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1977
The final report documents activities of a 3-year child abuse and neglect demonstration unit in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. The history of the project is reviewed along with the following project components: organization/staffing, case identification, coordination, community education, professional development, case management, research and evaluation,…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Neglect, Community Coordination, Community Education
Natrona County School District, Casper, WY. – 1976
A three-year model project in career education was undertaken to accomplish several goals, including the following: to provide a strong guidance and counseling program; to design programs to increase self-awareness, favorable attitudes, and career decision-making skills; and to provide career orientation and exploratory experiences for students.…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Involvement, Community Resources, Demonstration Programs
Holmes, Monica B.; And Others – 1974
This report evaluates a three-year-demonstration program in child advocacy, created as part of existing Head Start Parent-Child Centers to meet the needs of children under 5 and their families. Local services were integrated and new services created in a variety of areas (health, housing, education and welfare) using a primarily paraprofessional…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Community Resources, Demonstration Programs, Family Programs
Goldberg, Milton – 1973
This report discusses Philadelphia's Follow Through program placing the project in its historical context. Growing out of the curriculum reform movement of the fifties and sixties, as well as Project Head Start and the War on Poverty, the Follow Through program was an attempt to maintain and reinforce the gains made by low-income children in…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs
Harris, Dolores M. – 1977
A demonstration adult education project aimed at a rural New Jersey population and involving class sessions 1 evening per week at 6 sites (N=85 students, including 65 caucasians, 10 blacks, and 10 Hispanic) was evaluated in terms of compliance, process, and performance. Compliance monitoring included examination of: visitations; budget; staff…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Advisory Committees, Attendance Records, Budgets
Chapman, Jane E.; And Others – 1973
This first year progress report describes a comprehensive, coordinated child care program for employee and student families in a medical center community. The model child care system as conceptualized in this project provides: (1) a Counseling-Coordination Office for compiling community resource information and assistance-in-placement services,…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Child Care, Community Coordination, Community Involvement
Lincoln Public Schools, NE. – 1976
Description of the placement component of the Lincoln Career Education Project is contained in this report, covering the period of 1973-1976. Objectives, procedures followed, and project results and accomplishments are reported in detail. Results of the project included the establishment and refinement of the general concept of career education…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Community Resources, Cooperative Programs
Waterbury Board of Education, CT. – 1971
The intent of this exemplary program in prevocational education was to enhance the vocational awareness and aspirations of 238 disadvantaged seventh and eighth grade students of Puerto Rican background through an extensive career orientation program consisting of curriculum reform and co-curricular activities. The program's activities and…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Community Resources, Curriculum Design, Curriculum Development
Far West Lab. for Educational Research and Development, San Francisco, CA. – 1973
The report for FY 1973 describes the planning and implementation of the secondary level Employer Based Career Education Program at Far West School (FWS). The report's introduction briefly describes the program's nature and objectives. Section 2, student recruitment and enrollment, describes the student population and the recruitment and selection…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Education, Community Resources, Demonstration Programs
Urban and Rural Systems Associates, San Francisco, CA. – 1977
This draft report on the development and testing of a child care Provider Services Network (PSN) model in Santa Clara County, California, includes a handbook (Manual to Optimize a PSN) designed to provide the State Department of Education and regional or local child care coordinating agencies with information needed to develop PSN optimization…
Descriptors: Agency Role, Child Caregivers, Community Coordination, Community Organizations
Peters, Richard – 1978
The Career Awareness Program (CAP) not only showed how improved school-community relations impact on quality instruction and student growth, but also resulted in identification of variables which affect curriculum change and program development in small, rural schools; these variables were administrative philosophies, community attitudes and…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Career Exploration, Community Resources
Austin Independent School District, TX. – 1981
The Redirected Homemakers Project began in August, 1979, as a program to aid displaced homemakers in the assessment and development of skills which could be translated into meaningful, salaried work. The project operated within the office of Community Education of the Austin (Texas) Independent School District. Within the structure of the school…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Education, Community Resources, Demonstration Programs
Jackson, Frances – 1980
A project designed and demonstrated a career guidance model for academically gifted female students to overcome problems associated with non-traditional career choices and sex-role stereotyping. Academically gifted females were identified in grades 6 and 10-12. Parent involvement was actively solicited to facilitate non-traditional career…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Career Choice, Career Education, Career Exploration
Arter, Rhetta M. – 1975
The findings of the independent evaluation of Operation COPE are reported, with reference to the project sponsors' contractual commitments, in a series of categorical statements congruent with the evaluators' conclusion that the demonstration ABE project for young mothers in Washington, D.C., represented a "spectrum of success hues." The…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Agency Cooperation, Black Organizations, Community Resources
Seibles, Mary, Comp. – 1984
This catalog, the seventh in a series of annual listings of special adult education projects, was developed to facilitate the exchange of programmatic information among adult education practitioners about projects funded by states under Section 310 of the Adult Education Act. This catalog contains 382 project abstracts from 46 states. The…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Basic Education, Adult Education, Community Resources