To bring intensive information input to Alaskans within poverty groups, an interagency activity is proposed that would employ 12 VISTA volunteers as community information aides with the Fairbanks North Star Borough Library serving as the center for the assembly and generation of information and the dissemination of information through multimedia…

Experience with the 1970 Chenango Development Project (CDP), a rural anti-poverty project initiated by the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell, led to concern with development and testing of purposive social change models, the role of action oriented social scientists, and the involvement of social science departments, colleges, and…

An exploratory study was made of county workshops designed to plan programs for the poor to see if there would be an increase in verbal participation and later program participation, and if expressed needs would be different when representatives of the poor spoke of their needs before agency personnel discussed programs. The workshops were part of…

Upward Bound at Wayne State University consists of a pre-college program at Mercy College, The University of Detroit, and Wayne State, followed by continuing involvement with the students during their first year in college. Funding, staff, philosophy of the staff, and philosophy of the program are discussed. In choosing staff members, quality…

Offered by the City University of New York, SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation, and Knowledge) is an educational opportunity program concerned with high school graduates from poverty-area neighborhoods who would not have been admitted to college on the basis of their grades, but who have potential for college in terms of basic ability. A…

This report reviews the status of poverty and makes the following recommendations for program aims and structure, and for organizational changes at the Federal level. Antipoverty programs should attack the total environment of the poor: housing, education, family stability, employment, and neighborhoods. Increased efforts must be made to reach the…

See TE 499 864, above.

This report describes the first Public Policy Seminar, sponsored by the Black Child Development Institute in the summer of 1972. The seminar was designed to provide the opportunity for information-sharing, awareness of federal policy making, and a channel for minorities involved in child development at the community level to exert pressure and…

Contents of this study include the following essays: (1) "Economic Considerations of Poverty," Harry Lacombe; (2) "Physical Growth and Development: Some Socioeconomic Factors During Prenatal and Postnatal Life," Geoffrey C. Robinson, (3) "Language, Cognition and Poverty," Alan R. Moffit; (4) "Personality…

The book provides a dichotomy of the general technique of problem handling in the United States; i.e., getting even or punishing the adversary, and the reverse of this, problem solving; and discusses the two aspects in the context of the war on poverty. The second and third chapters discuss various definitions of the Poor, and provide objectives…

An overview is given of conditions linked to the causes and perpetuation of poverty. These factors include large family size, unemployment, lack of education, and social and personal disorganization. Family planning services are important but by themselves tend to be ineffective and programs should be launched which would improve the total life…

Contents of Part One include, in addition to the testimony of the witnesses called, such materials as: examples of citizen complaints, about the operation of school lunch programs; a report on the nutritional status of preschool Mexican-American farm children; a report on the Demonstration Migrant Nutrition Education Project, Edinburg, Texas; a…

This resource guide contains complete descriptions of films about poverty and development both in the United States and in poor nations. The films are selected for use in classrooms, workshops, and community seminars and annotations summarize film content. Topics related to development in the United States include perspectives, poverty, realities…

This bibliography focuses upon the programs which have been proposed as a solution to poverty under the so-called war on poverty. The first section of the bibliography suggests some of the materials which could prove useful as theoretical or methodological guides to an analysis of the "powerlessness" of the poor and the operation of the…

This project originally began as a direct result of counselor activities and difficulties in the Model Cities areas. The Providence and Pawtucket Model Cities areas proved to be a source of frustration for the counselors involved due to the multiplicity of problems found there and the inadequacy of the usual Division of Vocational Rehabilitation…