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Holder, Harold D.; And Others – 1974
This manual, designed to increase citizen understanding of child advocacy, offers practical suggestions on how groups of citizens, civic clubs, and fraternal organizations can become advocates for children in a community. The booklet describes child advocacy, child service agency monitoring, and possible ways to improve community services for…
Descriptors: Accountability, Agency Role, Child Advocacy, Child Welfare
Vanecko, James J.; And Others – 1970
This is the statistical and methodological appendix to a report on the first part of a two phase community action program (CAP) research project. Construction of variables is covered, with attention to changes in income and minority group composition of social service agencies, increased interagency cooperation, publicity, scope of service, social…
Descriptors: Community Action, Decision Making, Demography, Disadvantaged
Vanecko, James J.; Jacobs, Bruce – 1970
Part of a Community Action Program (CAP) final report evaluating the effects of community action agencies (CAAs) on institutional change, these appendixes analyze various dependent and independent variables, including social services, public schools, employment, neighborhood and community political organizations, CAP pressure and impact,…
Descriptors: Budgets, Community Action, Community Centers, Community Characteristics
Bond, Emil; And Others – 1969
Objectives of this project were to identify and catalog all existing reports on contracted evaluation studies by the Community Action Program (CAP) evaluation branch and the various program offices; to analyze a sample of contracted evaluation studies in terms of their adequacy as research projects; to assess a sample of CAP inhouse evaluations;…
Descriptors: Agencies, Community Action, Disadvantaged Youth, Evaluation Criteria
Spencer, Gary – 1967
The purpose of this monograph is to introduce a series of studies dealing with the rehabilitation of socially dependent individuals in poverty settings. Four demonstration programs, located in low-income housing projects in four U.S. cities, are designed to determine the feasibility of locating on-site rehabilitation agencies in low-income housing…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Characteristics, Demonstration Programs, Dependents
Evans, Dan, Comp. – 1966
The document considers several unfortunate cycles: (1) belligerent students cause desperate teachers, who cause more belligerent students; (2) ineffective parents cause bewildered youth who never take advantage of existing opportunities and who create, in turn, more bewildered children; (3) browbeaten tenants cause callous landlords to neglect…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Children, Community Action, Community Development
McClosky, Mildred; Kleinbard, Peter – 1974
Nine programs chosen for the ways in which they involved adolescents in significant pursuits, either in solving their own problems or in helping adults solve theirs, are described. The programs serve as models for other attempts to aid adolescents toward feeling that they can make a difference in the world around them. Obstacles for youth enroute…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Action, Drug Abuse, Film Production
Ross, Peggy J. – 1974
The Food and Nutrition Program for Aged (FNPA) was established as 1 of 30 research and demonstration programs funded through the provisions of the "Older Americans Act" to promote improved nutrition among aged groups. In the first 3-year phase, the program concentrated on the delivery of nutritional services, and the development and demonstration…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community Action, Demonstration Programs, Food Service
Wirt, Frederick M., Ed. – 1971
This compilation of symposium papers on community power structure research focuses on the theme that community power structure research must shift away from case study methods and move toward aggregate data analysis. Advocating comparative analysis, seven authors present their views under the following topics: (1) Charles R. Adrian, "Several Loose…
Descriptors: City Government, Community, Community Action, Community Influence
Niemi, John A., Ed. – 1971
Some important developments affecting the use of the mass media in adult education are described in this collection of papers. A paper by Dr. George Gordon accuses educators of lacking imagination in their whole approach to adult education, especially in their use of the media. Dr. Robert Carlson's paper delineates the history of educational…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Programs, Audiovisual Aids
Schwartz, Edward – 1976
The purpose of this eight-unit course is to explore the values and issues of modern urban neighborhoods. It focuses on how community leaders can apply the broad principle of justice to problems of security, reciprocity, and fellowship that face most neighborhoods today. The course is intended for use by community leaders in building community…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Action, Community Development, Course Descriptions
Zero Population Growth, Inc., Washington, DC. – 1995
This packet of instructional materials is designed to teach teenagers about the effects of overpopulation on the world and on the individual. Information is presented in three related booklets. The first of the three parts of the "Teen Population Awareness Campaign Kit," illustrates overpopulation through profiles of teens living in…
Descriptors: Community Action, Consciousness Raising, Conservation Education, Ecology
Burnaby, Barbara – 1997
This paper presents personal reflections on factors in the preservation and stabilization of North American indigenous languages. All indigenous languages in North America are in danger of being lost. Linguistic and cultural minority communities must control the institutions that affect their lives if there is to be significant and sustainable…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Languages, Canada Natives, Change Strategies
Rogers, Mary Beth – 1990
Almost unnoticed, growing numbers of working poor people are entering politics at the community level in dozens of major cities in Texas and across the United States. These people are unusual because they view politics as a long-term process to build relationships, new institutions, and humane communities. This book tells the story of a new kind…
Descriptors: Activism, Adult Education, Citizen Participation, Community Action
Lalley, Jacqueline, Ed. – Family Resource Coalition of America Report, 1997
This report of the Family Resource Coalition of America examines the interrelationship of sustainable community economic strategies and sustainable family units. The introductory section of the report consists of one article, "Integrating Community Development and Family Support." The second section, "Community Building: A Movement…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Change, Community Development, Community Resources