Volunteers assume a wide variety of responsibilities in community organizations. In service-oriented activities, adult and community educators make extensive use of volunteers, asking them to fulfill a number of roles and giving them such responsibilities as tutoring, counseling, problem solving, and decision making. Issue- or cause-oriented…

The Cooperative Extension Service has become the largest adult education and human service program in the United States. It makes use of about 1.5 million adult volunteers who spend an average of more than 100 hours each conducting Extension programs under the guidance of extension personnel. Volunteers play a variety of roles including policy…

This handbook was developed for volunteer group leaders participating in Brevard Community College's Project BEST-PAL (Basic Education Skills Through-Parenting Affective Learning). Project BEST-PAL was developed especially for low socioeconomic parents who are in need of an opportunity to explore effective parenting, with a primary objective being…

Three hundred volunteers have participated in nine training courses, eight weeks each, in a California Cooperative Extension Program for volunteers who are able to teach consumer homemaking information to families with limited resources. (AJ)

Describes a program at Colorado State University where the professional staff at the counseling center has attempted to systematize the selection, training and evaluation of volunteer help. The program is unique in that volunteers upgrade their skills in return for service. (HMV)

The implementation of Indian adult education programs will depend upon the establishment of adequate staffing and training requirements and ensuring that identification, recruitment, and training is adequate for the needs. (Author/AG)

The author examines the roles volunteers can assume in the school and the potential for conflicts with teachers before offering guidelines for the selection and orientation of volunteers. It is hoped that these general guidelines will apply to a volunteer program that uses older adults. (IRT)

To provide assistance to South Carolina schools in developing volunteer tutorial programs, the Competency Testing Project at Winthrop College created this manual on program development. This manual is designed to be duplicated and disseminated to coordinators and tutors; and although designed for an elementary school program, it can be used as a…

This experiment shows that most children's expectations for their own performance, measured by their rate of volunteering, can be increased. The experiment is closely modeled after laboratory experiments with adults in formal expectation theory. White middle class suburban children of grades 1, 2, 3 and 4 participated in a story-telling task. In…

A method of supplying consultation services to school districts is reported. The philosophy underlying this approach is that teaching front line personnel better methods and techniques of handling mental health problems will ultimately lead to true prevention by way of curricular change, changes in teaching techniques, and clearer definition of…

Suggestions for expanding and improving the volunteer participation in all local Head Start programs are provided in this manual. The primary aims of the volunteer programs are to: (1) provide additional staff in all areas of the program, thus increasing the effectiveness of the paid staff; (2) give interested local citizens, including parents of…

The author elaborates on informal learning in discussing staff development for volunteers. He suggests that ways be found to integrate classroom and on-the-job learning; that staff developers help people learn more effectively; and that learning be supported through job selection, organizational support, and a system of learning relationships and…

Prior to improving volunteer services, a leisure agency should have a realistic expectation of the desired accomplishments, both in individual and organizational terms. A systems approach to volunteer management is discussed that includes the components of planning and coordination; recruitment and orientation; training and placement; and…

A training manual for volunteer fund-raisers is presented. The technique of soliciting is described and an interview with top volunteer Jerome Stone on fund-raising is included (MLW)

It appears from this study that volunteers may be largely self-selected in regard to social skills, and further training may not be necessary. The study thus lends some support to those who have argued that the success of nonprofessionals has much to do with their natural'' social skills. (Author)