Objectives of the 3-year Volunteers in Rehabilitation Project (VIR) were to (1) document the scope and extent of volunteer participation within rehabilitation facilities, (2) prepare and test the effectiveness of handbooks designed to promote and improve volunteer programs, and (3) provide training experiences that could modify negative attitudes…

This informal study sought to determine the effectiveness of paraprofessionals in extension work dealing with the development and expansion of youth programs in disadvantaged areas of St. Louis. Program objectives were: (1) to reach more youth in educational programs sensitive to the life style of urban youth; (2) to develop new ways of recruiting…

Volume I of this final report, an overview of Kentucky's multi-county Rural Child Care Project, describes the project's history, purposes, structure, and procedures in administering child-development, social-work and homemaking services. The day care program, which became a full-year Head Start program in 1967, is one aspect of the effort to…