This guidebook assesses the feasibility and potential impact a specialized lending program might have on the capital needs of community-based child and family services. It explains the need for quality facilities and how physical space can affect child care quality and the program's impact. Also described are the problems associated with capital…

This study explored the experiences of volunteers and the development of relationships within the two largest contingents of one-on-one mentoring programs: community-based programs and school-based programs. The emphases of school-based programs were studied, along with the quality of developed relationships between youth and mentors and the…

Kansas City, Missouri, is one of six sites in a national demonstration project, Community Change for Youth Development (CCYD), which aims to increase basic developmental supports and opportunities available to youth age 12-20 years. The demonstration focuses on five basic elements: adult support and guidance, opportunities for involvement in…

Describes a joint project between college, high school, grade school, and playground to achieve the following: a) recreation programs at each location to provide expanded opportunities in recreation for all segments of the population; b) mobilization of city resources for the program and establishment of a coordinating council. (JA)

Project FIND (First Identification of Neonatal Disabilities) has been developed to assist the family and physician of the mentally handicapped child from the day of birth. (DB)

Author, Professor of Art at Glassboro State College, suggests practical ways for students to help eliminate unsightly areas of the community. (CB)

Describes the team teaching efforts of four Xaverian Brothers who have undertaken to coordinate the religious educational needs of a group of catholic parishes in Queens, New York. (AN)

Briefly outlines scope of a total drug education program, and includes the duties of the district coordinator of such a program. (CJ)

A description of the Emanuel Hospital-Oregon Society for Crippled Children and Adults Continuity Care Program. (RD)

San Diego's community involvement programs are described. (DB)

At the Star Commonwealth School (Ohio) for troubled students, students and staff engage in a variety of community volunteer activities, typically with senior citizens, smaller children, and the handicapped. (SW)

A student-run, statewide art organization in Louisiana emphasizes the participation of youth in the visual arts and the sharing of their work with the public. The organization is an affiliation of junior and senior high school art club members who profess an interest in the visual arts. (RM)

Discusses how the Youth Employment and Demonstrations Project Act (YEDPA) communicates with local school systems. The dropout issue has been one point of conflict. CETA agencies tend to blame the school systems, and school administrators argue that CETA is a way by which people who have left the system can return. (CT)