This manual is intended to help citizen groups set up their own on-the-job training activities, tailored to their own individual needs, issues, learning styles, and experiences. Specifically, it discusses the development of strategies and skills for fund raising for citizen groups. Chapters are written chronologically, from the first step in the…

The paper presents an outline of an international research and demonstration project designed to evolve a paradigm for community services for severely retarded adolescents and adults in the State of West Bengal, India. It is explained that the program's special feature is to provide a community setting in all spheres of activities, so that the…

Described is the Comprehensive Emergency Services (CES) program, a system of coordinated services designed to meet emergency needs of neglected, dependent, and abused children and their families. In an introductory section, the program's development, objectives, and system attributes are covered. Explained in section II are the following…

Described in the manual are methods, equipment, and materials that were used to develop a model community recreation program for handicapped children in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Discussed are program principles, recommendations, and evaluation techniques; administrative considerations such as budgeting, transportation, and publicity; staff…

This document is the final report of the Community Leaders' Training in Environmental Studies Project conducted at Florida State University. The project sought to increase community environmental awareness and to expand the educational uses of the Tallahassee Junior Museum through the cooperation of museum staff, a variety of community groups, and…

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…