This package of handbooks on the Far West Laboratory version of Experience-Based Career Education provides information on the distinctive features of the Far West model. Part 1 on management has four handbooks: program overview; administration (attendance, budget, insurance and liability, schedules, staff, troubleshooting and problem solving); external relations (key constituencies, assessing local external relations needs, principles of external relations, external relations strategies); and student recruitment and selection (planning and methods). Part 2 on resources consists of handbooks on the following topics: resource development (determining resource needs, identifying potential resource sites, recruitment, sample resource guides, resource support, resource information system); a guide for resource persons; and package development (package career/subject areas, package development, package use, formative evaluation and revision). (A package is not curriculum, but rather a structure within which individualized curriculum can be planned and carried out in the form of projects.) Part 3 has three handbooks: guidance and instruction: orientation (planning the orientation, suggested activities, orientation workshops); learning coordination (role of the learning coordinator, entry assessment, program planning, advisory groups and project seminars, progress monitoring, credit assignment); and supplementary curriculum (what it is, how to set it up, how to coordinate it). Part 4 contains five project planning packages on commerce, communications and media, life science, physical science, and social science. Each has these components: project ideas, careers to explore, how to plan and complete a project, project seminars, using the package goals, package goals, goal checklist, course equivalencies, sample projects, and resources. Each part contains a bibliography. (YLB)