In the European parts of Russia (Archangelsk, Belgorod, Vladimir, Voronezh, Kazan, Krasnodar, Penza, Rostov-on-Don, St. Petersburg, Saratov, Smolensk, Taganrog, Tambov, Tver, Tolyatti and so on.) there is a lot of pedagogues, who strive to develop media competence among different age groups with different social status. More and more media…

Racism still abounds on the college campus. Thomas and Yates have implemented two paraprofessional programs in an attempt to alleviate this problem. Their work speaks to all persons involved in human service delivery systems. (Author)

Describes a program at Colorado State University where the professional staff at the counseling center has attempted to systematize the selection, training and evaluation of volunteer help. The program is unique in that volunteers upgrade their skills in return for service. (HMV)

Guidance associates are viewed by teachers, counselors, and administrators as being competent to assume responsibility for accomplishing many of the necessary yet time-consuming tasks frequently required of counselors. Thus, counselors are able to focus their efforts on counseling with students. (Author)

A project in which six nonprofessional personnel were used for supplementary instructional services in elementary schools was examined in terms of the roles, selection, training, supervision, special assets and evaluation of the nonprofessionals. (GW)

What's happening in training programs on campus? And where do the graduates go? True and Young's pioneer work in the Center for Human Services Research provides many of the answers. (Author)

In September 1970, Congress launched a comprehensive program to make funds available directly to those school districts facing problems associated with school desegregation. The legislation was entitled the Emergency School Assistance Program (ESAP) and took $75 million from previously authorized appropriations. Ten percent of the funds was…

Increasing attention is being paid to group homes as an alternative form of residential care for adolescents. In the home described here, young people who had been recommended for hospitalization or long-term residential treatment were helped by nonprofessional counselors to deal with their problems successfully. (Author)

Volunteerism has a poor reputation these days, because many human service programs have "used" volunteers and given them nothing in return. Discusses a different approach, one in which both service recipients and volunteers gain. (Author)

Systematic Human Relations Training (SHRT) is predicated on the basic assumption that there are certain core helper-offered conditions that are necessary in a helping relationship, i.e., empathy, respect, warmth, concreteness, genuineness, self-disclosure confrontation, and immediacy. This, however, is only part of the model. The second basic…

Contingency contracting, as a viable treatment modality for the rehabilitation of drug abusers, has been investigated, and promising results have been attained. During the past two and one-half years drug abuse treatment and paraprofessional training models have been developed. Treatment for drug abuse has been facilitated within the natural…

Written for personnel in early childhood education who are planning training programs for nonprofessionals, the paper outlines a program for training instructional aides who will be actively involved in the teaching process, unlike volunteers or teacher aides. Some major problems and general guidelines for training and employing nonprofessionals…

This document reports New York State junior colleges with paraprofessional programs in 1971-72. Four categories of junior colleges were considered: agricultural and technical colleges, community colleges (City University of New York and State University of New York) and private colleges. Completed questionnaires and college announcements were…

With budgets limiting counseling staffs and an increased need to retain students, a more effective method of providing services is needed. The objective is to bring paraprofessionals to the point where they can recruit, screen, select, evaluate, promote, train, supervise, and administer their own programs. (Author/PC)

Extending the guidance circle to include career counseling by parent volunteers can improve the counseling department's public image; make the most efficient use of counselors' time, enabling them to concentrate on more difficult problems and fulfill traditional guidance functions; and help counselors better meet students' needs. (Author)