The author describes "Comprehensive Care for Families," an outpatient community mental health center in Chicago which helps to conduct a consultation project serving public school classes for the emotionally disturbed. Based upon students' own expression of goals, a group treatment program was initiated to increase self concept,…

Schools could benefit by integrating some of their efforts with similar efforts of other human service agencies. This might help alleviate the competition for resources among human services organizations. Researchers must study health, social work, business, community mental health, and other fields to gain broader understanding and insight…

Selected to aid academic library administrators in developing a basic understanding of how a library maintains numerous relationships with various campus departments, governmental agencies, and funding authorities, citations for 19 books and articles, produced between July l967 and June 1979 are provided, together with abstracts. Conclusions…

This booklet outlines a plan for the delivery of human nutrition research and services, in accord with the 1977 Federal Food and Agriculture Act. Research priorities are identified as: (1) nutritional needs; (2) actual eating habits and their effects on health; (3) factors which shape eating habits; (4) production and distribution of food; (5)…

Since World War I, efforts have been made to coordinate the activities of community agencies involved in adult education. Two basic approaches may be identified: community organization (stressing administration) and community development (stressing process). There are comparatively few studies which deal directly with community organization for…

This report is an interpretation of the Colorado Department of Education's attempt to meet a pressing challenge in education: the need for the state to provide the leadership and coordination that is necessary in the development and implementation of state-wide plans to effect needed changes in education. This report attempts to: (1) Determine the…

Principles and philosophies projected by leading authorities in the park, recreation, and conservation fields are reflected in this conference report. The conference focused on today's peak-performance demands using the theme "Excellence." The report consists of 90 summaries of speeches and presentations on a variety of topics including community…

Recent redesigning of manpower programs reflects the shift toward the job and income approach to fighting poverty. Because money spent to provide jobs will ultimately reduce welfare costs, practically all manpower programs have undergone or will undergo significant redesign. This report was prepared to supply community development personnel and…

The concerted Services in Training and Education (CSTE) program was designed at the federal level to coordinate the resources of all appropriate federal agencies and related state agencies in rural development. The pilot Minnesota program focused on alternative strategies in area development, specifically a rural outmigration area with low income,…

Reports of job-hopping, opportunism, grantsmanship, and wheeling-dealing, based on the availability of federal research funds, by university faculty has created much concern in governmental and educational circles about the ethical problems these activities pose for the academic profession. In 1963, the Office of Science and Technology(OST) and…

The report of the Research Coordinating Unit for Vocational Education located in the State Department of Education describes activities relating to the following objectives: (1) locating and disseminating research findings, (2) sponsoring in-service training on research methods and design, (3) acting as a liaison between agencies and organizations…

This document describes the installation and evaluation of the Regional Information System within the Michigan-Ohio Regional Educational Laboratory (MOREL). MOREL is an agency established to develop and test alternatives to current educational practice under Title IV of ESEA. The Regional Information System was established to provide referrals to…

The study identifies and describes prevailing patterns and promising practices of joint participation between teacher education institutions and the industries of the United States in initial preparation of industrial education teachers or in upgrading those already in service. A survey of 125 chairmen of industrial education departments provided…

This paper on longitudinal/intervention research is divided into a discussion of the problems of this strategy and a working paper. Many of the problems are practical ones, concerning the uncertain trends of funding and the drifting of goals and priorities; all of the methodological problems and inadequacies of longitudinal research and…

The environmental quality of a region depends largely upon the environmental education received by the citizenry. The original act creating the TVA provided for involvement in education experimentation, and the agency has been providing some environmental education or related services since its inception. This study validated the need for a…