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Renard, Rosamunde – 1996
Community-based early childhood education and development programs can serve a geographical community, but may also serve a group not necessarily from the same community but who have a deep interest in one or more community-based schools. This set of booklets provides a proposal and program characteristics for a community-based early childhood…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Programs, Community Role, Community Schools
Department of Commerce, Washington, DC. – 1976
The conference reported here was held for national leaders from industry, labor, education, and youth-serving organizations to (1) provide a forum for the presentation of a sampling of illustrative programs displaying initiative being taken in the private sector to enhance youth career development, and (2) obtain the counsel of participants on how…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Career Development, Career Education, Community Involvement
Herbst, Laura – 1995
In today's wars, children are on the front lines. This handbook, the result of a meeting of psychologists and humanitarian workers, presents a strategy to meet the needs of children in war and refugee crises that intends to be cost-effective, empowering, and child-focused. The strategy emerged from field work based on the belief that each…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Community Action, Community Control
Young, Kathryn T.; Marx, Elisabeth – 1992
This paper discusses ways in which communities can enhance a family's ability to foster learning in the first 3 years of their child's life so that the child will be academically, emotionally, and socially competent in the transition to preschool and school. The paper focuses on model community-based programs that serve high risk families with…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, At Risk Persons, Child Development, Child Welfare
Kellman, Sheppard G.; And Others – 1970
The paper presents an outline for the development of a community mental health program based on assessment of a first grade population in an urban Negro neighborhood and involving a strategy that places primary emphasis on establishing ongoing community sanction and participation in policy-making. The strategy included the development of a…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Programs, Community Role, Community Services
Donovan, Katherine C. – 1981
This handbook suggests many different ways in which volunteers in community groups can assist students and scholars from the People's Republic of China (PRC) in adjusting to life in the United States. First, the introduction deals with the background of the attitudes and expectations of the men and women now coming to the United States and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Chinese Culture, Community Programs, Community Role