Part of a series of Rural Network monographs concerning rural service delivery to young handicapped children and their families, this collection of four papers identifies problems inherent in finding appropriate personnel to work in rural areas, suggests strategies for retaining staff, and describes three distinctly different training programs illustrating solutions to the problems. The three programs apply to different target audiences, providing a comprehensive picture of ways to better achieve quality personnel to serve the handicapped. The programs described are: the Western Illinois University 0-6 Early Childhood Education Personnel Preparation Project; the Family, Infant and Toddler Project at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee; DEBT (Developmental Education Birth to Two) Outreach Training Staff (D.O.T.S.) Program. The papers included are: "Recruitment and Retention of Personnel in Rural Areas" (Castro), "Approach for Training Early Childhood Teachers: WIU 0-6 Early Childhood Handicapped Personnel Training Project" (Hutinger), "An Inservice Training Program for Rural Area Professionals Concerned with Early Childhood Special Education" (Davis and Porter), and "Training Rural Volunteers to Deliver Services to Handicapped Infants: The D.O.T.S. Approach" (Galey, Garner, Pillans, and Solomon). (NEC)