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Austin - Travis County Mental Health - Mental Retardation Center, TX. – 1972
Presented is a county wide (Travis County, Texas) plan developed by 12 human service agencies to provide comprehensive educational, maintenance, and prevention services to the mentally retarded of all ages. Described are three underlying principles: human ecology (which stresses an individual approach to fulfillment), normalization, and community…
Descriptors: Agencies, Community Organizations, Community Planning, Delivery Systems
Patten, W. George – 1977
Although progress has been made in the past decade in dealing with social and economic problems, there are still problems that need to be addressed. These include the need to revitalize decayed urban areas, and to develop human resources in these areas. This paper suggests that a comprehensive community education approach may be part of the…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Development, Community Education, Community Involvement
Haynes, Alan E. – 1976
The Community Assessment System (CAS) is a research technique designed to probe small, rural community perceptions and attitudes toward planned economic expansion and social development by generating suggestions for general or specific community modifications; ascertaining community attitudes and possible responses to a specific modification;…
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Community Planning
Starr, Harold; And Others – 1981
Comprehensive planning has been identified as an essential ingredient in the efforts of local schools to increase the responsiveness of vocational education. This report describes the reality of comprehensive vocational education planning as it occurs in a wide variety of educational and environmental contexts, suggests ways that have the…
Descriptors: Community Planning, Cooperative Planning, Educational Needs, Educational Planning
Mayor's Office of Manpower, San Francisco, CA. – 1975
The report describes a 1974-75 project to coordinate planning efforts for public training programs in vocational education, rehabilitation, and manpower training and development in San Francisco. Project participants included representatives from the local public school district, the community college district, the office of the State Department…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Leaders, Community Planning, Cooperative Planning
Frasier, James E.; Stanton, William – 1982
This publication reports the development of the vocational-technical resource consortia in Ohio and identifies the operational procedures associated with successful programs. Five exemplary consortia were studied in some depth; however, data were obtained from all of the 23 consortia in the state. The research indicates that the consortium is an…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Citizen Participation, Community Cooperation, Community Development