This document is part of a series of monographs on community-based services for children and adolescents who are severely emotionally disturbed. The series is the product of a national study of community-based service approaches which identified over 200 programs serving emotionally disturbed children and included visits to several programs…

Respite care provides relief or backup emergency care for families of individuals who are developmentally disabled. In sparsely populated rural areas, center-based urban models for service delivery and provider recruitment and training may be inappropriate. Las Cumbres Learning Services has developed a model for provision of respite care services…

This year-long economics project helped first graders from a low-income area recognize and see themselves as participants in an economic world. Students studied their community to learn about the different types of work people do, goods and services, problems of scarcity, the necessity for rules and goals, the use of natural resources, the…

The purpose of this article is to share with the reader what happens when a job service office and a county social service department join forces. Although disillusioned with prevailing attitudes regarding welfare recipients, the two WIN counselors present to the reader possible avenues for change. (Author)

Calls for an end to aridity in the general education curricula of 2-year colleges by promoting a much closer link between the study of traditional disciplines and the community which surrounds academe. (JT)

Community colleges and community schools must take steps to work together to further their common interests in life-long learning and the continuing education of the "adult" learner. This will avoid a wasting of resources, duplication of effort and facilities, and needless expenditures. (DC)

Proposes a list of actions proper to community colleges and community schools which, if taken together, will provide total community education. Also includes responses to a survey of approximately 900 two-year colleges conducted to evaluate the current status of cooperation. (DC)

After requesting, receiving, and evaluating information from 10 community colleges, the writer assimilated the ideas for cooperation which are presented here as a model for all community colleges. Cooperative programs at five community colleges are detailed. (DC)

Reviews the literature relating to community education, pointing to the differences and similarities in the roles of two-year colleges and community schools. Particular attention is given to areas of competition and cooperation. (MB)

Housing is a critical component of community care for people with long-term mental illness. Without a place to live, the best mental health treatment and the most sophisticated rehabilitation services cannot be effective. The first phase of the deinstitutionalization movement, releasing large numbers of patients from the state hospitals and…

The conference proceedings presented in this report document successful strategies for meeting the child care needs of school-age children and stimulating new ways of thinking about the provision of school-age child care. The first part of the report gives a historical perspective of Maryland's activity in school-age child care. The second part…

This report recommends that the House of Representatives pass the School Dropout Prevention and Basic Skills Improvement Act of 1990. The bill would amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to improve secondary school programs for basic skills improvement, dropout prevention, and dropout reentry by strengthening reporting…

This document consists of the fourth section of a book of readings on issues related to adult career development. The four chapters in this fourth section focus on settings in which adult career development counseling may take place. "Career Planning and Development in Organizations" (Peter Cairo) discusses several concepts and definitions…

This annotated bibliography of 245 items published from 1970 through 1987 is intended to guide newcomers toward and remind service-learning veterans of key literature in the field. Sections of the bibliography include definitions and history, rationales, service-learning in higher education and in secondary education, theoretical and philosophical…

The California Conservation Corps (CCC), comprised of both residential and non-residential centers, was established in 1977 to conduct useful conservation work and provide youth between the ages of 18 and 23 with valuable work experience. This report uses data from 1983 and 1984 to assess the value of the work done by the CCC. It contains the…