This brief booklet examines the issue of how to ensure that one gets the best possible return out of attending a human resources or human resources development and training conference. The first section discusses evaluating seminars, expos, and professional conferences and the rationale for attending. A four-year conference planning calendar lists…

From July, 1974 to June, 1977, a federally funded project to develop a competency based training program for human service workers was run at Elgin Mental Health Center, a 750-bed inpatient, state psychiatric facility. During the course of the project, over 500 discrete tasks were identified which such workers perform. Tasks were grouped into…

The handbook provides for the administrator of Adult English as a Second Language Programs detailed information in the following areas of program design: program requirements and funding, program development, program implementation, staff development, and program evaluation. The discussion of each of these areas is subdivided topically and, where…

To assist mental health agency leaders and others concerned with state mental health manpower development, these guidelines (presented in ten sections) explore various issues and approaches and indications for using one approach over another. The first three sections focus on designing and conducting manpower studies, making long range projections…