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Download full textThielman, Betse – 2001
This guide helps child welfare agencies and their partners craft more family-focused and neighborhood-based service systems. It suggests a framework that agencies can use to assess their current policies and practices and develop plans to integrate Family to Family values, principles, and strategies into existing initiatives and activities. Family…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Community Involvement, Cooperative Planning, Foster Care
Peer reviewedWhitmore, Kay R. – Councilor, 1989
Compares the problems faced in public education to those of U.S. industry during the past two decades. Points out that today's educational enterprise requires greater cooperation, communication, and commitment. Calls for the formation of a new partnership among education, business, and community. In place of separate reforms, advocates a new…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Involvement, Community Problems, Educational Change
Washington Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Olympia. – 1986
This guide is intended to assist teachers and vocational administrators in getting parents, students, and members of the community at large to participate in the process of planning and developing a high-quality home and family life education program. The first section discusses the importance of teamwork among parents, students, school, and…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Communication Skills, Community Involvement, Cooperative Planning
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. Information Collection and Exchange Div. – 2002
This manual combines best practices for involvement of supervisors and counterparts in programming, training, and volunteer activities from the three regions of the Peace Corps. Its intent is to offer ideas for participatory development to supplement the work being done with partners at posts. It is designed to help associate Peace Corps directors…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Adult Education
Hubbard, Robert L.; Ennis-Applegate, Mari – 1988
This manual contains materials for a 2-week workshop to train extension staff and community leaders working at the village level in the Solomon Islands. The aim of the course is to improve participants' skills so they are better able to help communities and community groups design and manage community projects. An introduction addresses the team…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Development, Community Involvement, Community Programs
Barrett, Sharon Fisher; And Others – 1986
This paper focuses on a community's educational improvement project in Tennessee that resulted from executive appointment of a citizen task force in each community. The paper reports project development and results; discussion emphasizes implications for school administrators. A joint task force, appointed in 1985, was directed to develop…
Descriptors: Administrator Responsibility, Administrator Role, Community Attitudes, Community Involvement
Haring, Norris G., Ed.; Romer, Lyle T., Ed. – 1995
This collection of 18 papers focuses on the inclusion of students who are deaf-blind in regular classrooms. Papers include: (1) "Inclusion of Students Who Are Deaf-Blind: What Does the Future Hold?" (Lori Goetz); (2) "A History of Federal Support for Students with Deaf-Blindness" (R. Paul Thompson and Charles W. Freeman); (3)…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Classroom Techniques, Communication Skills, Community Involvement
