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Download full textJohnson, James N. – 1985
Adult illiteracy is a major social problem in America today; it is disproportionately high among the poor and minorities. Among the complex causes of illiteracy are ineffective schooling, intergenerational transmission of literacy or illiteracy (reinforced by poverty and discrimination), and rising standards of functional literacy. Beyond the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Adults, Community Education
Blum, Ruth H. – Journal of the International Association of Pupil Personnel Workers, 1975
Describes the role of a school social worker with specific details as to functions the social worker should fulfill with students, parents, in the students' homes, and in the community. (EJT)
Descriptors: Ancillary School Services, Counselor Role, Elementary Education, Individual Development
Lauffer, Sandra; And Others – 1979
Summaries of 18 different projects involving the use of satellite communications are presented in this report, including PEACESAT Education and Communication Experiments, USP Network Satellite Communication Project, Project Satellite, Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE), Appalachian Education Satellite Program, Alaska Education…
Descriptors: Communications Satellites, Extension Education, Foreign Countries, Information Networks
Engleberg, Isa N., Ed.; Leach, Ernest R., Ed. – 1981
Developed by the Marketing Task Force at Prince George's Community College (PGCC) in 1981, this report presents a plan which identifies educational service needs, recommends strategies for responding to those needs, and suggests a marketing approach. The report begins by providing background on the four-stage marketing process implemented during…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Needs Assessment, Outreach Programs, Public Relations
Okimoto, Dave – 1981
This guide provides program components and models of outreach, information, and referral services for refugees. Possible delivery approaches are outlined with reference to successful programs in the United States. The pamphlet is designed to aid in the selection of program approaches that best suit each community. In addition, it serves as a guide…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Community Information Services, Immigrants, Indochinese
PDF pending restorationComptroller General of the U.S., Washington, DC. – 1978
The Legal Services Corporation, established in 1974, is the primary provider of funds for free civil legal services for the poor. Substantial sums for such services are also available from other Federal, State, and local sources and are administered by Corporation and non-Corporation providers. Some Corporation grantees are not aware, however, of…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Community Information Services, Coordination, Economically Disadvantaged
Parker, Janet M. – 1977
A consumer education outreach project used a community, off-campus laboratory approach with fifty-seven girls and ten boys from high schools in the Santa Barbara area in the development of a program to better prepare students to meet the challenges of everyday living. The assumption made was that motivation to learn would increase in…
Descriptors: Consumer Education, Field Experience Programs, High Schools, Home Economics Education
Long, Nicholas – 1975
This appendix accompanies Volume 1 of the Information and Referral Center Study and the Evalaution of Information and Referral Services for the Elderly, and contains job descriptions for the Wisconsin Information Services (WIS) project staff, guidelines for proposals for project participation, the interview used for proposed I and R Center sites,…
Descriptors: Community Resources, Information Needs, Information Services, Older Adults
Alberta Vocational Centre, Edmonton. – 1979
An executive report summarizes the Alberta Vocational Centre's development of a portable individualized, competency-based learning system for use in an adult basic education program in a non-institutional community location. The report deals with the project's rationale, development (including management, curricular development, budget, and site…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Community Programs, Competency Based Education, Functional Literacy
National Inst. for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (Dept. of Justice/LEAA), Washington, DC. – 1980
This report includes content areas consistent with the major activities and program components of the National Institute for Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (NIJJDP). The major statutorily-established functions of NIJJDP are assessed in terms of research, evaluation, and program development, information development and dissemination,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Correctional Rehabilitation, Delinquency, Delinquency Prevention
Blocker, Merrie D.; Gurian, B. S. – 1979
An outreach program was conducted during the 1978-79 year by the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts for the low-income elderly in conjunction with the local councils on aging and funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and Title III of the Older Americans Act. Components of the program are described, including drop-in workshops at…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Programs, Art Education, Low Income Groups
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. Adult Education Service. – 1978
This conference proceedings report contains abstracts of seven 1977-78 Virginia Adult Basic Education (ABE) projects presented at a dissemination conference for ABE administrators and teachers. The abstracts vary in length (two to seven pages) and format and focus on program objectives, procedures or strategies, expected results, findings,…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Basic Education, Conference Proceedings, Educational Television
James, Mary; And Others – 1979
The major objective of the Independent Adoption Society's two year Community Recruitment Project was to provide permanent family care for non-Caucasian children and for children with mental handicaps. The project sought to identify and develop community resources to work together to assist the children and to encourage people who would consider…
Descriptors: Adoption, Blacks, Children, Community Education
Watson, Rollin J. – 1975
The Essex Community College (Maryland) full-time college program for maximum security inmates at the House of Correction at Jessup evolved as a natural outlet for numbers of the high school graduates which the prison secondary school was producing. Students proved to be well prepared, highly motivated, and well received by other inmates and the…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Correctional Education, Correctional Rehabilitation, Counseling
Nassau County Board of Cooperative Educational Services, Westbury, NY. – 1972
This outreach program designed for implementation in 1971-1972 included descriptions of: (1) initial contacts with eligible secondary schools; (2) survey of attitudes; (3) large-group career activities; (4) school personnel training; (5) group and individual counseling; (6) career conferences; and (7) parent and community group activities. The…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Cooperative Education, Disadvantaged Youth
