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Download full textNew Jersey Community Action Training Inst., Trenton. – 1967
One of a series that can be used by New Jersey community action workers, this training manual for antipoverty work is a collection of low-cost, no-cost programs focusing on consumer education and assistance, fund raising, employment and education (including creative writing and teacher aide training), youth services, and recreation. Examples of…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Employment Programs, Financial Support, Guides
Birnbaum, Martin M.; And Others – 1967
Education and Neighborhood Action for Better Living Environment (ENABLE) was planned as a process in which guided group discussions for parents could provide opportunities, within a social context, for identifying and exploring family and community concerns; plans for neighborhood and community action could encompass insights gained, directions…
Descriptors: Advisory Committees, Bibliographies, Community Action, Community Surveys
Davies, Mary; And Others – 1966
Federal programs which provide or assist in providing job-oriented education and training to prepare people for employment are described. Government inservice staff training programs, training provided in the Armed Forces, general aid to education, and programs to aid in the construction of facilities or acquisition of materials are excluded.…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs
Greenberg, Polly – 1969
This book provides an insider's account of the attempts of the Child Development Group of Mississippi (CDGM) to introduce self-help educational innovations into the Black community of Mississippi. It documents the efforts of one of the first OEO-financed Head Start projects designed to help the Black people of Mississippi overcome economic,…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Day Care, Disadvantaged, Early Childhood Education
Fleming, Virginia; And Others – 1975
This factbook presents 87 pages of pictures, graphs, diagrams, quotations, statistics, and text aimed at portraying the current status of children in America. The major areas examined include: (1) children in poverty; (2) child health; (3) family changes and day care; and (4) special child care needs for handicapped, abused, or neglected children.…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Care, Child Development, Children
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Education and Labor. – 1974
This is a comprehensive record of a hearing held before the General Subcommittee on Education on April 22, 1974. Its purpose was to hear testimony on H.R. 13168, a proposed amendment to the National School Lunch Act that would authorize continued purchase of commodities at market price for distribution to schools, domestic relief agencies, and…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Breakfast Programs, Educational Economics, Elementary Secondary Education
Wohlford, Paul – 1970
When the psychologist serves Head Start, he must be a consultant to the whole Head Start organization, from top to bottom, director to children, and horizontally from potentially supportive agencies in the community to the Head Start staff, to the children and their parents. In the process of serving as a community psychologist, he will be called…
Descriptors: Community Health Services, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Youth, Intervention
Michigan State Univ., East Lansing. Rural Manpower Center. – 1970
The study focuses on the problems of rural poverty as opposed to urban. In a discussion of the extent and location of rural poverty in Michigan, it is noted that rural poverty touches the lives of 350,000 individuals in the state. Data on welfare costs and related factors are also examined and brought up to date. Additionally, specific problems of…
Descriptors: Community Problems, Poverty Programs, Rural Areas, Rural Population
Cohen, Bonnie R.; Yonkers, Ann H. – 1969
The major anti-poverty educational programs are evaluated in this report by comparing those operated by the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) with those in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare (DHEW) affecting a similar target population. A comparison of OEO Head Start with DHEW Title I preschool programs indicated that: (1) Title I…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Disadvantaged, Educational Programs, Educationally Disadvantaged
Harkins, Arthur M.; Woods, Richard G. – 1969
Indian leaders in Minneapolis are frequently those Indians who are in favor with the non-Indian population; who are employed in the poverty program area; and who have assumed leadership roles for the benefit of non-Indians, self, and select cronies. As Indian spokesman, they have opposed public assistance in the form of educational programs and…
Descriptors: Activism, Adjustment (to Environment), American Indians, Behavior Patterns
Jones, Bert; And Others – 1969
This joint investigation involving the Omaha Job Corps Center for Women and the Marquette Job Corps Center for Women assessed the remedial reading programs of the two centers. A major objective was to provide Job Corps norms for the Gates-MacGinitie Reading Test, Survey E, forms 1M and 2M. Each center designated control and experimental groups.…
Descriptors: Adult Reading Programs, Group Norms, Job Training, Poverty Programs
Clark, Kenneth B.; Hopkins, Jeannette – 1969
Twelve urban community action programs (CAP) were examined in depth to determine how each of them operationally defined community action and to evaluate their performance. The criteria used were: (1) a clear statement of purpose and programs consistent with that purpose; (2) strong independent leadership and a built-in evaluation and…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Involvement, Disadvantaged, Evaluation Criteria
Berry, Paul C.; And Others – 1968
Embracing four separate reports, this document contains a context and summary for studying orientations toward poverty, kinds of poor, and other basic issues of poverty; equality of economic opportunity and other criteria for evaluating poverty programs; general solutions to poverty; characteristics of transfer payment systems, birth control, and…
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Economic Change, Economic Opportunities, Employment
Smith, James G. E.; And Others – 1966
The impact of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) Community Action Programs (CAP) on 6 selected American Indian reservations (Gila River and Papago, Arizona; Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico; Pine Ridge, South Dakota; Turtle Mountain, North Dakota, and White Earth Chippewa, Minnesota) are evaluated. After considering the development of Indian…
Descriptors: American Indian Reservations, American Indians, Community Action, Community Study
Reynolds, William M., Ed. – 1973
The National High School Debate Problem Area for 1973-74 centers on the questions, "What is the role of the federal government in extending public assistance to all Americans living in poverty?" This collection of federal government documents and periodical articles supplements the "ERIC First Analysis" of the topic (CS 500…
Descriptors: Debate, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Programs, Federal Government
