Dodgen Middle School in Marietta, Georgia, has a well developed school-community program, operated in conjunction with eleven other Cobb County middle schools, offering quality courses for minimal fees. (MJB)

Describes both a pilot and a larger research effort to implement and evaluate a comprehensive community-based approach to drug abuse prevention. Outlines criteria for success, involving school, media, parent, and community organization programs. (Author/LHW)

Four intervention models are reviewed for their applicability to initiation of community-based programs for drug abuse prevention in youth. An expanded model is offered and applied to an existing program to suggest methods of organizing communities for sequenced long-term drug prevention programming. (Author/MT)

Focuses on the effect of the Community Long Term Care project on nursing home utilization. Over an 18-month period of participation, experimental group clients experienced significantly fewer admissions and a 38 percent reduction in nursing home use. (Author/BL)

The development of effective community integration training programs for persons with severe handicaps is examined in terms of the human needs of severely disabled persons, the importance of comprehension and community-oriented training, emphasis on generalization, and consideration of individual preferences and interests. (CL)

The author discusses the role of normalization in directing community-based services for retarded children; points out some problems with the use of normalization as a guiding principle; and suggests some alternate principles based on individual clients and enduring goals, such as positive self-feelings. (Author/IM)

A cooperative shows how to multiply library resources by sharing them. (PS)

Instead of beginning with a general content area, the college staff worked to initiate its program planning by identifying a social problem and locating the various groups who had a stake in solving the problem. (Author)

Involvement of primary grade children in a community art auction taught them that it takes patience and imagination and a sustained effort to turn out an acceptable offering. (RB)

Includes 9 articles: Cultural Changes and Leisure Time; Leisure and the American Worker; Communication/Interpretation; New Concepts of Leisure Today; The Innocence of Leisure; Charter for Leisure; Retirement as Leisure; The Year Round School and Recreation; The Community School and Recreation. (NQ)