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Human Development Institute, 2024
This manual was designed primarily for use by people with disabilities. The hope is that it is also useful for families, as well as service coordinators and providers who directly assist families and individuals with disabilities. The focus of this manual is to provide easy-to-read information about available resources, and to provide immediate…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Children, Health Services, Resources
Human Development Institute, 2022
This manual was designed primarily for use by people with disabilities. The hope is that it is also useful for families, as well as service coordinators and providers who directly assist families and individuals with disabilities. The focus of this manual is to provide easy-to-read information about available resources, and to provide immediate…
Descriptors: Developmental Disabilities, Disabilities, Children, Health Services
Health Resources Administration (DHEW/PHS), Bethesda, MD. Div. of Nursing. – 1978
The special projects for improvement in nurse training listed here were funded by the Division of Nursing for the period June 1965 to June 1978. The list is arranged alphabetically by state, city, institution, and project. Each entry includes the following: grant code number, project period, institution name and address, project title, project…
Descriptors: Directories, Federal Legislation, Nursing, Program Descriptions
McCutchan, Nancy, Comp.; Hunt, Janice, Comp. – 1980
The booklet contains descriptions of 15 Handicapped Children's Early Education Program (HCEEP) projects as well as descriptions of special education projects developed with funds from other sources. The first section contains an overview of all HCEEP programs; identifies the special class of children who are targets for HCEEP efforts; and briefly…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Federal Legislation, Information Dissemination
Osfield, Kenneth – 1994
This resource guide was developed to provide information about programs and services for students with disabilities at Florida's community colleges. Each of the 28 community colleges has a two-page section, outlining: highlights of the institution; admission procedures; available publications; college statistics; services provided for specific…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Accessibility (for Disabled), College Programs, College Students
Virginia Commonwealth Univ., Richmond. Community Services Assistance Center. – 1989
This report presents summaries of federally-assisted and state (Virginia) funded programs as required by Public Law 100-146, The Developmental Disabilities Assistance and Bill of Rights Act Amendments of 1987. Information presented for each of the 55 programs includes: (1) the administering agency; (2) the legislation enabling the provision of…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Developmental Disabilities, Eligibility, Federal Aid
National Governors' Association, Washington, DC. – 1987
This document deals with the problem of adult illiteracy in America and methods of addressing the problem. The first section contains reports on two gatherings held to address the illiteracy problem: a roundtable discussion by members of the National Governors' Association's Task Force on Adult Literacy of the state role in addressing adult…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Agency Role, Educational Legislation
National Collaboration for Youth, Washington, DC. – 1997
This report describes credentialing activities that seek to establish standards and promote professional development in the youth development field. Part 1, Federal and State Legislative Activities, focuses on: legislation promoting youth development activities and programs; welfare reform and the need for youth development and after-school…
Descriptors: Adolescents, After School Programs, Certification, Child Caregivers
Carosso, Juan – 1981
This handbook outlines programs and services available to Cuban and Haitian immigrants. The first section reviews materials pertinent to the legal status of recent Cuban and Haitian arrivals, and includes: (1) explanations of the legal status of entrants; (2) information on excludables; (3) documentation procedures; and (4) addresses of U. S.…
Descriptors: Cubans, Federal Legislation, Haitians, Health Services
Children's Foundation, Washington, DC. – 1993
This study contains the results of a nationwide survey of state regulatory agencies conducted to update family day care licensing information gathered in 1992. Following a list of definitions for terms used in the study and a brief overview of each state's regulatory requirements for small and large family day care providers, the main section…
Descriptors: Certification, Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Family Day Care
Department of Justice, Washington, DC. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. – 1996
This report discusses a wide array of violence prevention strategies used across the United States, ranging from school-based prevention to gun market interception. Relevant research, evaluation, and legislation are included to ground these programs and provide a context for their successful implementation. The first section of the report is an…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Gun Control, Guns, Legislation
Join Together, Boston, MA. – 2000
Underage drinking is a major problem across the country. Many communities are trying to reduce the injuries and deaths that occur as a result of this problem. Community groups have been instrumental in working at the state level to pass stricter laws curbing underage drinking and to tighten the laws that already exist. This paper provides tips and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Alcohol Abuse, Community Action, Community Problems
Office of Human Development (DHEW), Washington, DC. Office for Handicapped Individuals. – 1979
The directory provides information on approximately 175 programs for the handicapped receiving federal assistance. Descriptions of programs include uses and restrictions, types of assistance available, eligibility requirements, application procedures, appropriations, program accomplishments, enabling legislation, and the information contact.…
Descriptors: Agencies, Directories, Disabilities, Eligibility
National School Boards Association, Alexandria, VA. Council of School Attorneys. – 2002
This reference work is a supplement to the "Desk Reference on Significant Supreme Court Cases Affecting Public Education." It compiles summaries of selected education law cases from August 2001 through July 2002 and is intended as an overview of cases important to practitioners of school law. The text opens with a topical table of cases…
Descriptors: Civil Law, Court Litigation, Educational Administration, Educational Legislation
Phelps, Thomas C.; Frankel, Diane; Dunn, Christina – Bowker Annual Library and Book Trade Almanac, 1998
Contains three articles discussing programs of the National Endowment for the Humanities, furnishing a list of state humanities councils; Institute of Museum and Library Services Library Programs; and U.S. Department of Education Discretionary Library Programs, fiscal year 1997, highlighting the Higher Education Act and the Library Research and…
Descriptors: Federal Government, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Grants
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