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Payam Sheikhattari; Jummai Apata; Gillian Beth Silver; Shiva Mehravaran; Emma Mitchell; Shervin Assari – Metropolitan Universities, 2023
Community-based participatory research (CBPR) is an effective approach for addressing health disparities by integrating diverse knowledge and expertise from both academic and community partners throughout the research process. However, universities and funding agencies have not done enough to invest in the foundational infrastructure and resources…
Descriptors: Higher Education, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Research
Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2013
Making Connections was the Annie E. Casey Foundation's signature place-based, community-change initiative of the 2000s. It sought to build on previous work and launch an effort focused firmly on the framework of family strengthening. The Foundation started Making Connections in 22 places, focusing eventually on first 10, then seven sites. It…
Descriptors: Family Involvement, Change Strategies, Program Development, Program Implementation
Gent, Pamela J. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2009
Classrooms across the country are discovering the power of service-learning--the ideal way to help students develop social and academic skills while giving back to their community. Now for the first time, there's a practical how-to guide on using serving-learning to promote inclusion and differentiate instruction for students with and without…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Individualized Instruction, Elementary Secondary Education, Inclusive Schools
Child Day Care Planning Project, Cleveland, OH. – 1988
This report describes the Child Day Care Planning Project, which was developed by private and public representatives to meet the needs for child care in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The project consisted of five major components. The first component, the Data Project, documented the needs and resources of the community. The second component, the Quality…
Descriptors: Community Needs, Community Programs, Consumer Economics, Day Care
World Health Organization, Geneva (Switzerland). – 1987
Addressed to the directors, deans, and faculties of medical and other health-related schools, this booklet contains a detailed explanation of the meaning of community-based education. It opens with a brief account of trends in both industrialized and developing countries that have created a demand for health personnel capable of responding more…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Community Education, Community Involvement, Community Needs
Cuddeback, Catharine, Comp.; Richardson, Mary Jo, Comp. – 1987
This manual is designed mainly to assist persons or groups interested in starting or expanding school age child care programs (SACCP). The seven sections explore (1) survey findings on the status of school age child care in Minnesota; (2) types of SACCPs in the state; (3) the need for school age child care in Minnesota; (4) public policy issues…
Descriptors: Certification, Childhood Needs, Classification, Community Needs
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Brazil, Kevin; And Others – Evaluation and Program Planning, 1993
The mental health needs of children and youth with learning disabilities and their families were studied in a survey of 79 human services directors in the Toronto (Canada) area. The study illustrates the importance of involving relevant communities in planning for community needs assessment and program implementation. (SLD)
Descriptors: Administrators, Adolescents, Childhood Needs, Children
Oklahoma State Dept. of Career and Technology Education, Stillwater. – 2002
This career activity file provides career information resources and tools to support a guidance program. Section 1 is a school guidance program plan designed to assist school counselors in strengthening their current program or in designing a new one. The information can be used to assist schools in meeting the requirements of Standard VI,…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Guidance, Career Planning
Wentling, Tim L.; Piland, William E. – 1982
This document, one of 12 guides that have been developed to facilitate evaluation by and for local education agency (LEA) personnel in Illinois, covers vocational needs assessment to identify discrepancies between the needs of the community and the school programs available to meet those needs. The guide has been designed to aid the person who has…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Vocational Education, Community Needs, Demand Occupations
Scannell, Tess; Roberts, Angela – 1994
This document is designed to enlarge and expand the intergenerational community service mission and serve as a practical tool to anyone (including policymakers and program planning professionals) who wishes to learn about or start intergenerational community service programs (ICSPs). The following ICSP topics are discussed: rationale (building…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Community Needs, Community Programs