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Pellerano, Maria B.; Fingerhut, Lori; Giordano, Susan; Kaul, Eshan; Baptiste, Brittany; Jimenez, Manuel E.; Jahn, Eric – Health Education Journal, 2023
Background: The perspectives of community partners about their experiences working with medical students and how service-learning experiences affect the communities they serve remains understudied. Objective: This study addressed gaps in the literature by reporting on in-depth interviews conducted with community partners who participated in a…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Partnerships in Education, School Community Programs, Service Learning
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Krovetz, Martin – Educational Leadership and Administration: Teaching and Program Development, 2016
As the Director of LEAD, an affiliated center with the Coalition of Essential Schools (CES), the author and his colleagues have the opportunity to work with teachers and administrators to develop "Habits of Mind" and "Habits of Character" that focus expectations for students and teachers. Habits of Mind are aligned with Bloom's…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Academic Persistence, School Culture, Poverty
Montclair State Coll., Upper Montclair, NJ. Life Skills Center. – 1986
A study was conducted to produce a graphic representation of the needs of the displaced homemaker (single parent and homemaker) population in New Jersey and to identify the services available to them. Data were collected from 28 sites using a mailed survey to program directors and face-to-face interviews with program participants and directors.…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Programs, Disadvantaged, Displaced Homemakers
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Perez, Sonia M.; Duany, Luis A. – 1992
This guide was designed to help Hispanic American community-based organizations develop and establish a teenage pregnancy prevention or teenage parenting program for Hispanic American adolescents. The guide does not assume prior knowledge of the scope of the teenage pregnancy problem in the United States, but it does underscore the critical role…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Community Programs, Disadvantaged Youth
Wright, R. Dean; Wright, Susan E. – 1993
This summary report provides a brief overview of the definitions, methodologies, and findings related to the census of homeless persons conducted in Iowa in 1992. Definitions provided by the McKinney Act and the Department of Education, and the definition used for the Iowa study are included. Questionnaires were administered to school personnel,…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Children, Community Programs, Demography
Wilson, Cindy – 1997
A practicum strategy was designed and implemented that focused on reducing the negative impact of adverse environmental conditions in one particular neighborhood in a town in Alberta (Canada) with a population of 8,500. Children in this neighborhood were served by one elementary school (enrollment 383), from which the strategy was implemented. The…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Community Resources, Disadvantaged Youth, Elementary Education