This study used ethnographic case-study methods to document four school-linked service initiatives that are moving in the direction of collaboration among local agencies and schools, and family empowerment. The projects vary in terms of population served and programmatic focus, and each program has one or more of the components required to make…

Primary support programs may be identified as programs, places, and activities beyond schools that are available to and appropriate for all children and their families and that supplement the family's own capacity to promote its children's safe and healthy development. This report examines 77 quality youth-serving programs that provide some…

Describes an interdisciplinary environmental program, instigated at the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, that is designed to utilize the community as a learning resource and to stimulate university/community interaction. The Kewaunee River watershed project involves university and high school students, faculty, and the community. (JR)

Describes a program at Delta College (Michigan) which attempts to remove financial, geographical, psychological, and social barriers to existing services to integrate older adults into the service population, and which offers specialized services focusing on gerontological service, training, and development to meet the individual and group needs…

Old Sturbridge in central Massachusetts, a recreated New England Village of the period 1790-1840, is a museum of the past which includes a learning center with reproductions of artifacts used in the period, with demonstration areas, and a teacher center where resource materials for class use are available. (MF)

Counselors are the mental health specialists in the schools, according to the author. As such, they should call upon the community's mental health services in an effort to provide better school services through a cooperative effort. (Author/HMV)

Mental health resources on most college campuses are taxed to their limits. A program to develop the faculty's "counseling skills" is discussed. (Author)

The hometown of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University has created the Blacksburg Electronic Village, a community-based computer network linking businesses, schools, and individual community members. The university, telephone company, and town established the system collaboratively in 1992, and additional grants have come to the…

The Optometric Center of Los Angeles provides students of the Southern California College of Optometry with an urban clinical environment that incorporates diversity, high levels of pathology, and community involvement. Through networking with outside agencies and with foundation help, the center provides a valuable educational setting for…

Three successful college-community relations programs include weekly televised conversations between president, students, faculty, and staff (University of Michigan); a neighborhood outreach and college awareness program (Virginia Wesleyan College); and a conference to help campus and community understand motives of and reactions to prejudice and…

Offers statistics on family violence in the United States. Indicates that, although the concept of family violence is diametrically opposed to the philosophical and spiritual beliefs of indigenous peoples, it is pervasive in Native American communities. Urges tribal colleges to acknowledge its presence and confront its causes. (DMM)

The discourse of sustainability is promoted internationally, with the United Nations declaring 2005-2014 as a Decade for Education for Sustainable Development. There is discussion concerning the nature, status and significance of Education for Sustainability and its relationship with the somewhat established discourse of environmental education.…

Prior to the opening of a rurally located treatment program for public inebriates, a concentrated public relations effort was made to inform and reassure the inhabitants of the local and surrounding neighborhoods about the program. Community sentiments four years later are discussed. (Author)