The number of homeless children and youth in the United States is on the rise (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 2016). Between 2016 and 2017 in the Los Angeles County Homeless Count, there was a 41% increase in the number of homeless minors (The Los Angeles Service Authority, 2017). Education is key to bringing people out of…

Use and effectiveness of mobile units in family planning programs of several foreign countries are surveyed in this demographic report. Services and education provided by mobile unit programs in Tunisia, the United Arab Republic, Honduras, South Korea, Turkey, and Pakistan are examined. Assessed are the various roles mobile units play, their…

A mobile inservice unit providing continuing education for staff members of nursing homes, extended care facilities, and small hospitals has been developed by Phoenix College for Maricopa County, Arizona. (LH)

Eighteen promising practices in career education are described by title, location, needs, history of development, description of the practice, specific considerations for implementation, vital statistics, evaluation and contact for further information. Each is a small school practice which "works" for that school. Practices are grouped within four…

A project to investigate the feasibility and effectiveness of a Mobile Career Guidance Laboratory is described and evaluated in detail in the document. Designed to serve all ninth grade students on Guam by providing group counseling and access to materials regarding career education, the mobile unit moved from school to school. Faculty orientation…

Communication between the career planning and placement office and the students at one institution was a problem until the inception of a mobile information center. (Author)

History of a mobile classroom. (Editor)

Describes a program for training day care providers in which resource specialists visited caregivers in Seattle and surrounding suburban and rural areas in a specially equipped and staffed van. Outcomes of the program as well as trainee characteristics are reported. (RH)

Mixing education with entertainment, the Asolo Touring Theater brings its repertory of plays and student and teacher workshops on theater arts to school audiences in the southeastern states. The article describes the types of productions (participation, traditional, and famous plays) presented for three audience levels from primary through…

Describes the design, implementation, and impact of the Mobile Training for Directors of Day Care Centers (MTDDC) Program, a program that was created to provide directors with information to improve their administrative and organizational skills. (Author/RH)

Describes an experimental educational alternative in Brazil which uses mobile units in an attempt to bring vocational skills and continuing education to rural families. (TA)

Describes a training program undertaken by the Kentucky River Foothills Head Start and Eastern Kentucky University that uses a computer-equipped mobile learning lab. The project brings staff training and adult education opportunities to Head Start programs that have limited technological resources. The van contains eight networked computer…

A mobile continuing education program at Arizona State University College of Nursing is described. A van equipped with audio-visual aids and a lending library is used by a nursing faculty member to present instruction to registered nurses and other health personnel in northern Arizona. (MS)