This paper describes the Winnebago County (Wisconsin) Community Options Program, begun in January, 1982, which provides for a comprehensive assessment of all elderly persons within the target area who are at risk of becoming institutionalized. The paper focuses on the planning activities for the first year of the pilot program including community…

A teacher helped her students learn how to assess a community and its health needs and how to work with community leaders to plan, carry through, and evaluate a health care program. (Author/MW)

The course described was planned to give students preparing to become community health nurses a sound basis for nursing practice as well as provide them with a systematic approach toward assessing the community, mobilizing existing health resources, cooperating with other professionals, and utilizing existing resources. (AJ)

An eight-month internship program for fully-trained pediatric nurse associates in New York's public child health stations, in cooperation with Cornell University, prepares nurses to give physical examinations, give treatment for minor illnesses, and counsel families in child care and daily living skills. Initial problems and solutions are…

The Indochinese Mental Health Project of the International Institute of San Francisco has as its major goal that of helping Indochinese refugees to receive training and to find employment in community mental health services in order that they may work with incoming refugee populations. Prospective trainees are evaluated and selected on the basis…

The effectiveness of the state of Maryland's Community Home Care Services (CHCS) program was evaluated in this study. The CHCS's major goal is to enable persons 65 and over and their spouses (regardless of age) to remain in their own homes or in other independent living arrangements, consistent with their desires, ability and safety; or to assist…

RURAL AREAS HAVE UNTAPPED POTENTIAL IN THE ROLE OF DEMONSTRATING, EXPERIMENTING, AND PIONEERING NEW GOALS, PHILOSOPHIES, AND METHODS IN THE MENTAL HEALTH FIELD. GOALS IN DEVELOPING SERVICES ARE TO EXTRACT FROM CLINICAL MODELS THOSE THERAPEUTIC INGREDIENTS THAT CAN BE USED BY ALL RELEVANT MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONS AND, IF POSSIBLE, BY ANY EXISTING…

This manual for home economics teachers contains eight sample lessons on health issues related to population growth. Among the topics treated are nutrition, family health, communicable diseases, causes of high mortality, and community health services. Lessons are designed for lower primary through high school students. A scope and sequence chart…

When the psychologist serves Head Start, he must be a consultant to the whole Head Start organization, from top to bottom, director to children, and horizontally from potentially supportive agencies in the community to the Head Start staff, to the children and their parents. In the process of serving as a community psychologist, he will be called…

The paper presents the conceptual framework and research strategy of the psychiatric utilization review and evaluation (PURE) project at the Connecticut Mental Health Center. Review by structure, by outcome and by process are considered briefly. The Basic Utilization Review Program was developed to provide a more sophisticated and economical…

The distorting notions of the deficit and different Afro-American subculture have led white psychologists and guidance counselors to diagnose incorrectly behavior aberrations in Black children. A case study of a Black child who was hastily diagnosed and institutionalized as brain damaged, retarded, and psychotic illustrates this point. A…

This is a report on a series of University-Community Forums in the Goals Project of the University-Urban Interface Program of the University of Pittsburgh in which the relationships of urban universities and their urban communities are explored. A review of the original study plan and an explanation of departures from this plan precedes a…

The author believes that instead of using psychotherapy for children, manipulating a child's environment is a more effective way to deal with psychopathology. Using this approach, the author did a two-year follow-up study of effects on children referred to a community mental health clinic. The follow-up indicates that 86 percent had sustained…

Issues of changing positions and roles for paraprofessionals are considered in the context of the hierarchical structure and process of mental health organizations. Discussion focuses on problems arising when paraprofessionals are promoted in the functional hierarchy while continuing to occupy the lowest level in the professional caste system.…