Questionnaires completed by 32 pediatricians and general practitioners from a large midwestern city indicated that a large number of them were unfamiliar with local services for the retarded, and 80 percent recommended institutionalization for some of their severely and profoundly retarded patients, while 54 percent made such recommendations for…

The document offers proceedings of a four session workshop titled "Community Programs for the Handicapped," a program to enable participants to inventory and explore community alternatives to the institutionalization of handicapped individuals. Session 1 addresses the concept of normalization and the availability and utilization of community…

This bibliography is a resource for materials providing information on urban programs, services, organizations, agencies, and individuals involved in the areas of: education; recreation; employment; housing; community development; consumer protection; legal, health, and social services; and information services provided by libraries, private…

SATURDAY MORNING SEMINARS FOR ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS WERE CONDUCTED WITH PROFESSIONAL RESOURCE PERSONS AS TEACHERS. THE PROGRAM WAS VOLUNTARY. THREE 9-WEEK SEMINARS WERE CONDUCTED IN THE FALL. SUBJECTS STUDIED WERE MICROBIOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY (6TH GRADE), COMPUTER MATH (7TH AND 8TH GRADE), AND CHEMISTRY (GRADES 9-12). DURING THE…

Health educators are encouraged to take advantage of community resources. (MM)

The case study examines the causes and effects of childhood teasing on disabled children and notes the added stress of a new house and new neighborhood. Becoming more acquainted with community and school resources is seen as one way of dealing with the situation. (CL)

The SEFAM Program (Supporting Extended Family Members) in Settle, WA, has organized workshops for grandparents of handicapped children. Questionnaire responses of 21 workshop participants touch upon their initial reaction to the handicaps, their needs, their contributions, and the supports available to them. (CL)

More and more communities are rallying together to solve their own problems. These broad-based initiatives are illustrations of the international healthy communities movement. The healthy communities movement emerged from the World Health Organization in 1986 and has quickly spread across the globe. A cornerstone of the movement is the Ottawa…

Health care providers recognize the importance of standards of care and standardized models of evaluation and intervention on cases of domestic violence. Examined are algorithms and care pathways being utilized to assure consistency in the evaluation and interventions offered where the spectrum symptoms of domestic violence are identified in the…

A joint school and recreation complex in Arlington County, Virginia, is designed to serve the entire community. (Editors)

Discusses the transition of Illinois Bell's educational relations department to the career education concept. (SB)

The development of a technology for helper training and its implications for human and community resource development are discussed. (BY)

Describes programs, primarily in science, in Carlisle and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (SP)

The article describes the types of resources available in all communities for use in early childhood programs and, suggests several techniques that can be used in organizing a community resource program in varied early childhood educational settings. (Author/NQ)

This paper examines relationships between 2 dimensions of social integration (community participation and affective community resources) and job and marital quality. Data from the 1995 National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States (n= 1,816) indicate that the level of community participation is unrelated or negatively related to job…