This guide is intended to provide planners, managers, and technical staff with guidelines for planning, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating an Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) health promotion program. As such, it can be used in the development of a detailed AIDS health promotion action plan. The guide reviews the steps, processes,…

This Monthly Action Kit introduces some approaches to defining local substance abuse indicators and provides ideas on how to measure them. The kit also contains examples of what some communities are doing to measure their local progress. A few indicators worth considering are outlined with suggestions about what to measure, where to find the data,…

Prevention research and demonstration studies are finding that coordinated prevention efforts that offer multiple strategies, provide several points of access, and coordinate and expand community opportunities are a most promising approach to preventing alcohol and other drug problems. To meet the need for direction, the Office for Substance Abuse…

This monograph presents principles and insights drawn from interviews and scholarly sources on the development of friendships between persons with disabilities and the nondisabled. Vignettes at the end of each chapter illustrate the chapter's principles. The first chapter looks at why friends are important and discusses intimacy and affection,…

This report contains the recommendations of the select committee for lesbian and gay concerns for Rutgers University. The executive summary outlines the principal goals and objectives for the university. Section 1 describes an agenda to improve public relations at Rutgers. Bigotry and homophobia are discussed and representative comments from a…

The booklet describes seven assessment instruments that may be helpful in planning educational programs for mildly educationally handicapped secondary students. Each instrument is outlined in terms of ordering information, target population, areas assessed, materials included, time required for administration, group size, format and…

Two newsletters review the principles and application of two behavior modification techniques with mentally retarded persons: overcorrection and punishment. Overcorrection may be either restitutional, in which the client is made to restore the environment to a far better state than before the inappropriate behavior occurred, or positive practice…

Changes made by 41 institutions of higher education to improve the quality of teacher education are briefly reported in this news release, as examples of responses to the need to improve educational quality. In general, institutions are raising standards, changing their programs, offering faculty and staff development activities, developing…

Saturday enrichment programs are viable options for gifted children who are not served in the public schools. Because such programs are not dependent on schools or state departments for funding, or for initiation, Saturday programs can be successfully operated by parent and other advocacy groups. Guidelines for considering such programs focus on…

Presents some of the results of and information learned in a recent nationwide survey of 140 school systems that were implementing PPBS. Focuses on the development of planning activities that can minimize the impact of problems or obstacles on the implementation of performance plans. (Author/IRT)

Through intensive student recruitment, faculty planning, new undergraduate programs and acquisitioning of research and endowment money PINY, previously close to bankruptcy, is now approaching its goal of becoming the great technological university of New York. (KE)

A description of the media program at Richland Center (Wisconsin) High School. (HB)