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Cassen, Anthony L. – 1980
A successful student volunteer program for providing community services, initiated by the Quaker-run Westtown School, is described. After arranging for the recruitment and the orientation of student volunteers, cooperating agencies, and faculty sponsors, evaluation processes, daily schedules, and public relations policies were devised. Students,…
Descriptors: Community Services, Disadvantaged, High Schools, Mental Retardation
Download full textButterworth, John; And Others – 1992
This report summarizes the results of a 3-year project in the metropolitan Boston (Massachusetts) area designed to demonstrate job placement and support for individuals with multiple disabilities that include severe physical disabilities and mental retardation. The report summarizes project outcomes, the cost and range of supports that…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Employment Programs, Human Services, Job Development
Jarrett, Pat – 1985
This manual describes a project (a joint, cooperative venture among local businesses, Roberta B. Tully School--Louisville, Kentucky--and the Kentucky State Office of Vocational Education) that outlines the process for beginning a community-based vocational education program for mentally, physically, and multiply handicapped students. Section I…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Disabilities, Job Analysis, Mental Retardation
Adams, William H. – 1984
A program for adult learners with special needs has been conducted in Salem County, New Jersey, for five years. The program was created under a Public Law 94-482 grant and since has been supported by a Department of Human Services grant, by various services clubs, and by the local board for vocational education. The program has three phases. In…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Career Counseling, Disabilities
Office of Personnel Management, Washington, DC. – 1979
This handbook for the selective placement of persons with physical and mental handicaps in federal civil service employment consists of eleven sections. Topics covered in section 1 include affirmative action, nondiscrimination, reasonable accomodation, definition of the term handicapped, acceptable terminology, and program implementation. Section…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Adults, Affirmative Action, Agency Cooperation
Young, Earl B., Ed. – 1969
Information on vocational education for the handicapped considers the following: different types of handicaps; cooperation and interagency involvement; services available from vocational rehabilitation; a model for a state-wide cooperative agreement; programs and services; and provision of services in rural areas. Community involvement in…
Descriptors: Administration, Agency Cooperation, Community Involvement, Cooperative Programs
