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Kober, Nancy – 1994
This report synthesizes the presentations and discussions from a 1993 symposium on comprehensive school health and safety into a blueprint for urban action. The first part of the report summarizes the nature of health and safety problems in urban schools and discusses some of the barriers that hinder integrated solutions. The second part describes…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Involvement, Comprehensive Programs, Educational Finance
Idaho State Dept. of Education, Boise. Div. of Vocational Education. – 1990
An Idaho task force of Hispanic Americans, industry representatives, and education leaders studied the reasons Hispanic students were not enrolling in and completing vocational education programs. The task force sponsored a series of community meetings to identify reasons and solutions. Approximately 40-60 parents, students, and other interested…
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Community Involvement, Dropout Characteristics, Dropout Prevention
Cassara, Beverly Benner – 1991
A growing trend in social science research is to reject those modes that treat individuals as objects of research and to accept the role of catalyst in helping the people to do their own research. Also, there is an increasing demand that results of social research must serve in a timely way to improve the situation of those involved. Participatory…
Descriptors: Action Research, Adult Education, Adult Educators, Citizen Participation
Rivera, Manuel G. – 1983
A study of Hispanic participation in administration of the 106 California community colleges (administered through district organizations) counted persons with Spanish surnames listed in the "Directory of California Community Colleges 1981-82" as participating in administration at district or college level. Hispanic administrators were…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrator Selection, Administrators, Affirmative Action
Ingram, E. J.; McIntosh, R. G. – 1983
The 3-part companion volume to the final report of the Education North Evaluation Project serves as a policy development resource book for anyone who must address questions of school-community relations. Part I focuses on the educational issues of concern to policy makers and their advisors in very remote, interracial, poor northern communities.…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, Canada Natives, Community Characteristics, Community Involvement
Download full textPreston, James C.; Halton, Katherine B. – 1981
To help increase leader effectiveness in planning and implementing local action projects, the booklet presents discussion and examples of the nature and characteristics of planned community action leading to community development. The booklet first explains why leaders should be involved with community action and then gives abstracts of seven…
Descriptors: Arts Centers, Child Development Centers, Community Action, Community Centers
Keehn, Martha, Ed. – 1982
The manual is addressed to nutrition and health educators interested in trying out new participatory ways of working at the community level and describes simple techniques to train field staff to approach local communities more sensitively and involve them more fully in achieving better health. Techniques and materials are all experiential and…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Change Agents, Change Strategies, Community Health Services
Epskamp, Kees P. – 1982
A 13-day workshop was conducted in Nigeria to train 60 community development workers in the educational use of popular theater for community-based adult education. Key goals were conscientization (a gradual learning process in which people look critically at their social situation to gain deeper understanding of the root causes of their problems)…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Audience Participation, Case Studies, Change Agents
Jardine, Douglas K. – 1990
When a college is held in high esteem by the important and prominent leaders in the larger community, that community can be counted on in times of need or crisis. Therefore, community involvement, though clearly a high moral imperative, also grows out of the college's enlightened self-interest. In an effort to increase involvement in and with the…
Descriptors: College Role, Community Colleges, Community Involvement, Curriculum Design
Gaustad, Joan – 1990
An increase in gang violence and mobility in the last 20 years has alarmed members of the public school community. Gang membership, formation, location, and growth are described. Strategies to counteract gang activity, such as school discipline policies, school and community prevention programs, information sharing networks, and state legislation,…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Community Action, Community Coordination, Community Involvement
VanBiervliet, Alan; Parette, Howard P., Jr. – 1990
The Arkansas Technology Information System (ARTIS) was developed to fill a significant void in existing systems of technical support to Arkansans with disabilities by creating and maintaining a consumer-responsive statewide system of data storage and retrieval regarding assistive technology and services. ARTIS goals also include establishment of a…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Appropriate Technology, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Communication Aids (for Disabled)
Kennedy, Robert L.; And Others – 1986
A suspension school for secondary students, established in the 1977-78 school year in an Arkansas school district has developed specific program goals and procedures. Following a discussion of the school's origins, this paper describes operating procedures, philosophy, support system, and student reaction. Suspensions declined considerably through…
Descriptors: Administrator Role, Community Involvement, Cooperative Programs, Discipline Policy
Office of Human Development Services (DHHS), Washington, DC. – 1983
The 1982 White House Conference on Children and Youth consisted of hundreds of conferences, meetings, activities, hearings, fairs, exhibits, workshops, training sessions, information booths, dinners, awards ceremonies, and local events celebrating a common commitment to American youth. Participating were 45 states, territories, and the District of…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Business Responsibility, Child Abuse, Child Neglect
Zelenak, Mel J. – 1984
Cooperation among the various suppliers of consumer education programs and materials is needed. Consumer education has many problems, e.g., lack of substantial support from the federal level and an audience limited mostly to underachievers. But the greatest problem is that consumer educators consider themselves to be home economists or business…
Descriptors: Business Education, Community Involvement, Consumer Education, Cooperative Planning
Slotnik, William J.; And Others – 1980
The organization and implementation of a community school program is discussed under the topics of citizen participation, functions of the community school council, organizational procedures, and coalition building. Community education consists of two components: the provision of a broad diversity of learning opportunities (after-school programs,…
Descriptors: Advocacy, After School Programs, Citizen Participation, Citizens Councils
