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Peer reviewedFirehock, Karen – Nature Study, 1993
Presents an Izaak Walton League of America's Save Our Streams (SOS) program that teaches citizens how to protect streams. This organization provides activities for families, school groups, scout troops, 4-H clubs and other youth organizations. (MCO)
Descriptors: Community, Community Action, Community Involvement, Community Responsibility
Lewis, Michael D.; Lewis, Judith A. – 1978
A paraprofessional training program designed to provide community controlled mental health services to the Woodlawn community of Chicago, Illinois, is described in this monograph. The neighborhood and The Woodlawn Organization (T.W.O.A), a self help project formed in early 1960, are described from an historical perspective. Some of the areas…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Programs, Community Responsibility, Curriculum
Download full textHerbst, Laura – 1995
In today's wars, children are on the front lines. This handbook, the result of a meeting of psychologists and humanitarian workers, presents a strategy to meet the needs of children in war and refugee crises that intends to be cost-effective, empowering, and child-focused. The strategy emerged from field work based on the belief that each…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Community Action, Community Control
