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Download full textColorado State Dept. of Education, Denver. Prevention Initiatives Unit. – 1993
This report describes the results of a survey on out-of-school youth's health risk behaviors. The behaviors studied include unintentional and intentional injuries; tobacco use; alcohol, and other drug use; sexual behaviors; dietary behaviors that cause health problems; mental well being; and physical inactivity. Seventy-eight percent of all the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Behavior Patterns, Child Health
Mohsini, S. R. – 1989
The "Folkehojskole," or Folk High School (more accurately translated as "People's College") which is Denmark's unique contribution to adult education, offer residential adult instruction. The aims of folk education are to help adults behave as independent and mature members of the community and think and speak freely. Emphasis…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Citizenship Education, Community Schools, Cultural Education
Schiel, Jeff – 1998
Duke University's Talent Identification Program invites seventh graders who score in the top 3% on nationally normed, standardized tests to participate in the Talent Search. A small number of these students subsequently qualify, on the basis of relatively high ACT Assessment or SAT scores, for the Summer Residential Program (SRP), which provides…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Advanced Students, College Entrance Examinations, Enrichment Activities
Matilsky, Philip – 1991
This annotated bibliography of 467 references on transition for students with disabilities lists references alphabetically by author under the following categories: a general overview; transition individualized education programs; postsecondary versus school based objectives; parents, family, friends, neighbors; identifying community agencies:…
Descriptors: Community Services, Disabilities, Education Work Relationship, Educational Planning
O'Brien, John; O'Brien, Connie Lyle – 1993
This report discusses basic issues in the provision of residential services for people with developmental disabilities. Main points of the discussion include: (1) the service system for this population is in a crisis of accountability as meeting safety and quality requirements threatens to become counterproductive; (2) the current system is well…
Descriptors: Accountability, Adults, Change Strategies, Civil Liberties
Stephens, Susan A.; Lakin, K. Charlie – 1990
This final volume of a five-volume report on instructional programs for handicapped children and youth in separate day and residential facilities throughout the United States provides additional documentation on the two surveys used in the study (volume 4 contains the survey instruments and appendix B of volume 2 describes the instrument…
Descriptors: Coding, Data Collection, Databases, Day Programs
Wasman, Marcy – 1985
The evaluation report examines the Dade-Monroe Multiagency Network for Severely Emotionally Disturbed (SED) Students, a 3-year regional (Florida) project to improve education, mental health treatment, and residential services for this population. The program's main components--a regional case management system, a computerized information system,…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Computer Oriented Programs, Computer Uses in Education, Databases
Hughes, M. Jeffry; Segall, Alexander – 1988
This study investigated the community adjustment of individuals with mental retardation who were former residents of the Manitoba Development Centre (MDC) in Canada. The study explored the combined effects of personal factors, residential factors, and neighborhood attitudes on community adjustment, to identify the best set of predictors of…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attitudes toward Disabilities, Community Programs, Daily Living Skills
Smith, Gary E.; And Others – 1975
One of two supplements which accompany chapter 2 of "Mountain-Plains Handbook: The Design and Operation of a Residential, Family Oriented Career Education Model" (CE 014 630), this document contains specific information concerning accounting procedures and forms utilized by the controller services division. Presented are step-by-step…
Descriptors: Accounting, Budgeting, Career Education, Demonstration Programs
Coyle, David A.; And Others – 1975
One of five supplements which accompany chapter three of "Mountain-Plains Handbook: The Design and Operation of a Residential, Family Oriented Career Education Model" (CE 014 630), this document contains specific information concerning testing procedures and forms utilized by the research services division. Included are the following…
Descriptors: Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged
Anderson, Newell B.; And Others – 1975
One of two supplements which accompany chapter 5 of "Mountain-Plains Handbook: The Design and Operation of a Residential, Family Oriented Career Education Model" (CE 014 630), this document contains specific information concerning the following components of the administrative services division: purchasing, property control, and…
Descriptors: Career Education, Demonstration Programs, Disadvantaged, Economically Disadvantaged
Smith, Gary E.; And Others – 1975
Intended as a budgetary guide for potential replicators, this document presents a detailed discussion of estimated costs involved in setting up and operating a program similar to the Mountin-Plains Career Education Model IV, a residential, family-based education program developed to improve the economic potential and lifestyle of selected student…
Descriptors: Accounting, Administrator Guides, Budgets, Career Education
Jenkins, Robert L., III – 1976
Focusing on program development and evaluation, this document presents the summative evaluation of the community development component of the Mountain-Plains Career Education Model IV, a residential, family-based education program developed to improve the economic potential and lifestyle of selected student families in a six-state area. The report…
Descriptors: Career Education, Community Development, Community Involvement, Demonstration Programs
Gross, Ronald – 1976
The document reports on a conference which reviewed progress of the Artists-in-Schools (AIS) program. Sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts, the program places professional artists in elementary and secondary schools for residencies of several days to a full year. Artists, educators, and AIS state coordinators who participated in the…
Descriptors: Aesthetic Education, Art, Art Activities, Art Education
Reed, Horace B. – Skidmore Alumnae Quarterly, 1967
A residential program for 150 disadvantaged junior high school students from both urban and rural areas of New York was conducted at Skidmore College. A part of Programs to Excite Potential (PEP), this pilot project is based on the hypothesis that a multisensory art experience can stimulate academic motivation and strengthen the self-confidence of…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Behavior Problems, Communication Skills, Cultural Enrichment
