructional, counseling, guidance, and placement program which begins at the preschool level and extends through community college and adult education. (AG)

A real community program needs not only programs but a new perspective on the total program of the library aimed at joining the theoretical to the practical, with a shift in accent to the needs of the patron as an individual. (Author/PF)

The second of three documents of a project designed to help North Carolina counties plan community based status offender programs presents a general planning model. An overview traces five steps of the planning decision process, from determining the importance of status offender needs to the county to making program funding decisions based on…

TO COMBAT POVERTY IN THE OZARKS, A TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM IS RECOMMENDED. IT INVOLVES A COMMUNITY EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SECTION SETTING UP A CURRICULUM INVOLVING PROBLEMS OF EDUCATION, HEALTH, COMMUNITY, WELFARE, RECREATION, AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES. KEY LEADERS SHOULD CONFER OFTEN ABOUT PROBLEMS IN THEIR COUNTIES. A REVITALIZED…

In 1972, OE sought a means whereby communities might be helped to mobilize their own financial and human resources to respond effectively to their own drug problems and perhaps provide mutual help to one another. The search for a feasible strategy led to the establishment of the Help Communities Help Themselves (HCHT) Program. The principal…