What are the common tasks facing cities committed to saturating their city with high quality out-of-school opportunities, available to every young person? While no list is definitive or complete, we identify ten critical tasks. (Background and Contact information is appended. Contains 5 footnotes and 9 figures.)

This monograph, summarizing the ideas of participants attending a two-day mini-conference, provides educators with information on the relationship between the National Alliance of Business (NAB) and career education. This booklet begins with a section presenting background information on NAB and several standard NAB youth programs. The next…

This paper attends to the critical, problematic and massively pervasive question of moving from precise and defensible statements of theoretical validity to equally precise and defensible statements of practical viability. Specifically, the paper presents certain experiences of sociologists engaged in bringing to bear tested propositions of youth…

This resource book, which provides a sampling of programs developed by the Youth Advocacy Projects of the Teacher Corps on behalf of troubled youth, is organized ln tbree major sections. Section I presents outlines, resources, and critiques of staff development courses, organized according to target youth group(s) and by subject area. Section II…

This planning charter for the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA) explains the Department of Labor's basic principles in designing and implementing YEDPA programs to provide a framework for the development of YEDPA efforts. This booklet is divided into six sections. The first section briefly discusses priorities regarding the…

This manual presents background information and administrative techniques which are intended to strengthen youth programs and interorganization coordination with the Youth Development Program (YDP) and the Community Action Agency (CAA). The content is in four sections. The section on program definitions includes definitions, history, and…

This report describes the inservice component of a project designed to enable 16 secondary English teachers to increase their understandings and develop their competencies in teaching disadvantaged, low achieving students. Included are descriptions of the resource materials used, curriculums which were studied, a sample unit which was developed, a…

The manual provides a description of a program to encourage minority undergraduate students to major in communication disorders through paid participation in the delivery of speech and hearing diagnosis and therapy services to underserved segments of a California community. The eight bilingual or bicultural trainees worked two half days a week…

This paper was written to assist counselors in their individual and group counseling with drug-abusing youth. The author offers some personal thoughts concerning youth and drugs. He then presents an overview of the varied and conflicting observations and opinions of people in general and students in particular in regard to the secondary school…

This handbook was developed to provide information on distributive education (D.E.) to business managers who, as training sponsors, provide job experiences for D.E. high school students. The content, including several illustrations, focuses on what D.E. is and how it operates; what is needed from the training sponsor; what the training sponsor can…

The Aides to Career Education (ACE) Program handbook is designed for use by administrators, teachers, and instructional aides. It provides information on the use of the aides by presenting guidelines for their most effective utilization, defining legal responsibilities of teachers and aides within the program, providing information on program…

The pamphlet presents an overview of child abuse, including definitions of child abuse and child neglect, causes and treatment processes, and legislation. Some basic approaches to treatment, prevention, and identification are described including the following: parent self-help groups, diagnostic teams, public education, and specialized training of…

This booklet serves as an introduction to the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) and describes the ETA's development and the services it provides to employers and jobseekers. It details programs, field services, history, prime objectives, and the 1978 legislation concerning ETA and CETA. Special areas discussed in detail are the…

The materials included in this document were prepared for the inservice training of Adoption Site personnel by the staff of Project Focus, a Developer/Demonstration site funded by the U.S. Office of Education under Elementary Secondary Education Act Title III. The document is designed to be used as a complete Training Manual. During the past three…

Described are activities of the first 2 years of the Chapel Hill Gifted-Handicapped Project, a demonstration program to identify gifted-handicapped and gifted-disadvantaged children (3 to 6 years old) and provide them with a preschool program of enrichment activities and therapy and remediation in developmental areas. Sections address the…