The authors accept urban reform as their main calling with their aim being to break the poverty cycle with a multi-faceted, educational, and family-centered approach. The authors speak about providing a broad range of education programs and social services including low-cost housing in comfortable apartments for single mothers, early childhood…

Describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of 15 community education centers in St. Louis, Missouri. Includes information about the evaluation approach and design, data management, policy changes, outcome expectations, findings and conclusions, and training needs. (JOW)

Community education in New Jersey will benefit from legislation financing the construction of facilities that deliver community and social services. Five departments of state government are to cooperatively develop a minimum of ten local models of community education facilities. (Author/MLF)

This project assumes that a youngster's problems with the law rarely occur in isolation. More often, they are part of a constellation of problems--family conflict, school failure, unemployment, emotional difficulties and, in urban ghettos, inadequate housing and health care. The Neighborhood Youth Resources Center (NYRC) of Philadelphia provides a…

This document, one in a series developed to provide technical assistance to 22 Long-Term Care Gerontology Centers, describes the current administrative and structural phenomenon of these centers. Precedents useful in assessing both the current climate and actual prospects for development of long term care centers are cited. The first section…

The full-service community school encompasses many concepts that derive from different domains--education, health, mental health, community development, youth development, human services--and these concepts are being implemented in diverse ways. Generally, the full-service community school integrates the delivery of quality education for children…

Neighborhood Justice Centers, as defined by the American Bar Association Report of the Pound Conference Follow-up Task Force, are facilities--designed to make available a variety of methods of processing disputes, including arbitration, mediation, referral to small claims courts as well as referral to courts of general jurisdiction. The purpose of…

A model for providing a continuum of comprehensive school-community services incorporates systems of prevention, early intervention, and care. Key components for addressing barriers to learning include classroom-focused enabling, student and family assistance, community outreach, home involvement, support for transitions, and crisis/emergency…

This document profiles seven exemplary literacy programs in Manitoba, Canada: the Open Doors program in Winnipeg (a community-based program conducted in a school setting); the Brandon Friendship Centre literacy program (a community-based program conducted in a friendship center in rural Manitoba); the Flin Flon Friendship Centre literacy program…