To meet the needs of young black students in integrated junior high schools, adult black human relations specialists were systematically selected and trained and assigned within the school system. They functioned above levels determined to be minimally effective and were generally highly rated by students, principals and administrative staff,…

Lay personnel indigenous to the inner city were selected and trained in helping and human relations skills as functional professionals. In turn, they utilized an internship principle in conducting similar training programs for 63 essentially unselected hard core unemployed. (Author)