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Peer reviewedBlatt, Burton – Exceptional Children, 1972
Educational trends in state programs and community involvement in educational programs for handicapped children are explored. (CB)
Descriptors: Community Role, Educational Programs, Educational Trends, Exceptional Child Education
Download full textIndiana State Dept. of Mental Health, Indianapolis. Div. of Mental Retardation. – 1972
The report is said to provide a plan for meeting the total needs (educational, personal, and vocational) of the mentally retarded for both service and residential living in Indiana. The plan proposes to bring the state hospital and community closer together and to offer several options that include the natural, foster, and small group home and the…
Descriptors: Community Role, Exceptional Child Services, Guidelines, Hospitals
Peer reviewedNewton, Charles H., III – Journal of Career Education, 1978
Business and industry have compounded corporate isolationism by creating a laissez-faire relationship with education, according to the author, who says that career education can be an educational strategy to improve community participation as well as the quality of education. To illustrate he describes a Colorado model for community-education…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Career Education, Community Involvement, Community Role
Peer reviewedHill, Janet; Revell, W. Grant – American Rehabilitation, 1987
Virginia's program to build statewide consensus and participation in supported employment for the disabled from boards, service providers, counselors, parents, consumers, and the business community is described. Activities have included establishment of offices of supported employment in key agencies and establishment of five technical assistance…
Descriptors: Adults, Agency Cooperation, Community Role, Disabilities
Alaska State Dept. of Community and Regional Affairs, Juneau. – 1976
This annual report of the recently established Alaska Day Care Assistance Program describes the system of state subsidies instituted to encourage local government participation in the delivery of day care services. Established to aid low-income families in providing for adequate child care, the program is administered by the state Department of…
Descriptors: Child Care, Community Role, Day Care, Financial Support
GORDON, CYRUS; AND OTHERS – 1961
THE ROLE OF FEDERAL, STATE, AND PRIVATE AGENCIES IN HELPING MIGRANT CHILDREN WAS DISCUSSED. BACKGROUND INFORMATION GIVEN BY NORMAN THOMAS AND FAY BENNETT EMPHASIZED SURVEY RESULTS. IN 1961 THERE WERE BETWEEN 350,000 AND 450,000 CHILDREN OF DOMESTIC MIGRANT WORKERS IN AMERICA. IN 1959 75,000 OF THE 500,000 MIGRANT WORKERS IN THE UNITED STATES WERE…
Descriptors: Background, Community Role, Conferences, Educational Finance
Fitch, Phil – California Journal of Teacher Education, 1979
Parent/community involvement in the teacher education programs in California is provided by means of Community Advisory Committees and parent/community members involved at school sites who work with teacher candidates in the role of teacher aides. (JMF)
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Role, Parent Participation, Parent Teacher Cooperation
South Carolina State Dept. of Education, Columbia. – 1985
Specific actions that schools, districts, and business groups can take to create effective cooperative programs are outlined and discussed in this manual. The booklet first cites national trends toward increased private sector involvement in education, then describes four activities mandated by South Carolina's Education Improvement Act of 1984 to…
Descriptors: Check Lists, Community Role, Cooperative Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Dronkers, Lance – 1996
State strategies used to build constituencies and expand the resource base of the child care systems they are developing will be an important contribution to the success of welfare reform. This report, from a 1996 Child Care Action Campaign national audioconference, describes the innovative strategies used to strengthen leadership, expand…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Community Responsibility, Community Role, Day Care
Florida Developmental Disabilities Planning and Advisory Council, Tallahassee. – 1974
The directory identifies resources which provide services to cerebral palsied, epileptic, and mentally retarded citizens of Florida. Listed are names and addresses of Divison of Retardation facilities; private agencies such as the Florida Association for Retarded Children, the Epilepsy Foundation of America, and United Cerebral Palsy of Florida;…
Descriptors: Agencies, Cerebral Palsy, Community Resources, Community Role
Mississippi Governor's Office of Federal-State Programs, Jackson. – 1986
This document contains the conclusions and recommendations of a task force established to review the status of adolescent pregnancy and childbearing in Mississippi and to make recommendations for programs and policies that would serve to prevent or lessen the negative impact of adolescent pregnancy. The introduction of the report presents…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Role, Early Parenthood, Education
Maryland Univ., College Park. Cooperative Extension Service. – 1973
Presented are the proceedings from a 1973 national conference on the development of service programs for and with deaf people. Opening papers include an introduction to the use of American Sign Language in community programs, a deaf woman's view of her world, and guidelines for the family physician in diagnosing and treating the deaf. In the next…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Community Resources, Community Role, Conference Reports
Bruner, Charles – 1993
This document is designed to help states and communities develop technical assistance relationships and secure assistance that is responsive to the unique needs of the jurisdiction being served. It is based on the experiences of individuals who have studied and participated in service integration efforts at the state and community levels. It draws…
Descriptors: Community Coordination, Community Development, Community Problems, Community Programs
Kerns, Marilyn; Stanley, Martha – 1982
This booklet was created to help communities (especially in Minnesota) to build community partnerships through community education. Such partnerships are needed in order to identify and meet community needs that are no longer being addressed by the Federal Government. The booklet is organized in three sections. The first section outlines the need…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Action, Community Cooperation, Community Development
Alaska Governor's Office of Telecommunications, Juneau. – 1975
Alaska is a state of geographic and cultural extremes. In order to improve the standard of health and to provide broader educational opportunity, especially in rural communities, the ATS-6 communications satellite has been used to compensate for remoteness and transportation difficulties. The Health/Education Telecommunications Experiment has…
Descriptors: Audiences, Citizen Participation, Communications Satellites, Community Role
