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Download full textPeace Corps, Washington, DC. Information Collection and Exchange Div. – 1994
The Peace Corps Programming and Training System (PATS) manual is designed to help field staff members of the Peace Corps train volunteers. This supplement to the PATS manual was developed to provide complementary information about key aspects of Peace Corps programming and training for youth development. It is intended for individuals involved in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adult Education, Community Programs, Developing Nations
Greaser, Thomas C., Jr. – 1995
This practicum was designed to provide an after-school activity program to middle school students not engaged in interscholastic sports. Utilizing community volunteers, an enrichment-prevention program that featured 19 different activities in 2 class sessions per week over a 10-week period was developed and implemented. Activities included…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Community Involvement, Enrichment Activities, Intermediate Grades
Development and Resources Corp. – 1982
This manual was prepared for use by Peace Corps trainees and volunteers as a resource in gaining understanding and knowledge of basic irrigation principles and practices. It is intended as a practical handbook that can be understood by a generalist, with subject areas limited to those observed as being of most frequent concern to volunteers in…
Descriptors: Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural Machinery, Agricultural Production, Agricultural Skills
Kilcrease, Maxine Wallender – 1989
This document describes a community resource plan developed for rural special educators at a small elementary school near Salem, Oregon. The plan was designed for the specific needs of rural special educators, who generally have greater need for materials, personnel support, and financing than their urban counterparts. The resource plan includes:…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Educational Planning, Elementary Education, Learning Centers (Classroom)
Bailey, Bruce E.; Ray, Patricia E. – 1983
This guide describes the organization, administration, and maintenance of a student volunteer program designed to provide experiential learning to students and paraprofessional staff in rural human service agencies. The need for volunteer paraprofessionals in rural human service agencies, the benefits of a student volunteer program to both…
Descriptors: College Students, Experiential Learning, Field Experience Programs, Higher Education
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. Information Collection and Exchange Div. – 2001
This booklet is one of five in the Peace Corps (PC) Programming and Training Guidelines collection that provides agency-wide programming and training guidance for PC staff and project partners. It offers PC staff and others a step-by-step approach for designing or revising a project, beginning with analyzing the situation in a country and ending…
Descriptors: Community Development, Data Collection, Developing Nations, Foreign Countries
Peace Corps, Washington, DC. Information Collection and Exchange Div. – 2001
This booklet is one of five in the Peace Corps (PC) Programming and Training Guidelines collection that provides agency-wide programming and training guidance for PC staff and project partners. It shows how to design and implement a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) plan for PC projects. Chapter 1 provides an overview of M&E, including what…
Descriptors: Community Development, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Developing Nations
Baucom, Linda D., Ed. – 1980
Written primarily for founders and coordinators of citizen advocacy (CA) programs for the developmentally disabled, the manual provides practical tips on how to establish and administer a CA program. Part 1 (six chapters) gives an overview of citizen advocacy and tells how to start a CA program--how to assess community support, find a sponsor,…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Developmental Disabilities, Program Development, Program Implementation
Thorp, Kathlyn; Maloney, Dennis – Change: A Juvenile Justice Quarterly, 1982
Describes a Wisconsin program which is aimed at delinquency prevention. Discusses program development, components, and theory; and the requirements of leadership, volunteers, and youth involvement. Journal available from National Office for Social Responsibility, 208 North Washington, Alexandria, VA 22314. (CT)
Descriptors: Delinquency, Delinquency Prevention, Leadership Responsibility, Program Development
Peer reviewedvan der Eyken, Willem – Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Problems, 1994
Voices of Pioneers section features Margaret Harrison of United Kingdom who founded HOME-START movement in Leicester, England, in 1973. Notes that HOME-START now has 150 programs throughout United Kingdom and in other countries and that program trains volunteers to offer support, friendship, and practical help to young families under stress in…
Descriptors: Family Problems, Foreign Countries, Home Programs, Mothers
Peer reviewedMoy, Laurie – Journal of Volunteer Administration, 2002
People with Disabilities Uganda has a corps of 150 online volunteers who work on research, website management, newsletters, marketing and promotions, and program development. People volunteer online for convenience and anonymity. Management of online volunteers requires attention to written communication; a web group is a useful management tool.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Electronic Mail, Foreign Countries, Internet
Hacienda La Puente Unified School District, City of Industry, CA. – 1993
A cooperative literacy education program involving Mexico and the United States' border states is documented. The project has three objectives: to (1) implement the Mexican literacy agency's approach to promoting literacy among native Spanish speakers; (2) coordinate U.S./Mexico literacy task force activities; and (3) develop an immigrants' rights…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Civil Liberties, Curriculum Development
Tecumseh Consortium, Springfield, OH. – 1990
The Literacy and Career Choices program included several initiatives to address problems of illiteracy in Champaign, Clark, Greene, Madison, and Union Counties, Ohio. A special adult basic education program for deaf adults was established. Twenty-one deaf adults with basic literacy skill needs were identified, and individual service plans were…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Career Education, Deafness
Bockbrader, Golda – 1989
Based on a successful project in Nebraska, this manual was developed for use in establishing a structured all-volunteer adult basic education (ABE) program in small communities or satellite locations. The greater part of the manual covers the various steps a volunteer leader should follow to establish this kind of program, beginning with a section…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Advisory Committees, Evaluation Methods
Leggette, Earl C.; And Others – 1979
This paper reports the result of a three-year research project that implemented the idea of university professors as volunteers to provide released time for public school inservice teachers. It reviews the conception of the idea and gives a detailed account of an actual experiment involving a group of professors and a local high school. The…
Descriptors: College Faculty, College School Cooperation, Inservice Teacher Education, Junior High Schools
