Background description, project summary of the first year, results of a survey of project participants, and second year summary are included in this final report of the Human Resources Information Network (HRIN) project of the Bridgeport Public Library. Objectives, activities, budget, and planning are reported for this project, which was designed…

The program of consumer education for Comprehensive Health Planning was developed to assist consumers to assume leadership roles in community decision-making with regard to health services. This paper presents a description of a project that was developed to train leaders for the program. The project consisted of special, advanced training…

After identifying the mosquito as the Venezuelan equine encephalitis vector, health officials worked with the community to eliminate mosquito breeding sites. By educating the public first, cooperation was received in opening drainage areas and stocking water collection areas with mosquito eating fish to interrupt the host-vector-recipient cycle.…

Paper delivered to the Council of Teaching Hospitals at the 79th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges (Houston, Texas, November 1, 1968).

Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association (Chicago, Illinois, 1968).

Speech delivered in part to Plenary Session on "The Specific Problems at the annual meeting of the Association of American Medical Colleges (79th, Houston, Texas Nov 2, 1968

Local records held by units with the County and City of Albany, New York, are identified and listed, as well as information about the availability of documents to the public, departmental fees, and the presence of photocopying equipment. The records consist of a wide variety of documents which contain information pertinent to the particular…

One of a series of periodical reports from the Center, the document summarizes the research and development program of the Center's third year. The research program is directed at creating and testing the essential components of comprehensive community health care delivery systems that will increase the supply of services where they are most…

A velcro board presentation of an input-output model, illustrating the public library as a community information system, can be used to define the library to citizen taxpayers. The major input to the system is tax dollars and its basic components are librarians, recorded information, facilities, and equipment. The output depends on the library's…

This study highlights the differences between community psychology and community mental health and concludes that community psychology should disengage itself from the community mental health movement if it is to fulfill its most important functions of interfacing with the social systems of deviance control and of socialization and support.…

Indigenous homemakers were employed in this Arkansas program as health education aides. They provided participant families with information on: (1) healthy daily living habits; (2) preventive health practices; (3) self-care/professional care needs; (4) home environment influences in health; and (5) local health services. (MJB)

Illustrating modern community mental health philosophy, this article asserts that the term "client" is preferable to that of "patient" because it implies some measure of personal responsibility, does not carry the connotation of "mental patient", and is a respectable reference to those who patronize community mental health services. (JC)

Discusses the four-year-old Health Education Project (HEP) established at the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark. Notes the use of bilingual, community-oriented videotapes as teaching tools to inform consumers about critical health care information and explores the use of these tapes with health education discussion groups.…

The One Stop Immigration Center, an agency funded by the Federal government, assists in the reunification of families through the adjustment of their legal status. One Stop also acts as a referral center for those with landlord-tenant problems or with other problems of a legal nature. (NQ)

Examined the impact of client need scores in the allocation of resources for community mental health services in Massachusetts. Indicated no significant difference in allocation between groups relative to client need, with resources being distributed evenly across geographic areas. (Author/ABB)