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Morrison, Sarah A. – Center for the Study of Social Policy, 2020
Over the last decade, The California Endowment (TCE) has invested in 14 communities that have historically been marginalized and denied opportunities for their residents to thrive. The initiative, known as Building Healthy Communities (BHC), focuses on creating places where children are healthy, safe, and ready to learn. Del Norte and Tribal Lands…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Community, Community Development, Health
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Johnson, Matt; Sprowles, Amy; Overeem, Katlin; Rich, Angela – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2013
A place-based learning community called "Klamath Connection" was designed to improve the academic performance of freshman in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) majors at Humboldt State University, a midsize public institution in a location geographically and culturally unfamiliar to the majority of its students. The…
Descriptors: Place Based Education, College Freshmen, State Universities, Academic Achievement
Academy for Educational Development, 2006
This "Developing Service Plans" guide is a tool to assist grantees in the development of written service plans. It provides a structure that can be tailored to meet the needs of individual grantees. Services Plans are a management tool for planning, organizing and implementing Head Start program services to children and families. As stated in the…
Descriptors: Services, Health Services, Guidelines, Alaska Natives
Stromee, Victoria Margaret – 1987
This document describes a youth suicide prevention program in Arizona developed jointly by the Help On Call Crisis Line and the Family Crisis Service to provide an area-wide school-based prevention program for use in a multicultural community. A review of programs in other cities and states is described and the decision to develop a…
Descriptors: Adolescents, American Indians, Cultural Influences, High Schools
Banathy, Bela H.; Studebaker, Diana P. – 1979
Based on concepts and approaches resulting from the development of a series of Native American Career Education instructional units in a previous project, this project was designed to assist educational staff and Indian community members at four sites to initiate development of career education programs that would use available resources and…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indians, Career Education, Demonstration Programs
Banathy, Bela H.; And Others – 1979
This guide is intended to serve as a resource for school, project, and/or community people in implementing a career education program for their Indian students. The guide is divided into four chapters, followed by an annotated bibliography. The first chapter describes the conditions and resources needed to start developing a program and how to…
Descriptors: Administrator Guides, American Indian Education, American Indians, Career Education
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Jaimes, Annette M. – Wicazo Sa Review, 1985
American Indian Studies (AIS) faces many problems in its attempt to emerge as an academic discipline, but several activities, individuals, and concepts offer possible solutions. AIS is a conceptually rudderless discipline, isolated both within the academic environment and from its cultural roots, and functioning as career ladder for those who wish…
Descriptors: Academic Education, American Indian Studies, American Indians, College Curriculum
Real Bird, Henry; And Others – 1977
Program philosophy and learning activities are presented in this teacher's guide to a supplementary reading and language development program that features stories and legends from Northwest tribes. The guide is companion to Levels I, II, and III of the Northwest Indian Reading Series which consists of 60 booklets arranged in a planned sequence…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian Literature, American Indians
Butterfield, Robin; Larvie, Colleen – 1981
This guide presents an overall plan for implementing Level IV of the Indian Reading Series, which features stories and legends of Northwest tribes in a supplementary reading and language arts development program for elementary grade Indian and non-Indian children. Introductory sections present the rationale of the program's language experience…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian History, American Indian Literature
Butterfield, Robin – 1981
This guide presents an overall plan for implementing Level V of the Indian Reading Series, which features stories and legends of Northwest tribes in a supplementary reading and language arts development program for elementary grade Indian and non-Indian children. Introductory sections present the rationale of the program's language experience…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian History, American Indian Literature
Butterfield, Robin – 1982
This guide presents an overall plan for implementing Level VI of the Indian Reading Series, which features legends and stories of Northwest tribes in a supplementary reading and language arts development program for elementary grade Indian and non-Indian children. Introductory sections present the rationale of the program's language experience…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, American Indian Education, American Indian History, American Indian Literature
Van Raalte, Robert C.; And Others – 1978
The annual report presents activities for the 1976-77 school year, the thirtieth year that the Johnson O'Malley Act (JOM) has provided impetus for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (DPI) as a subcontractor to provide supplementary services necessary to carry out educational programs afforded Indian children in public schools. Part I…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Cultural Enrichment