A county wide approach was effective in assisting communities to establish sex education programs in their schools. It was a united effort involving many individuals in all phases of planning. The county committee provided the incentive, leadership, resources and support to communities that wanted to establish sex education programs. (Author)

A model for involving local planning and support committees in the process of planning Wisconsin county extension education programs was developed as a way of improving the planning of extension programs statewide. The key components of the planning model developed were (1) the use of influential officials and community representatives and (2) the…

Lehigh County Community College (Pennsylvania) and the Lehigh County Senior Citizens' Center collaborated on a project to assess the learning needs of the senior center's 1,600 members. A needs assessment completed by 68 center members and interviews of an additional 38 center members established that senior citizens preferred short-term workshops…