The Indian Child Welfare Program of the Jewish Family and Children's Service of Phoenix, Arizona is described. Section I provides a description of the program's organizational structure and purposes, which include adoption services, foster care and social work, a residential group home for adolescent Indian women, and a training and consultation…

Token management procedures, initiated in a community residential home for six reatarded subjects, were designed to affect social behaviors and personal care habits. Two delivery formats were used, one in which prior announcement of reinforcement contingencies was explained, a second in which target behaviors were consequated as they occurred. The…

In a discussion of several liberal education programs for executives, those run for American Telephone and Telegraph at the University of Pennsylvania, Swarthmore College, Dartmouth College, Williams College, Northwestern University, and programs at Clark University, Southwestern University, Wabash College, Pomona College, Aspen Institute, the…

This was a pioneer empirical study of the effectiveness of residential and nonresidential adult education programs. Two similar courses in insurance fundamentals were given by the same instructor, for the same length of time, and with the same objectives. One eight day residential course for 60 participants was held at the Michigan State Kellogg…

An analysis of residential continuing education programs conducted by University Conference Services at Michigan State University's Kellogg Center for Continuing Education was conducted in order to develop an instrument and methodology with universal application to measure conference success and participant satisfaction. Data were gathered from…

Project Open Future offers a summer residential program and Saturday classes during the school year to about 200 disadvantaged junior high school students selected from the East Los Angeles, Compton, and Watts areas. Instruction is given in reading, written and verbal expression, mathematics, science, and social studies. Computer training and a…

Since its founding in 1862, Vaughan College of the University of Leicester has moved from a working men's institute offering elementary education to adults through a period of domination by the Workers' Education Association (WEA) to become a lively institution offering to adults university level courses in several locations. During 1946-1966, the…

Described is a milieu intervention scheme for treatment of disturbed deaf children (6 to 18 years old) in a residential school for the deaf. It is noted that the program sought to develop respect and awareness of the self and social group within the security of a specifically adapted environment and to support reintegration into the social,…

The manual on residential farmer training provides guidance to the extension staff of all agencies concerned with rural development, with special reference to the principals and teaching staffs of training centers, and the informational and training needs of the smaller farmer. The manual was prepared as a result of recommendations made by…

The demonstration project report describes a successful adult basic education program in music as a device for expanding the learning potential of the emotionally disturbed and mentally deficient residents of the Woodbury (Iowa) County Home. Background information on the project and a description of its progress, including the need for…

Evaluated was the effectiveness of a 10-session parent training program to instruct three sets of parents in methods of behavioral management techniques with their emotionally disturbed children (ages 5- to 8-year-old) who were receiving short term treatment in a residential facility. Home visits before and after training recorded rates of…

The report provides statistical data useful to persons responsible for providing special education and related supportive services in Illinois for the mentally retarded and the emotionally disturbed. The data concern children and adolescents in these categories, aged 5-20 years, who are receiving special education services primarily in Department…

Designed for use by government or voluntary agencies providing residential group care for children, the manual presents guidelines for initial review and year end interpretation of agency operations along with three worksheets for agency expenses. Additional worksheets and guidelines are included for parent organization expenses and evaluation of…

Reported are results of a survey (1972) to determine trends in residential services for the mentally retarded, with particular focus on residential facilities, community involvement, and placement procedures. Respondents (62% of 211 questionnaires sent) represent public residential care facilities in the United States and Canada, or are state…

It was the purpose of this study to examine and evaluate the feasibility of involving cable television systems in central Appalachia with efforts toward rural community development. A variety of research procedures were employed, including a questionnaire on community needs, a telephone survey of cable facilities, a mail survey of programming…