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Social Work Consultation Services in Rural Areas.
Waltman, Gretchen H. – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1989
Reviews social work consultation models and describes applications of consultation techniques in rural communities. Discusses following steps in developing rural consultation services: making contact, negotiating contract, formulating goals, problem solving, action, evaluation, and termination. Encourages consultation services development as…
Descriptors: Careers, Community Coordination, Community Services, Consultants
Community Support Programs in Rural Areas: Developing Programs without Walls.
Sullivan, William Patrick – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1989
Describes "program without walls" for developing community services in rural areas. Emphasizes importance of creative collaboration and redesign of traditional support programs to offer comprehensive community services tailored to needs of rural families and individuals. Suggests practical applications of "without walls" model. (Author/TES)
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Community Cooperation, Community Coordination, Community Programs
Organizing Services in Rural Communities: Moving toward Service Integration and Flexible Specialization. Part I: Models for Organizing Service Delivery.
O'Looney, John – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1993
Explores options for human service delivery and related organizational change in rural areas. Addresses the unique context and distinctive features of rural service delivery, urban service professionalism and fragmentation, and potential advantages of traditional integrated rural systems. Discusses eight models derived from combinations of three…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Services, Delivery Systems, Human Services
Organizing Services in Rural Communities: Moving toward Service Integration and Flexible Specialization. Part II: Building Supports for a Flexible Model.
O'Looney, John – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1993
Examines the potential of a flexible specialization model to provide effective social services integration in rural areas. Contrasts flexible specialization with craft and Fordist models of production, with implications for service integration. Identifies societal changes supporting the development of flexible specialization in rural areas.…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Community Services, Delivery Systems, Elementary Secondary Education
Preparation for Practice with Rural and Minority Elderly: A Faculty Development Model.
Holland, Carl D.; Sullivan, Quintin E. – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1994
A multidisciplinary faculty development project at Illinois State University increased faculty expertise about aging, integrated faculty knowledge into undergraduate courses, produced 50 instructional units, increased student knowledge about the rural elderly, generated faculty research on minority and poor elderly, established a multidisciplinary…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Health Services, Curriculum Enrichment, Educational Gerontology
Community Empowerment and Cultural Sensitivity through Interdisciplinary Rural Health Training: A Collaborative Model.
MacDonald, Frederick; Fuller, Kathi – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1994
The Interdisciplinary Rural Health Training Project recruits and trains graduate-level, allied health and social service practitioners for practice in two rural Michigan counties with diverse and migrant populations. The program emphasizes cultural sensitivity, interdisciplinary community service projects, team building among health professionals,…
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Allied Health Occupations Education, Community Health Services, Cooperative Programs