This report presents the results of an evaluation of New York State's Mental Health Information Services (MHISs). The goals of the evaluation were to determine the effectiveness with which legislatively mandated information services to the mentally disabled and to the courts were carried out, and to evaluate MHIS workload and activity in order to…

Begun in 1965, the Redlands Christian Migrant Association (RCMA) has focused on the needs of migrant farmworkers and their children. RCMA considers the fields of education, health, and housing as the areas of greatest impact upon migrant children. In its major role as a catalyst, RCMA has worked with various individuals with common objectives of…

Designed to develop and to share information and resources on child abuse and neglect, child welfare, and youth services in Region VIII (Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Montana), the Family Resource Center, a federally funded two year program, has developed a directory containing names, addresses, phone numbers and…

Describes how American social policy (based on individualism and free enterprise), family size, and parental earnings can work to decrease children's benefits under social security. (Author/ED)

Timing and circumstances are critical factors in deciding when and whether to tell an abused foster child why he was taken from his own parents. This case study presents realistically the problems facing the professionals involved. (SDH)

Discusses the formation of the Interdepartmental Council to Coordinate All Federal Juvenile Delinquency Programs, outlines National Policy Objectives, and reviews efforts at research and evaluation. (EH)

Recommended to administrators of social welfare agencies serving the blind is use of the United Way of America's Services Identification System as an effective tool for program definition and measurement. (LH)

This article describes a regionally oriented continuing education program for people in the construction industry which has been cooperatively developed by representatives from university programs in technology and by industry leaders concerned with regional needs for housing, industrial building, transportation, pollution abatement, and other…

Article discussed how state planning can help the formerly independent parts of postsecondary education work together to build an effective, pluralistic system. (Editor/RK)

Examines and describes the extent of regionalization in the administration of public education in Canada. Focus is on the features of regional offices of education. (Author/DN))

Presented is the first of a series of annual reports designed to tell the community what has been acomplished and what yet needs to be achieved in providing free appropriate public education to the handicapped children of Maryland. The document is divided into the major sections of Philosophy, Goals, Objectives, State of the State, Children,…

A cooperative approach to mainstreaming between a school for the deaf and a nearby regional Occupational Education Center of the Board of Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) in New York State was investigated in four programs representing local variations of this model for partial mainstreaming. Three distinct periods of the mainstreaming…

This report presents the results of a pilot test by the Texas Water Quality Board (TWQB) of a manpower planning methodology developed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Water Programs. Project outputs are described and illustrated in sections of the report dealing with work to be done, organizational staffing plan,…

The purposes of this report are: to describe the main elements of the U.S. agricultural extension model and its effects on the agricultural revolution; to analyze attempts to extend this model to non-agricultural technology and/or to less developed countries; and to draw general conclusions about the diffusion of technological innovations, with…