A training program for pediatricians involved with young handicapped children and their families was developed and implemented with 48 pediatric residents. (IM)

Briefly describes Phases I and II of the pilot-test of a model case review system for children in foster care, Concern for Children in Placement, launched in 1974 in a number of courts around the country. (BR)

Describing an in-service training program designed for a predominantly rural area of Northern Minnesota and Wisconsin, this article emphasizes the importance of strengthening linkages between social service practitioners in direct contact with older persons and the mental health agencies in the area. (JC)

A crisis kit for music educators is a necessity for districts and states that are experiencing cutbacks in music funding. Tells why and how to develop a music education crisis kit. (Author/RK)

The Maryland Division of Correction has implemented an innovative program that permits correctional officers to combine counseling case-management functions with their custory functions. Basically, the program relies on the quality of individual programming that results from the close personal, working relationship developed between officer and…

Two factors in the relationship between counselor education programs and elementary and secondary schools have provided continuing issues of contention. First is the debate between the idealism assigned to counselor education programs and the realism encountered in the school setting. A second factor addresses the concept that training…

This article describes a residence hall security system which utilizes students as security aides. The program is an integral part of the Syracuse University Security System. (DOW)

Describes the cooperative education program that is promoted by the Georgia Power Company and gives reasons why it is continued. (RK)

Resources already available within a school system can support and maintain an effective AGE program. Discusses these resources and strategies for delivering them to students and teachers. (Author/RK)

Project SEARCH is a cooperative program developed for and by New York education administrators and teachers to develop products and processing for humanizing education. Its aim is to reorient teacher attitudes toward the arts through workshops that develop teachers' capacities for affective aesthetic response. Teachers then are guided in efforts…

Describes a number of college programs for the elderly whose enrollment has grown significantly in the 1970s. Also discusses some noncollege organizations that offer educational programs for retirement-aged individuals. (RK)

The State University of New York at Brockport has established a program, known as "Basic Skills for Independent Living", for adult retarded students, as an integral part of its regular continuing-education offerings. Also describes the program at Broward College in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in which handicapped students receive training…

Children learn to solve problems and other concepts through lesson plans provided by the Center for Global Perspectives, a nonprofit educational organization financed by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Their goal is to make young students more aware of the world and how to process information from different parts of the…

The article describes "Project Occupations" at a Missouri junior college to train and find employment for low-income persons who are unskilled, undereducated, have lost jobs, or are chronically unemployed. Emphasis is on fast training and placement in area businesses. (MF)