The document serves as a directory of federal projects in the Handicapped Children's Early Education Program (HCEEP). An introduction describes the HCEEP network and briefly summarizes results of a recent evaluation study. The overview section then describes the five types of HCEEP projects: deomonstration projects, outreach projects, state…

This report examines the relationship between outreach projects and the new State Grants Program involved in the Handicapped Children's Early Education Program (HCEEP). Following a brief review of HCEEP'S mission and history, the State Grants Program and its three types of grants are described: planning, development, and implementation grants.…

This article describes a life-skills program, in a community college, with its major objective to assist disadvantaged adults in obtaining employment opportunities. There is a need for faculty to respond to the culturally different and for new teaching consistent with learning styles of the alienated. Specific program guide-lines are presented.…

Describes an outreach program of the counseling center at the University of Wisconsin - Green Bay. Tables where assistance was offered were placed in school corridors in buildings with heavy student traffic and paraprofessionals were trained to help provide more manpower. Results are very favorable. (HMV)

Describes some out-of-the-ordinary West Coast library and related services, both private and public, primarily in the Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle areas. (LS)

Libraries must provide more than the usual reference services by taping community information sources such as social agencies, religious organizations, local clubs and societies, local businesses, and residents who have special knowledge. The library must also take an active, rather than passive, role in delivering information. (LS)

This booklet includes a brief history of the Northern Illinois Bookmobile Group, as well as national and regional notes on bookmobile activities, programs, publicity, summer reading clubs, and bookmobile maintenance. Findings of a 1978 bookmobile survey conducted by the Des Plaines Public Library are summarized, providing data on 31 bookmobile…

The project described was undertaken at a private residential juvenile treatment center for boys 10 to 18 years old to present programs that would motivate reading and stimulate interest in human interrelationships. Staff sensitivity sessions, selection of current interest paperback books and magazines, and construction of storage units within…

The document, over three-fourths of which consists of appendixes, presents the 1978-79 final performance report for Project Outreach, the informational extension of the Infant Program for Visually Imapired (IPVI). Materials and media produced by Project Outreach are based on direct experience with visually impaired preschool children through the…

The document contains the final report of the Central Institute for the Deaf Parent-Infant Early Education Program in three major areas--continuation/outreach, replication, and evaluation. A description of activities and statistics are outlined for procedures carried out under each of the three areas. Noted among products are the following: a…

At the request of the National Office for Black Catholics, the University of Dayton recently conducted two surveys of Catholic dioceses and diocesan school systems which have significant numbers of black Catholics and black non-Catholics. The diocesan survey attempted to assess the involvement of the dioceses with blacks, the participation of…

Having witnessed the success of public broadcasting series such as "Sesame Street," public health officials began to work toward the creation of a new series concerning health and aimed at a prime time, adult audience. A feasibility study showed that there was a potential audience, and discussion then focused on the topics and format…

Persons with normal hearing, especially in the public services, should make concerted efforts to become adept in forms of total communication so that more avenues to the everyday world are opened to deaf people. Awareness of the deaf world among the hearing and being involved with it are possibly just as important as those services established…

A brightly colored van with an enthusiastic, interracial staff carries the Yonkers Public Library program to its populous inner-city neighborhood. The Minimobile carries a paperback book collection and audiovisual equipment. Its multilingual staff presents programs designed to attract new library users. The van stops at daycare centers, schools,…

The development of public library film services to the elderly is traced from its beginning at the Cleveland Public Library in 1941, through legislation that strengthened it, to current services, e.g., outreach programs. Guidelines for the improvement of service are included. (MBR)