The Project is committed to the philosophy that career education should be a total educational endeavor for the community. It is an instructional, counseling, guidance, and placement program which begins at the preschool level and extends through community college and adult education. (AG)

A real community program needs not only programs but a new perspective on the total program of the library aimed at joining the theoretical to the practical, with a shift in accent to the needs of the patron as an individual. (Author/PF)

The second of three documents of a project designed to help North Carolina counties plan community based status offender programs presents a general planning model. An overview traces five steps of the planning decision process, from determining the importance of status offender needs to the county to making program funding decisions based on…

TO COMBAT POVERTY IN THE OZARKS, A TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM IS RECOMMENDED. IT INVOLVES A COMMUNITY EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SECTION SETTING UP A CURRICULUM INVOLVING PROBLEMS OF EDUCATION, HEALTH, COMMUNITY, WELFARE, RECREATION, AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES. KEY LEADERS SHOULD CONFER OFTEN ABOUT PROBLEMS IN THEIR COUNTIES. A REVITALIZED…

In 1972, OE sought a means whereby communities might be helped to mobilize their own financial and human resources to respond effectively to their own drug problems and perhaps provide mutual help to one another. The search for a feasible strategy led to the establishment of the Help Communities Help Themselves (HCHT) Program. The principal…

The principal purpose of this evaluation was to determine the effectiveness of the HCHT Training Program, where effectiveness was to be measured in terms of activity levels produced by the training process. The major dependent variables were defined. (Author)

This organizational analysis of Windsor minor hockey was conducted as a pilot study into the policy decision making process in a sports organization. The study was divided into three phases. In the first phase the organization was audited and provided with information about various feedback channels. In phase two observations, available…

Delta College's wide range of Bicentennial activities and projects are summarized from the spring of 1975 through programs planned for the spring of 1976. (NHM)

Describes the inception and development of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Mime Troupe. Points out that the unique position of New Orleans as a nontheatre city supporting a professional training program within the high schools is related to both indigenous theatre roots within the community and the need for more personal performance…

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)