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Download full textVogel, Allyn; And Others – 1978
The third and final volume of a project designed to help North Carolina counties plan community based facilities for status offenders describes an approach to evaluating existing programs and proposed new ones. Instructions are given for collection of data on service resources through completion of worksheets specifying information on such topics…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Program Costs, Program Development, Program Effectiveness
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Health, Education, and Human Services Div. – 1996
AmeriCorps is the largest national and community service program since the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s. Data from meeting with officials of AmeriCorps*USA; examination of grant files for all grantees' programs; review of Corporation program policies, guidance, and plans; random sampling of programs; and site visits to seven…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Educational Finance, Federal Programs, Program Costs
Development Associates, Inc., Arlington, VA. – 1993
The Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA) program was evaluated from the standpoint of its impact on three groups: VISTA volunteers, communities served by VISTA sponsors, and sponsoring organizations to which VISTA volunteers are assigned. Survey questionnaires were sent to 1,250 of the 3,400 VISTA volunteers currently in service, 494 current…
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Community Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Federal Programs
Mangum, Garth; Snedeker, David – Manpower, 1974
Manpower planners must have the ability to draw on a variety of resources which are the key to the success of local manpower programs. (BP)
Descriptors: Community Programs, Community Resources, Labor Force Development, Local Issues
Cardona, Carlos Castillo; And Others – 1993
This paper describes the Programme for Home-Based Community Day Care, a training program undertaken by the Colombian Family Welfare Institute. The program offers training and support to mothers so that they can each care in their homes for up to 15 children from the local community. Now in its sixth year, the project reaches nearly 1 million…
Descriptors: Childrens Rights, Community Programs, Early Childhood Education, Family Day Care
Blalock, Ann Bonar, Ed.; And Others – 1990
This book on evaluating social programs is an outcome of the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) Evaluation Design Project, which produced a set of 10 guides for the evaluation of state and local JTPA programs. This book distills ideas from these guides and applies them to a larger context. Part 1 presents a general approach to program evaluation…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Cost Effectiveness, Education Work Relationship, Employment Programs
Lucas, Geoffrey S. – 1985
A study examined nontraditional, community-based rural General Educational Development (GED) programming outreach efforts in Pennsylvania. Data for the study were obtained through two computerized bibliographic searches, interviews and phone calls to the GED Testing Division of the Pennsylvania Department of Education, and from phone calls to the…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Students, Community Education, Community Programs
Education Writers Association, Washington, DC. – 1991
Six reporters in diverse areas looked at how their communities were responding to adult literacy, basic skills, and workplace literacy programs. This guide contains six reports, three in each of its two parts: (1) Reporting on Welfare Reform--Is the Story Literacy or Decent Jobs? and (2) Reporting on Literacy Programs--Is There a…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Basic Skills, Community Programs
