Regarding county-level leadership, evidence is presented to support four main contentions. County leadership is dominated by a relatively small number of very influential people. By and large they are the same people in 1968 as they were in 1964. While no appreciable change has occurred in the constituency of this dominant group as a result of the…

This set of training materials was developed for a nationwide prevention education program designed to develop new citizen awareness of the importance of making sound, personal decisions leading to the reduction of drinking problems and alcoholism. There are three packages of prevention education materials presented: Reflections in a Glass, for…

Provides guidelines that will help educators take a leadership role when they work with community leaders to plan for community-wide efforts to provide families with high-quality school-age child care services. (BB)

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…

In 1997, the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) published the first edition of "Preventing Drug Use among Children and Adolescents: A Research-Based Guide" to share the latest NIDA-funded prevention research findings with parents, educators, and community leaders. The guide introduced the concept of "research-based prevention" with questions…

Families that participate in CAP programs express keen desires to make more money, to get a better education for their children, to keep their children out of trouble, to make the available money go farther, to get more training and better jobs, to get better medical care, and to have more attractive homes. This is especially true of the large…