A regional consultative model for visually impaired rural students requires collaboration among the state education agency, residential school for the blind, and local school districts. To be successful, consultants should focus on organization, positive relationships with school personnel, (including providing inservice training and access to…

Analyzes the relative merits of nonprofit nursing homes. Reviews research on ownership status, and points out problems with past research. Suggests future research should study the relationship between nursing home ownership and quality and cost of care. (JAC)

Explores how continuing and/or vocational education programs can be offered to residents of sparsely populated areas when a number of schools and communities combine their resources and utilize shared facilities and programs. Various delivery systems are compared. (WL)

Reports on the 1976 Pittsburgh Conference on Resource Sharing in Libraries. (PF)

Unitization--placement of institutionalized mentally retarded persons from a common geographical area into a series of living arrangements in the same residential area--is discussed in terms of its implications and meaning for the social worker and the resident. (Author/IM)

Described are the activities of the Handicapped Children's Early Education Program, designed to facilitate the provision of quality services to preschool-age handicapped children and their families. (SBH)

Every year more than one million youth under the age of 18 in the United States come in contact with some aspect of the juvenile justice system. Of these children, it is estimated that up to 80 percent have diagnosable mental health disorders, and many also have co-occurring substance use disorders, making their diagnosis and treatment needs even…

The Division of State and Community Assistance of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), in conjunction with the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), held four, two-day State team-building workshops. These workshops were designed to help build the State infrastructure necessary to bring about coordinated delivery of…

Increasingly, people receiving public-supported health care are seeking help for and/or presenting with both substance abuse and mental disorders. People with these co-occurring disorders often require help from many different care systems. Consequently, no single system of care is adequately prepared to help people with both mental and substance…

This extensively revised second edition provides a practical framework for offering immediate problem-solving assistance by telephone to persons in crisis. The text offers specific techniques to deal with out-of-control situations with the highly important initial steps to protect the caller, the crisis worker, and the community. The scope of the…

Symposium participants gathered to discuss how to move online learning beyond being "as good as" traditional education. Participants were asked to analyze their assumptions about distributed learning, identify the strengths of each type of distributed learning discussed, and explore what needs to be done to improve online education. This paper…

This document presents Nebraska's state plan for its vocational rehabilitation services program for fiscal years 1998-2000 as required under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended. An introductory letter from the U.S. Department of Education notes that the plan and amendments meet federal requirements. Individual sections of the plan address…

Over the years, the nursing educational system has prepared nurses for the many settings in which health care is delivered. As health care shifts from a fragmented system of disparate providers and payers to integrated management systems, nurses and other health care professionals are experiencing tremendous changes. The nursing education system…

In a relatively brief period of time, many clinicians and agencies have sought to use the World Wide Web as a means to access clients, impart information, advertise, or educate. Increasingly, counselors and other mental health professionals are seeking to provide or to supplement client services over the Internet. Unfortunately, amidst all the…

This article provides an overview of various aspects of vocational education: federal legislation and funding, administrative structure, finance, planning approach, programmatic delivery system, and coordination provisions. (CT)