The booklet is a curriculum model for educating foster parents and group home personnel who work with mentally retarded individuals. The first chapter discusses the need for training. Subsequent chapters explore course development and presentation of topics, with emphasis on the importance of the approach the training should take and the rationale…

Fire protection in rural Alaskan communities depends on individual home fire prevention and protection rather than on the services offered by a centralized fire department. Even when help is summoned to extinguish a blaze, aid does not come in the form of a cadre of highly trained firefighters; it comes instead from whomever happens to be in the…