The Healthy Start and Healthy Families programs offer children up to age 19, parents, and pregnant women in Ohio the health services families need, including doctor's visits, prescriptions, hospitalization, immunizations, prenatal care, eyeglasses, dental care, and mental health care. This tool kit was designed to help practitioners in programs…

Discussion of the public library's need to provide personal and crisis information to teenagers highlights ways to meet their needs, e.g., gaining credibility, promoting services; outreach activities, e.g., booktalking, information resource files; cooperative activities with community services and agencies; and teenagers as a natural resource.…

The author discusses the concepts of community most appropriate to adult education, integrating various theoretical perspectives. He presents a conceptual typology of three dimensions of community practice: adult education for the community, adult education in the community, and adult education of the community. (Author/SK)

This survey of suicide prevention and crisis services around the world provides evidence of a trend toward a broadening range of services, a more active case-finding approach, greater visibility, increased integration into the community care system, and creative leadership by newer and smaller centers as well as the well-established ones. (Author)

Reviews objectives and initial results of (1) an outreach education program for pregnant teenagers, and (2) a program for other teenagers aimed at responsible decision making and prevention of unwanted sexual activity. (Author/DB)

Provides a sense of scope and direction of rural public library extension services through the presentation of a library survey dealing with bookmobile programs, books-by-mail services, and the provision of services in general. (FM)

Looks at the world-wide problem of disabled children and at the activities of UNICEF in this area. Part of a theme issue on disabilities. (SJL)

Gives a short history of the Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA), a broad-based program of Federal aid to public libraries. Several outstanding programs exemplifying the types of library programs funded with LSCA money are also discussed. (LLS)

The Smithsonian Institution's educational mandate has served as the basis for the Institution's growth and development from its inception. This continuing process has led to the development of a center of learning with educational concerns and accomplishments that are broader than those usually connoted by the term "museum." (JN)

Advocates development of libraries through statewide approach, using as an example the West Virginia library system where a conference on libraries was sponsored to increase citizen awareness and involvement. Workshops, outreach programs, open access, and library sharing are tools mentioned to make the library more useful to the individual. (SW)

Describes a project designed to improve the attitude of students toward their junior high school and its teachers. Through group sessions, training of staff, and a variety of outreach programs, school personnel opened channels of communication with parents and students. Both student attitude and performance improved. (Author/JEG)

Examines the liaisons and relationships among libraries and the elderly, and those libraries and other community agencies working for the benefit of the elderly. (FM)

Traces the path of library revolution in Information and Referral (I&R) Services from 1969 to the present. (Author/MBR)

Guidance, counseling, and advice about adult education opportunities are provided in doctors' offices in Gloucester, England. Adults have expressed interest in basic literacy and numeracy programs as well as the opportunity for therapeutic talk. (SK)