The community, state mental hospitals, and a community mental health center work together to provide an environment conducive to the continued well being of chronic mental patients in an area of West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The authors describe a program that involves day care centers and the patients' everyday living. (Author)

Computer assisted plan for the Brooklyn State Mental Hospital can be used as a guideline for any future type of facility planning. (Author)

An Ohio mental health clinic utilized Head Start as a means of reaching poverty-level families. The staff worked with young children rather than attempt psychotherapy with adults. Teachers improved in their relationship with the children, and many of the children previously classified as maladaptive showed improvement. (DM)

Focusing on indivioual psychopathology, a mental health approach to educational problems is inadequate and frequently prevents identification of salient issues. The use of group process and social systems theory as powerful tools for understanding constraints on educational effectiveness and plannign corrective interventions is described. (Author)

Described is a task force" approach by community health education majors to present information on drugs, alcohol and smoking to students in an East Harlem junior high school. Impact on the students is uncertain, but the presentations were well received. (CJ)

The rapid expansion of community mental health programs calls for exploring the primary task, the nature of inputs and outputs, environmental conditions, and subsystem interactions as they affect a community mental health program. The differences between programs organized according to a medical practice model and a human services model are also…

The results of a survey of sex education" programs in Kansas indicate that despite the current controversy over this topic, there are increasing numbers of school districts in the process of initiating, developing or expanding programs of human growth and development, family life and sex education." (Author)

The thesis of a speech presented at American College Health Association, Boston 1970, was that communication between a student health service and the students it serves is essential in delivering effective health care. Student health service administration contact with the students is necessary. (Author/BY)

Concepts synthesized from British and American literature were judged for applicability by selected education and health leaders. Responses to questionnaires are analyzed, and implications are discussed. Presented at Research Council of American School Health Association, Detroit, 1968. (CJ)

U.S. needs a program of national health insurance to include the entire range of services required to maintain every citizen's personal health. (IR)

Survey revealed a comparatively superficial exposure for about 65 per cent of the girls in the state and less then 50 percent of the boys. Suggests that public schools continue to develop comprehensive programs and that teacher education institutions imporve training programs. (Author)