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Download full textGeneral Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1996
AmeriCorps is the largest national and community service program since the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s. Data from meeting with officials of AmeriCorps*USA; examination of grant files for all grantees' programs; review of Corporation program policies, guidance, and plans; random sampling of programs; and site visits to seven…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Educational Finance, Federal Programs, Program Costs
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1987
This document contains testimony and written statements on a proposal to amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to authorize grants to states for demonstration projects that provide services to older persons in return for their service as volunteers. Persons testifying included representatives of the Reagan Administration, voluntary nonprofit…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Demonstration Programs, Federal Programs, Federal State Relationship
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1987
This document contains witnesses' testimonies and prepared statements from the Congressional hearing called to examine the living conditions of children in state care. Parents, youth workers, legal advocates, program administrators and state officials discuss the cost effectiveness of community-based services and the effectiveness of various…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Children
Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC. – 1987
This document contains an executive summary and a six-part report presenting findings from a series of small studies assessing the research on school-based drug prevention programs and surveying federal, state, and local school district prevention activities. It focuses on prevention, or education, activities directed toward school-age youth…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Community Programs, Drug Education
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1981
This publication contains the proceedings of the Senate Subcommittee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse hearings in April 1981, which reviewed and evaluated current alcohol and drug education programs and the role of its government. Statements by government staff as well as nationwide directors of alcohol and drug education programs are provided along…
Descriptors: Alcohol Education, Community Programs, Drug Education, Federal Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1982
This document contains a transcript of a hearing concerning the proposed Community Partnership for Employment and Training Act (H.R. 5320) and two related bills (H.R. 5461 and H.R. 5533). The transcript York, New York). Act proposes to establish a community public-private training and employment assistance system and to provide employment and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Community Programs, Disadvantaged
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1982
This document is a transcript of hearings conducted in Hartford, Connecticut, before the United States Senate Subcommittee on the Handicapped on the effects of deinstitutionalization of the mentally retarded. The bulk of the testimony was given by Connecticut officials and leaders in the mental health field. They presented evidence and case…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Deinstitutionalization (of Disabled), Developmental Disabilities, Group Homes
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1986
This report establishes a strategy for Federal action on behalf of the nation's children and their families, and begins by urging that the concepts of the Full Employment and Balanced Growth Act of 1978 (P.L. 95-523) be enforced and implemented. Section I provides an introduction to and summary of the report. Section II delineates the cost of…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Community Programs, Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Standards
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. – 1982
These hearings, focusing on financial support for community-based programs dealing with problems of runaway and homeless youths, explore the scope of the problem, types of activities which are being undertaken, and paths for future action. Testimony and prepared statements are presented by several witnesses including a commissioner of the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Block Grants, Community Programs, Delinquency
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Appropriations. – 1994
This special hearing, held in Portland, Oregon, addressed the concept of allowing states and local governments more flexibility in their use of federal funds designated for educational programs in exchange for increased state and local accountability. It focused on programs and policies in place or under consideration in the states of Oregon and…
Descriptors: Accountability, Community Programs, Educational Change, Educational Finance
