This appendix accompanies Volume 1 of the Information and Referral Center Study and the Evalaution of Information and Referral Services for the Elderly, and contains job descriptions for the Wisconsin Information Services (WIS) project staff, guidelines for proposals for project participation, the interview used for proposed I and R Center sites,…

To describe how Partnership for Rural Improvement (PRI) field program associates perceive themselves performing their role functions, three associates and two assistants responded to questions about: their tasks, responsibilities, and roles; how they got started; what skills they needed; and what materials or technical assistance could benefit…

During the 1979-1980 fiscal year Project C.R.E.E.P. (Community Resources in the Education of Exceptional Preschoolers) conducted outreach activities in Camden, New Jersey, in eight areas--direct and supplementary services to severely/multiply handicapped children, parent/family participation, assessment of children's progress, inservice training…

With Cooperative Extension Service (CES) help in a wide range of economic development activities rural America has come a long way in the last several decades toward erasing some of its socioeconomic problems. A survey of CES' Community and Rural Development programs conducted in late 1985 and early 1986 identified a variety of CES activities…

Communities Alive For Living and Learning (Project CALL), designed at Kishwaukee College to help three local, rural communities develop educational, recreational, and cultural programs, is described in this report. The first sections of the report consider the need for and purposes of the project. The Project Coordinator's report presents an…

A program was developed in Virginia to train Black and rural family caregivers of persons with dementia, particularly Alzheimer's disease. This final program report begins with project briefs that summarize major products and findings, program objectives and accomplishments, and dissemination activities. Chapter 1 addresses issues related to…

This paper describes a model for a literacy program proposed for the Rural Education Project at Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville. The program would target unemployed adults, at-risk youth and others in a seven-county target area whose lack of reading skills hampers their search for employment. The model calls for cooperative…