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Menefee, Gerald R.; Keenan, John R. – School Business Affairs, 1980
California school districts have generated an immediate 20 percent administrative saving by self-insuring Workers' Compensation. (Author/MLF)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Insurance, Money Management, School Districts
Peer reviewedCorey, Gerald; And Others – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 1980
Describes a workshop providing tools for self-confrontation and for acquiring self-help methods of making the desired changes in participants' daily lives. Many participants came to the realization that they are not passive victims of life, that they do make choices, and that they shape their lives by those choices. (Author/BEF)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Individual Development, Individual Power, Program Descriptions
Download full textUnwin, Richard – 1974
SHE is a rural California home building corporation founded on the principles of self-help. Lacking sufficient capital to purchase or finance a home by conventional means, a low-income family may elect to "self-construct with SHE". A participant family agrees to invest its labor, up to 1,500 hours, in the supervised construction of its…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Housing Needs, Housing Opportunities, Low Income Groups
Rowe, Donald R.; Spees, H. P. – Migration World, 1987
The Fresno County Refugee Health Volunteer Project enables individuals, families, and community groups to meet their health care needs. In spite of various problems, valuable progress has been made since 1984. The program is a model approach to health care which builds on the strength and skills of the community. (VM)
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Health Services, Cultural Differences, Decentralization
