Microcredentials create opportunities for continuing growth of all teachers based on specific needs. They provide ways for teachers to lead their own learning while allowing administrators to identify and address teachers' needs as well as the expertise teachers have to share with their colleagues. Microcredentials are different from traditional…

This report addresses challenges faced by transition-age youth and young adults with mental health conditions as they try to find and maintain stable housing. This document was written specifically for program designers, administrators, and policy-makers, and others who are planning to develop or modify housing supports that are available to young…

Purpose: With rapid industrialization and population growth in the urban and rural areas in India, the demand for public transport has risen sharply. In the fast changing scenario in the public transit sector, the role of a bus depot manager (DM) has also undergone substantial transformation. This paper aims to identify and gauge the…

Surveyed Michigan veterinarians about preferences for continuing education courses. Found that greater differences existed between them in the importance of timing, location, cost, and available credit than for program environment, format, and length. Graduate year and gender were two demographic variables most likely to be associated with these…

Residential care must be redefined, free from jargon and rhetoric. Over the past 20 years, the social welfare approach, which encompasses the medical model, has dominated legislative and practical thinking about residential care. This theoretical thinking reached its culmination in the concept of the therapeutic community. The therapeutic…

The author describes a program to provide special vocational training to handicapped students at Judy Andrews High School in Pensacola, Florida. The model used contains four components: (1) behavioral, (2) academic, (3) remedial, and (4) vocational. (CH)

The microcomputer can be an important tool for the health educator faced with the task of designing exercise programs for a variety of individuals in community or worksite settings. The EXERFIT exercise prescription program at the University of Maryland illustrates an application of the microcomputer. (CJ)

Discusses inclusion of people with developmental disabilities in managed care as part of general efforts by states to enroll all Medicaid recipients. Elements of managed care that are important to people with developmental disabilities are reviewed, including care coordination, maintenance of quality, and individual and family support. (Author/CR)

Notes that day care programs created to serve physically frail elders are hesitant to accept growing number of clients with severe cognitive impairment. Suggests ways to modify existing programs to accommodate clients with dementia. Discusses adapting screening and intake procedures, the first few visits, behavior management, programming, and…

Described is a house program at Davis and Elkins College in West Virginia which combines humanistic and behavioristic philosophies of education to help students adjust better. The program appears to be working. (Author/CJ)

This document discusses the relative merits of cross-age helping programs, where one older more experienced student helps younger less experienced children to learn. Two types of approaches to organizing cross-age helping programs are reviewed: (1) one emphasizes a programmed or structured approach which consists of a series of detailed steps for…

The author catalogs her criticisms of inservice practices that provide no meaningful help to the individual teacher, such as general system-wide events, sessions planned and taught by those outside the classroom, programs with inadequate funding or rewards for participation, and programs that offer no follow-up classroom assistance. (SJL)

This TIP, on the best practice recommendations for the treatment of substance abuse, presents guidelines for ensuring continuity of care as offenders with substance use disorders move from incarceration to the community. Research indicates that treatment gains may be lost if treatment is not continued after the offender is released from…

Presents a general model of the structure and functioning of managed care and describes elements (provider networks, fiscal elements, risk estimation, case-mix, management information systems, practice parameters, and quality improvement) critical to people with developmental disabilities. Managed care demonstration projects and a hypothetical…

Conducted for the Palo Alto Adolescent Services (PAASC) and other social service agencies serving the adolescent population in North Santa Clara County, California, this report is designed to assess the adequacy of existing services and resources within these communities. The identified areas of need address the following concerns: housing,…