The increase in types and numbers of training programs for paraprofessional mental health workers may result in the development of consortium arrangements among training programs at all levels. The topics presented in this document deal with areas of common interest to those involved in such programs. They are: (1) new directions for community college mental health worker programs including peer counseling; (2) behavior modification and the paraprofessional in human service occupations; (3) requirements and techniques for helping people; (4) research skills for mental health workers; (5) poverty research and the poverty community; (6) inquiry as research; and (7) discontinuities in occupational mobility in the mental health related professions. (RN)