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Fort Worth Public Schools, TX. – 1972
The handbook helps orient teachers at the middle school level to the expected outcomes processes of a career education program. Topics covered are: career education objectives and concepts, classroom implementation, procedures for identifying and obtaining resource speakers, guidelines for use of community resource center, and evaluation…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Community Resources, Middle Schools
Hooper, Katharine A.; And Others – 1973
This manual is designed to help staffs of child development programs establish a social services record keeping system. It provides replicas of actual forms used in the record keeping system (with an outline explanation of the purpose and use of each form) and includes a guide for analyzing community resources and organizing a resource file. A…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Componential Analysis, Early Childhood Education, Performance Specifications
Sebolt, Alberta P. – 1970
Fifty five community resources in and around the Boston area are listed in this field-study guide intended for teachers of primary and intermediate grades. Criteria as to the significance, concept development, structure, and feasibility of the use of resources as field study laboratories is given to make the study more relevant. The guide offers…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Elementary Education, Field Instruction, Field Trips
Pennsbury School District, Fallsington, PA. – 1976
The statistical data generated by the Pennsbury, Pennsylvania school district's assessment of the needs and resources of the community are presented here. The study itself consisted of two phases: (1) an Opinion Inventory to find out how a random sampling of community and school staff felt about the ideas of community education, and (2)…
Descriptors: Community Education, Community Resources, Educational Needs, Educational Resources

Greenberg, Ellie – Journal of Experiential Education, 1978
If an educational program provides a theory of learning (defining specific competencies), and if community subsystems are understood and used in conjunction with academics, and if other learning resources (persons, events, media, etc.) are identified and catalogued, then the "community" can function as a total learning resource. (Author/JC)
Descriptors: Community Resources, Educational Resources, Experiential Learning, Learning Processes
Nietupski, John; And Others – Journal of the Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (JASH), 1986
The authors sugggest that where in vivo instruction alone is unfeasible, practitioners should employ both training formats concurrently with moderately and severely handicapped students. Five guidelines for making simulated instruction a more effective adjunct to community instruction are discussed. (Author/CL)
Descriptors: Community Resources, Daily Living Skills, Normalization (Handicapped), Severe Disabilities

Gaylord-Ross, Cory; And Others – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 1986
Students (ages 18 and 19) with severe handicaps participated in laboratory technician skill training and learned to perform tests according to industrial as well as educational standards. Students also developed job-related and interaction skills in the community classroom setting. (CL)
Descriptors: Community Resources, High Schools, Job Skills, Laboratory Technology

Toseland, Ronald W.; Hacker, Lynda – Social Work, 1985
Surveyed 247 social workers to investigate their use of community self-help groups as a resource for clients. Results indicated social workers were aware of self-help groups and their benefits, but agencies do not have policies that encourage their use. (JAC)
Descriptors: Caseworker Approach, Community Resources, Self Help Programs, Social Support Groups

Michael, Suzanne; And Others – Social Work, 1985
Describes a newly developed model of intervention that responds rapidly to natural disasters or political and social crises. The model focuses on community response to the event to identify a community of sufferers. Highlights the efficacy of service delivery wherein the relationships among social workers are egalitarian and cooperative.…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Crisis Intervention, Delivery Systems, Emergency Programs
Pettingill, Don G. – Perspectives for Teachers of the Hearing Impaired, 1984
Examples are given of ways in which deaf adults, parents of deaf children, and schools can cooperate to provide better educational and community services. (CL)
Descriptors: Adults, Community Resources, Deafness, Elementary Secondary Education
Caldwell, John A. – Canadian Journal for Exceptional Children, 1985
Issues and concerns voiced by a panel of teachers, parents, and disabled adults address prevention and early intervention, education, and community services for physically disabled persons in Nova Scotia. (CL)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Community Resources, Elementary Secondary Education, Intervention

Gardner, James F. – Mental Retardation, 1986
Analysis of states' use of home and community-based service waivers to finance community services for mentally retarded persons revealed that the waivers are difficult to develop and states are experiencing difficulties in serving the targeted number of people. (CL)
Descriptors: Adults, Community Resources, Financial Support, Mental Retardation
Howard, Dennis – Parks and Recreation, 1976
It is argued that community recreation directors must seek the backing of influential private individuals to succeed in obtaining community support for recreational opportunities. (GW)
Descriptors: Community Resources, Decision Making, Parks, Power Structure
McDonald, Thomas P.; Brook, Jody – 2002
This Kids Count census brief is the first in a series to offer policymakers concise glimpses of Kansas' children and families. The brief's introduction notes significant changes in the child population during the past decade: approximately one-half of Kansas' child population is concentrated in five counties; the state's child population grew by 8…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Community Resources, Counties

Berde, Carol – Family Coordinator, 1974
The author discusses a multi-media library and information center in population and family planning which is associated with a Planned Parenthood affiliate and provides many segments of the community with educational materials and services and strengthens the affiliate's programs. (Author)
Descriptors: Community Education, Community Resources, Family Planning, Population Education