The purposes of the Wyoming Human Services Project are delivery of human services, determination of how best to train and use human service personnel, and development of suggestions and guidelines for other rapidly growing communities about how to deliver human services most effectively. (Author/KR)

Describes outreach services to isolated elderly residents in several rural areas of Colorado through the Senior Aide Program, funded by Comprehensive Employment and Training Act and other federal aid. What began as a project for seniors has in some areas become a general social services program. (MF)

Provides impressionistic reflection of how human service agencies in San Jose, California have helped refugee families from war-torn Cambodia and Bosnia. Summarizes some of the lessons learned from working with refugee families. Notes that the experiences have influenced the capacity- building, empowering, and mentoring aspects of a new…

The overall objective of the Program for Alternative Careers in Education (PACE) is to develop an alternative model of teacher preparation that prepares individuals to function as educators in the widest possible variety of educational institutions including public and private human service institutions, social welfare agencies, communication…

A program was introduced by the provincial government of Alberta to meet the special needs of children from birth to eight years of age and their parents. The program plan was to coordinate the agencies which provide educational, home based health and resource services to young children and their families. (SE)

Principles of social perception that undermine the situation of persons with disabilities are examined with a view to proposing safeguards against their destructive potential. They are considered within three main topics: (a) person versus environmental attribution, (b) spread and the coping-succumbing frameworks, and (c) co-management and the…

Describes cooperative planning among a non-profit metropolitan tuberculosis sanitorium, a state vocational rehabilitation service and a medical center to provide a comprehensive rehabilitation program at Lakeshore Hospital, Birmingham, Alabama. (Author/EJT)

Examines four innovative staff training programs in Florida, Tennessee, Ohio, and Washington: four states with varying human service traditions and social needs. Maintains that those involved with the design and development of child protective services training programs should take into account the significant strides made by these four programs.…

This report describes the Hotels-Motels in Partnership Program, a human services resource sponsored by the Red Cross and other organizations to respond to housing needs of the homeless, disaster victims, and others in need of emergency assistance. The partnership program involves several hundred businesses in more than 240 communities. Since its…

This monograph describes and analyzes recent efforts to develop measurable units for human services in the social services and mental health services areas. The issues surrounding the "unit of service" are examined along with the problems encountered by the system designer or information user in past projects, and some of today's more…

This report provides an overview of neighborhood-based family-support programs and describes the development of the family-support movement. It includes sections on the definition of neighborhood-based family-support programs, the principles and theories on which they are based, a discussion of the problems they are designed to address, a…

This presentation describes a program being developed at South Plains College (SPC) of Lubbock to train paraprofessional helpers at the two-year degree level. As an interface between the training of helpers at the four-year and graduate degree levels of preparation and the non-degree or extra-degree level of preparation in the helping professions,…

Describes the Human Resources Center at Albertson, Long Island. Outlines the various aspects of the Center's program including the placement process, developing job seeking skills and the relations of the Center with employers and companies. (EJT)

The Youth and Community Services Program was designed for the education of human services professionals and paraprofessionals. Two parallel programs were implemented in 1973--a two-year program at Staten Island Community College and a four-year program at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. At Staten Island, the curriculum involved…

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…