This article illustrates the important role family and community play in students' sense of belonging, and the need for student services to look beyond the college campus to support student engagement.

This paper draws from the Center on Reinventing Public Education's (CRPE's) study of pandemic pods conducted in 2020 and 2021 to understand what lessons can be drawn from the focused implementation of the whole-child approach in pandemic learning communities and to what degree these lessons are applicable to traditional schooling. The majority of…

As COVID-19 continues to affect the economy and labor market and the pathways to recovery remain unclear, state and local workforce agencies continue to adapt to new conditions and challenges to adequately support the millions of unemployed Americans at this time. Over the course of the past year, the demands placed on the public workforce system…

This research aims at describing the functions of education played by the family, school, community, and government in education partnerships in Makassar. It is also explaining the holistic model of education partnerships in Makassar. This study used a qualitative approach with a case study. The data were collected through interviews, observation,…

Every day, girls and boys around the world face many forms of physical, sexual and psychological violence in and around schools. On too many occasions, such violence is tolerated by societies and institutions, including schools, and it is these forms of violence that contribute to the alarming numbers of girls and boys being excluded from schools…

Principles for participatory community development are as follows: humility and respect; power of local knowledge; democratic practice; diverse ways of knowing; sustainability; reality before theory; uncertainty; relativity of time and efficiency; holistic approach; and decisions rooted in the community. (SK)

Discusses the individual, public health, and public policy. The author advocates a healthy public policy which stresses holistic health maintenance, small-scale local solutions to health problems, and an ecological approach to worldwide health problems. (AM)

Disasters are becoming the key concern of many nations. The term disaster usually meant for natural calamities. There of course may be a human hand behind each of the disasters, whether its' impact is small or large. Disasters can be categorized into natural and man made. In the case of natural disasters there may be some natural indicators to…

Native American Vietnam War veterans offer important concepts and techniques concerning the reintegration process which may be generalized to psychiatry as a whole and which may be particularly valuable to the adjustment and treatment of other Vietnam War veterans. Native American psychological healing practices as applied to returning war…

This report examines the Community Holistic Circle Healing (CHCH) model, an innovative approach to intervention adopted by the First Nations Hollow Water Community (Canada) for sex offenders, their victims, and their community. The first section, "Ojibwa Circle," overviews traditional Ojibwa culture, sex roles, child rearing practices,…