This paper describes a self help telephone service for women. The primary focus was the woman within the traditional nuclear family with peer counseling provided by volunteers. The service sees itself as a self help association of women banding together and pooling resources. It has been successful in reaching many women. (NG)

The article describes the process and activities of the outreach phase of the Model Vision Project (Tennessee) for multihandicapped and visually impaired children and youth. The project has two replication sites for the purpose of stimulating awareness and for which the model provides technical assistance. (PHR)

Discusses the activities of the Education Department at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, including the local education outreach program and the Partners in Education program promoting school-community partnerships. (SR)

To help fulfill the goal of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), high-quality postsecondary education opportunities must be available to all students. In keeping with this goal, the Federal TRIO programs and Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) program provide outreach and support to help low-income and first-generation college students, as…

The Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) is an independent, not-for-profit corporation designated as the administrator of the federal Universal Service Fund (USF) by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). USAC administers the Universal Service Fund and the four Universal Service programs: High Cost, Low Income, Rural Health Care,…

It is a difficult time for policymakers, business leaders, and education leaders to think about ways to increase the numbers of students graduating from high school prepared for college and the work force when their focus is on reducing budgets. But now is the best time to plan for the future. Now is the time to explore programs that may bear…

Project UPSTART, during this fourth year of outreach, offered assistance in replicating its developed Sequenced Neuro-Sensorimotor Program (SNSP) for severely multihandicapped infants, pre-schoolers, young adults and their families. Future replication sites were identified. Programs received outreach assistance in the areas of staff training,…

This article describes a life-skills program, in a community college, with its major objective to assist disadvantaged adults in obtaining employment opportunities. There is a need for faculty to respond to the culturally different and for new teaching consistent with learning styles of the alienated. Specific program guide-lines are presented.…

The project described was undertaken at a private residential juvenile treatment center for boys 10 to 18 years old to present programs that would motivate reading and stimulate interest in human interrelationships. Staff sensitivity sessions, selection of current interest paperback books and magazines, and construction of storage units within…

The document, over three-fourths of which consists of appendixes, presents the 1978-79 final performance report for Project Outreach, the informational extension of the Infant Program for Visually Imapired (IPVI). Materials and media produced by Project Outreach are based on direct experience with visually impaired preschool children through the…

A woman who is raped needs factual information concerning hospital and legal procedures and an emotional support system to help her focus her feelings into productive channels. This article describes a training and outreach program combining rape simulation, film, lecture, and experiential discussion to stimulate thought, action, and increased…

This report examines some of the ways a sample of Pennsylvania health care providers participating in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) strive to ensure that the children they serve make use of preventive health care. The report also identifies how managed care organizations or benefits administrators contracting with the…

The Healthy Start and Healthy Families programs offer children up to age 19, parents, and pregnant women in Ohio the health services families need, including doctor's visits, prescriptions, hospitalization, immunizations, prenatal care, eyeglasses, dental care, and mental health care. This tool kit was designed to help practitioners in programs…

This paper presents the activities of the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC) for 2009. The past year was one of accomplishment for USAC. USAC implemented a host of advances in operations, infrastructure, and outreach in an effort to continue to improve collection and disbursement of the Universal Service Fund (USF) support and to…