This first volume of a three-volume final report describes the activities of a 3-year project to design, develop, and implement a comprehensive delivery system to meet the career-related information, guidance, and referral needs of home-based adults, those 16 and older neither working nor attending school on a full-time basis. The volume begins with a brief history of the model, tracing the project's evolution through the various stages of development and describing major events related to the process of planning, operating, and evaluating the program. The next section describes the major activities and accomplishments of each of the model's five major components: (1) Outreach, which used mass media and other approaches to attract clients, (2) counseling, which provided career information, guidance, and referral by telephone using paraprofessional counselors, (3) the resource center, which collected and disseminated career-related materials for project staff, clients, and the community, (4) the information unit, which developed special directories and materials which supported the counseling process and could be sent to clients, and (5) research and evaluation, which provided project staff with feedback about the clients and the operation of the program. A third section describes the characteristics of the pilot site in Providence, Rhode Island, and how the project interacted with the community including its role in local adaptation after the research and development phase. The final section discusses the project's efforts to share its experiences and findings with potential adaptors of the model and other interested persons outside Rhode Island. (Volume 2 presents research and evaluation findings with primary focus on home-based adults who used the career counseling service. Volume 3 consists of appendixes.) (TA)