The objectives of this book are to report on current activities in the arts, and to recommend further projects to create a greater public awareness of the arts. The reports are not intended for simple legislative digestion, nor necessarily for executive implementation, but rather are intended to prompt, encourage, and initiate fuller aesthetic…

The basic assumption of this paper is that unused and underused public school buildings are appropriate facilities to become opportunity centers for neighborhood citizens of all ages. A detailed case study of a community education program in Grand Rapids, Michigan, illustrates this assumption, and a brief historical summary of changing population…

After five years of experience the Colorado State Hospital's Community Services Team has developed a dynamic treatment model utilizing college students as child care workers, and using community schools and resources in order to maintain an optimistic viewpoint for the patient and to avoid institutionalization. Treatment is offered to the…

An introduction to the need for day camp activities and recreational facilities for the retarded precedes a discussion of the problems involved: the recreational needs must be defined along with the nature of the programs; locations must be found; the costs of transportation and salaries must be assumed and budgeted; programs must be flexible and…

This report consists of papers presented during the 6th annual conference of the Southwest Council for Bilingual Education. Seven papers are included in the report: (1) Community Involvement in Bilingual Programs of Las Cruces Public Schools; (2) Bilingual Education--A Commitment to Community Development; (3) The Commitment of a State Department…

A speech to a community forum reviews the organization, functions, and programs of Community Progress, Inc. (CPI) in New Haven, Connecticut. CPI is concerned with raising the resources for a massive attack on poverty, with coordinating that effort, and with working cooperatively with like-minded community institutions. The major thrust of the…

As the world changes, so do the helping professions in community and youth work, and so does the nature of their training. This paper is written on the assumption that the function of the helping professions is either to remedy incoherence or to help people live with it. Those who work with people are therefore remedying, or helping people live…

Reported are 1973 conference proceedings of the National Association of Coordinators of State Programs for the Mentally Retarded (MR), which address the economics of service delivery to mentally handicapped children and adults. Conference speakers included a state legislator, a state budget official, an economist, and state and local officials.…

This is a collection of articles on the Rutland Center Model for Treating Emotionally Disturbed Children. The 2-year demonstration program, which became the prototype for a statewide network, was a cooperative effort to establish a system that could offer significant service to any seriously emotionally or behaviorally disturbed child, anywhere in…

This manual, aimed at all levels of educational development, presents procedures and suggestions for designing and conducting workshop in community-school relations. Part A discusses situations in which workshops can be beneficial, the objectives for a community-school workshop and the cost. Part B offers explicit directions for conducting the…

A course in post-Civil War U. S. history was offered through a local newspaper during the fall semester of 1973. One instructional unit was presented each week for 13 weeks in the newspaper, and the final exam was offered on campus. Weekly units included behavioral objectives, historical interpretation, self-tests, and bibliographies. The mid-term…

This two-part report summarizes the comprehensive Report on the Development of the National Drug Education Program (NDEP) Information Support System. The first report describes the implementation and growth of the system, discusses the design approach, and provides sample information collection instruments. Part II is, itself, in two sections: (1)…

This study inventories the urban activities of institutions of higher education in the Winston-Salem area and reports a significant series of social and economic indicators for nine urbanized areas in North Carolina. Part I consists of a series of excerpts from a collection of nine documents and reports concerned with development policy, planning…

This document describes the Rocky Mount, N.C. Youth Services Center which was established as a community-based treatment program for male juvenile offenders. Designed to work with behavior problems at their source (school, home, community), the Center utilizes community-based contingency contracting with written behavioral agreements entered into…

An intervention project concerned with the education of very young, disadvantaged children in an attempt to prevent intellectual deficits in "high-risk" children is presented. The intervention technique employs an intensive educational program for the very young high-risk child, beginning before six months of age. Using survey data, a maternal IQ…