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Duran, Elva – Education, 1984
Argues in favor of community-based vocational training for severely handicapped autistic adolescents and gives points to consider in establishing such a program in the school curricula. Offers suggestions for identifying and using community resources. Explains the use of task analysis in student training and discusses student and program…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Community Resources, Normalization (Handicapped)

Crocombe, N. G. – Australian Journal of Adult Education, 1980
Community education is concerned with the development of the individual and the development of the community to improve the quality of life. Community colleges act as catalysts by coordinating citizen and agency participation and community resources to improve educational opportunities for all. (SK)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Colleges, Community Education, Community Resources
Riddick, Carol Cutler – 1977
The process called deinstitutionalization, whether of the elderly or mentally disabled, involves complex issues, not the least of which are economic, physical, social, and psychological costs; any attempt to further this process perforce needs a comprehensive, specific plan suited to community needs and to those who are to be served. A workable…
Descriptors: Adults, Community Organizations, Community Resources, Community Role

Kelly, James G. – Journal of Rural Community Psychology, 1986
Discusses common themes in five papers on rural community psychology: myth that rural life is naturally supportive, importance of community needs in designing prevention programs, risks of labeling diseases, rural psychologists as developers/advocates, using advice/direct suggestion, thinking in systems/ecological terms, role/boundary conflicts,…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Characteristics, Community Coordination, Community Development
Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA, 2005
Few would argue against the idea of planning and implementing improvements to the nation's schools. This report contends, school improvement planning processes have frequently not been conceived in ways likely to produce desired learning outcomes for many students. The analyses presented in this report focus on a lack of attention to how schools…
Descriptors: Emotional Problems, Program Evaluation, Educational Improvement, Program Effectiveness