This report presents important issues involved in the use of volunteers in the juvenile justice system. Chapter I discusses volunteer program designs, organizational structure, potential program applications, and public relations. Chapter II reviews the volunteer: who he is, his motives for volunteering, and suggestions for recruiting, screening,…

APPROXIMATELY 1200 PROGRAMS ARE LISTED WITH TITLE, AUTHOR, DATE OF PUBLICATION, PUBLISHER, PRICE, COUNTRY OF ORIGIN, DATE OF LATEST EDITION IF REVISED, MONTHLY RENTAL PRICE, TYPE OF PROGRAM, NUMBER OF FRAMES, NUMBER OF PAGES IF A BOOK PROGRAM, TARGET POPULATION, STUDY TIME, AVAILABILITY FOR MACHINE USE, AND SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIALS WITH THEIR…

Describes the Connecticut Unit of Service System, a unified system for quantifying services and service delivery that is administratively useful in monitoring and allocating resources. Includes a Relative Value Scale which incorporates staff time and related work to allow a comparison of inpatient and outpatient service. (JAC)

This article describes Special Arts Projects in South Carolina, New Mexico, and Kentucky and is the first of several articles that will show how federal funds are being used to support the arts in our schools. (Editor/RK)

This document, in tabular form, is a summary, by state and project location of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Title VII grant award totals for 1975. Data presented for each project includes: project location and name of local educational agency, Office of Education grant number, previous years in force, number of years negotiated,…

An explanation is presented of the efforts performed by the Tennessee Technological University in conducting follow-up studies of its teacher education program graduates. A history of follow-up studies dating from 1964 is given, and a list is provided of special studies undertaken to assist in program development and redesign and to meet the…

An evaluation of a 3-year child abuse program, involving 11 demonstration centers, had two major objectives: (1) to test different strategies for tackling the child abuse problem and (2) to study carefully the successes and failures of the various projects. (CS)

Written for the general audience concerned with management information systems for use by vocational education agencies, this document is one of six describing the Management Information System for Vocational Education (MISVE), and provides a capsule summary of the major purposes and features of MISVE, which was designed to provide users with an…

A successful series of workshops was planned and implemented in a rural area of Michigan where travel distances and lack of financial support from health care agencies were barriers to continuing education. Data obtained from a survey of 150 nurses identified priority subject areas and resource persons. (MS)

An elementary school shop program was suggested as an idea solution for teaching values and developing student self-concept. (Author/RK)

Training people to become self-sufficient doers instead of remaining passive watchers is the aim of the Environmental Learning Center in Minnesota's far north woods. (Editor)

Describes a two-day environmental camping experience for 180 sixth-graders in Windham, Maine. (JM)

This document profiles 150 Federal benefit programs that provide cash on noncash assistance to persons demonstrating need or who qualify for benefits as a result of either contributions made by them or on their behalf or military service. These programs spent more than $400 billion in Federal tax dollars in fiscal year 1983, excluding…

The report presents the results of an evaluation of New York's 13 Alcoholism Treatment Centers (ATCs). The goals of the evaluation were to review the role of the ATCs in relation to other alcoholism treatment facilities, to assess their effectiveness and efficiency, and to determine how much money is collected for service provided to patients.…