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Cornell OEO Project: An Exploration in Urban Extension Activity. Supplementary Report No. 5; Forms for Data Collection.
Harding, Margaret; And Others – 1971
Forms used for data collection in the Cornell-OEO Project fall into the categories of recruitment and selection, family assistant training, in-service training, supervisory records of family assistants, service-family contacts and visits, reports on visits to Cornell-OEO Project, work with groups outside the project, and analysis forms.…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Services, Data Collection, Extension Education
Cornell OEO Project: An Exploration in Urban Extension Activity. Supplementary Report No. 3: The Cornell-OEO Project Through the Eyes of the Participants.
State Univ. of New York, Ithaca. Coll. of Human Ecology at Cornell Univ. – 1971
Reported are reviews of the Cornell-OEO Project in South Brooklyn by the family assistants--women who lived in the community and worked with the families served. The collection of statements are presented as they were dictated or written. When the statement was in Spanish it was translated to English. These statements of the family assistants…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Services, Extension Education, Nonprofessional Personnel
Cornell OEO Project: An Exploration in Urban Extension Activity. Supplementary Report No. 4: Paraprofessionals; Planned and Unplanned Change in a Low-Income Community.
Konan, Mildred – 1971
The report evaluates the impact of paraprofessionals in a program of planned change, the Cornell-OEO Project in South Brooklyn, which employed and trained local women to serve as family assistants to increase the competence and knowledge of low-income homemakers in the area. Findings indicate that programs where paraprofessionals communicate…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Involvement, Community Services, Extension Education
Cornell OEO Project: An Exploration in Urban Extension Activity. Supplementary Report No. 2: Families Served by the Cornell-OEO Project.
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Harding, Margaret; And Others – 1971
The families served in the Cornell-OEO Project in South Brooklyn are described from three points of view: on a one-to-one basis, as selected subgroups, and in terms of educational work with groups. The one-to-one approach was used most. Demographic data for those served this way include family size, ethnic characteristics, residence location,…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Services, Consumer Education, Extension Education
Cornell OEO Project: An Exploration in Urban Extension Activity.
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Ostrander, Edward; And Others – 1971
To explore ways of adapting cooperative extension education to help urban poor families solve their home management and consumer problems, the Cornell-OEO project trained and then employed 38 South Brooklyn women as family assistants to work with over 500 local families. The dynamic program changed frequently during its 2 year term as its range…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Problems, Community Services, Community Study
The University and the Ghetto.
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Edwards, Gordon – 1968
Ineffective universities and school systems face expanding black ghettos, migration from rural and Southern areas, and the exodus of whites from the inner city. Between 1954 and 1964, in New York City, the Negro and Puerto Rican school population rose from 29% to 50.5%, yet the majority of the teachers remained white and the system did not try to…
Descriptors: Blacks, Community Centers, Community Involvement, Community Services