Demonstrates the effectiveness of interactive cable television in the delivery of social services to senior citizens. Increased awareness of community problems, expanded knowledge about social services, and greater involvement in social processes are noted in a survey of the viewers of the New York University--Reading (Pennsylvania) Consortium…

The suggestion is made that social workers in rural areas who find themselves dealing with extremely difficult problems should look to a very basic local institution, Agricultural Extension, for increased help. (Author)

Ways are suggested in which schools, teachers, and communities can constructively deal with the problems of runaway youth. (MJB)

A broadened scope of career possibilities for teacher education graduates in settings other than the classroom is discussed, and a curriculum designed to prepare them for work in industrial corporations, museums, hospitals, health and social service organizations, and prisons is described. (JD)

Home and social services, financial aids, information and referral, counseling, and special housing information for older adults are offered by the Senior Services Center in Palo Alto, California, including a guide to housing and alternative living and a rental housing directory. (MF)

This position paper of the Canadian Council on Social Development, a private research group to improve social policy, reviews the usual Canadian retirement age and income. The paper recommends major revisions to Canada's pension system to allow for more flexible retirement policies and for more adequate retirement income. (MF)

This study documents the fact that the Asian American elderly in Greater Philadelphia are unaware of or do not use existing social services, financial assistance, or senior citizens centers. (Author/AM)

Argues that the routinized procedures governing delivery of local public services influence distribution of services to citizens by three municipal agencies in Detroit. Agencies are the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Sanitation Division, and the Environmental Enforcement Division of the Environmental Protection and Maintenance Department.…

Distortion of data is caused by purposeful, goal-oriented activity of people who produce data, as well as by attempts to cheat or manipulate social service delivery systems. Failure to recognize a constructive motivational component is attributed to an over-reliance on positivism in the social sciences. (Author/CTM)

The provisions of the Social Security Act of 1935 are reviewed and suggestions are made for improvement in the system. The author stresses that the income maintenance standards must be revised so that the Social Security system will continue to exist. (HLM)

Delineates the problems and procedures involved in establishing and operating a board for periodic review of cases of children in foster care which enlisted the cooperation of court, agency professionals and the community. (BR)

Summarizing the Task Force Issues Paper presented at the Appalachian Conference on Balanced Growth and Economic Development (1977), this article presents Task Force recommendations re: development of regional priorities for Federal funding of human service programs; decentralized government and citizen participation; small community growth…

Reports the findings of a 10-year study that examined the continuing conflicts between poor Blacks and Southeast Asian refugees in the United States. Focuses on two areas, economics and race, and argues that government policy has done much to inflame the conflict. Argues that the current refugee policies are diluting already inadequate social…

In response to comments on his nationwide study of public mental retardation/developmental disabilities spending in the states, the author considers classification of funds (income maintenance, large private facilities and prisons, nursing homes, and education/vocational rehabilitation), values, determinants, civil rights, and reform. (DB)

Presents an overview of an evaluation of the effectiveness and impact of family-centered home-based services as implemented within the Child Welfare Division of Hennepin County, Minnesota Community Services Department, which worked with families of an adolescent who had been approved for out-of-home placement. (BB)