As a viable supplement to traditional campus based personnel preparation programs, university outreach training programs can help meet personnel needs for orientation and mobility specialists serving visually impaired children in rural areas. (DB)

Research and numerous model programs suggest that sports play an important social role. Particularly among youth, sports and professional athlete role models help deter juvenile delinquency. Several athlete organizations have been established to aid youth. (SI)

Describes the Youth Opportunity Project, which was designed to allow youth to experience the world of work and hands-on learning in the framework of preventing substance abuse and school dropout. Six youths aged 12-14 worked on a small diversified farm. (RJC)

Adult and continuing education's record in serving culturally diverse populations can be improved through a multifaceted approach involving improved data collection, dissemination of effective models, enhancement of graduate and professional training, an expanded research agenda, and participation in policy development. (SK)

Describes an "integrative outreach" program designed to meet the developmental needs of adolescents in the Maine state child welfare system. Claims the program activities mirror and promote the adolescent transition from acting-out behavior to emotional verbalization and therefore may provide an intermediate step between traditional…

The paper describes the rationale and implementation of incorporating computers into the service delivery system of a program which employs parents of developmentally delayed children to help other parents of similar children by visiting them in their homes. (Author/DB)

Five articles present an overview of trends and issues affecting rural libraries. The areas discussed include the status of rural library services; outreach programs; the role of library cooperation in the support of rural library service; the development of rural information centers; and political marketing of the rural library. (CLB)

This article describes individual steps of a marketing plan, as well as field practices from more than 20 early intervention programs using the marketing approach to help achieve public awareness of early intervention programs as required under Part H of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. (DB)

Informal outdoor education refers to the use of voluntary outdoor activities and experiences to promote personal growth and mutual aid among the clients of youth programs and other human services agencies. Discusses the unique benefits of outdoor education, client recruitment through outreach, links with home, and the aim of increasing client…

Summarizes a third-year evaluation of the Houston Independent School District's Beating the Odds (BTO) program, initiated in the 1988-89 school year. Designed for at-risk secondary students, BTO provides in-school counseling and guidance, community outreach and family case management, and specialized teacher training. The program helped curb the…

San Francisco's Exploratorium contains over 650 interactive exhibits that invite visitors (including 67,000 students on field trips yearly) to explore natural phenomena through individual hands-on inquiry and discovery. The museum's hidden agenda is helping schools incorporate inquiry and discovery into classrooms. Internet connections to Science…

Survey of adult Canadian library users focused on defining "seniors," and determining their awareness of library programing and needs for further programing aimed specifically at older adults. Results indicated that, in an era of fiscal restraint, librarians need to be wary of improving services to seniors at the expense of other…

Twenty-seven rural physicians were visited by a medical librarian and taught to search medical literature via computer. A survey of 21 participants showed that the program reduced the sense of isolation and increased satisfaction. Online searching cost an average of $10 per month to answer 20 clinical questions. (SK)

Fuller, Blume, and Johnston describe uses of the My Vocational Situation instrument with 181 freshmen in summer orientation at the University of Missouri. Rakes explains ways the university's career center takes career information out to the campus through presentations and materials distribution. (SK)

This article describes the development and implementation of an innovative program of information centers in Israel that is designed to identify newly blind persons and to give them first-hand information about available services, as well as to stimulate an awareness of rehabilitation services among medical personnel. (Author/DB)