A counselor and recruiter for the Madison Area Technical College describes their outreach career awareness project to correct the imbalance of minority, disadvantaged, and handicapped students in postsecondary education. Special recruitment efforts, counseling services, and followup activities will be provided, including various academic and…

Curriculum content, course objectives, and program development and implementation processes are discussed for this medical self-help training program for rural communities. (MB)

Program goals, content, and methods are described for the Cambridge and Somerville Alcohol Program for Alcoholism Rehabilitation (CASPAR), a community-school collaborative effort stressing alcohol education as opposed to alcoholism education. (MJB)

Describes On Lok, a long-term care approach which has assumed responsibility for providing all services needed by a functionally dependent adult population. Based on the first two years of operation, descriptive data on the service system, its development, participants served, services given, and costs are presented and interpreted. (JAC)

This paper describes a community outreach program that is aimed at mothers of preschool children for the purposes of primary and secondary prevention of mental illness. The goals of the group meetings are to expand the mothers' problem-solving capacities and share child-rearing experiences. The groups are lead by health care professionals. (NG)

Health problems impede the academic performance of 12 percent of students. Schools are in a unique position to help their state's Medicaid and children's health insurance programs connect with parents who lack health insurance for their children. This booklet provides suggestions to help school staff identify, inform, and help to enroll families…

Describes outreach services to isolated elderly residents in several rural areas of Colorado through the Senior Aide Program, funded by Comprehensive Employment and Training Act and other federal aid. What began as a project for seniors has in some areas become a general social services program. (MF)

Describes how Old Dominion University and the Chesapeake, Virginia, school system have cooperatively revived the "Chatauqua" model as a way of providing on-site inservice teacher education. (SJL)

The article suggests a model and plan of action designed to combat child abuse and neglect, utilizing extension education working with county agencies in developing programs to reach the target population. Community perspective, interprogram cooperation, and ways to implement programs are considered. (MF)

This article describes a model program called EXITO which was developed to help elderly Hispanics in Natalia, Texas, make use of health and social services that they had not previously taken advantage of because of low income, language and cultural differences, and geographic isolation. (EB)

Reports on three successful attempts by college history teachers to reach beyond the classroom by using radio, newspapers, and television. Programs involved pooling resources by a number of colleges, using local facilities, and appealing to local interests. (Author/CK)

The National Urban League's LEAP program has opened career opportunities for nearly 17,000 minority men and women in nine years. Aimed at getting minority groups into apprenticeships in the building and construction unions nationwide, LEAP staff recruit youths at high school career days and in less traditional places. (AJ)

Describes the Center for Engaged Scholarship at the University of South Florida, which operates from the premise that all scholarly work has potential applications beyond academia. Its activities help faculty to partner with community groups while also meeting the expectations of their departments and disciplines. (EV)

The Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development is the largest and most comprehensive effort to understand how Indian nations can overcome persistent poverty and restore their own economic vitality and social sovereignty. The project's research base, services to Indian nations, executive education, teaching, and outreach are described,…

The purpose of the study was to demonstrate that two schools which were geographically separated could be digitally included using broadband radio connections, interactive white-boards and other technologies to enable virtual interactive and collaborative lessons. The project was established to overcome a transport problem of bussing learners from…