This compilation includes practical and transferable principles that can be used by service-learning practitioners. The 39 case studies and personal essays in the compilation are organized around critical issues in strengthening long-term institutional and community support for K-12 service-learning programs. Each article describes how the issue…

The juvenile justice system is exploring alternatives to the use of secure facilities as a means of juvenile crime control. Some of these alternatives are known as diversion programs. This bulletin offers an overview of the diversion programs and evaluation findings from the Detention Diversion Advocacy Project (DDAP), a disposition case advocacy…

Author suggests ways of involving parents in a real partnership with the school. Parental involvement is a sure-fire route to good PR, he says. (Editor)

Describes the role of one school district's school-community advisory councils. (Author/DN)

During the first three months of 1973 weekly forums and other meetings were held, with considerable success, in Johnston County, North Carolina, to provide the residents an opportunity to become aware of and to discuss all aspects of the topic The Impact of Urbanization on Johnston County.' (SA)

In efforts to place more effective social workers in the barrios and ghettoes, this program recruited potential college students from those areas, and provided them with support in academic skill development on-site classes; field placement; and supportive services. The most serious kinds of problem faced by these young people lie in the area of…

As the birthrate plunges, a resourceful building team finds school construction activity shifting to conversions, renovations, and the design of new schools called human resource centers. Describes programs in Thomas Jefferson Junior High School in Arlington, Virginia; the Whitman Center in Pontiac, Michigan; and the John F. Kennedy School and…

Camp Tyler, a comprehensive educational facility, serves the public schools during the school year and other organizations dedicated to children during the summer months. During their stay at the facility, students have an opportunity to become involved with and better understand their environment and their peers. (Author/JN)

Covers the selection process and hiring of the community education coordinator; describes the requisite personality, qualifications, role, and training of the coordinator; and outlines the organization and structure of the community education program. (Author/EA)

Seven colleges are finding innovative ways of attracting people to the campus and bringing the campus to the people. (Ed.)

A collection of services designed to help colleges help the community. (Editor)

Describes Maryland program in which senior psychiatric residents work one day a week for a year as consultants to health departments, in effort to prepare them more adequately for work in the community. (CJ)

Describes the federally funded program conducted by Afram Associates, Inc. which provides service to nine Parent Implemented Programs located in nine cities in six states. (MB)