This paper focuses on the catchment area, administration, continuity of care, staffing and funding of community mental health centers. A companion paper explores the area of planning for services. (Author)

Describes local Head Start programs designed to provide a system of comprehensive health care for children to receive after they leave Head Start. (NH)

The authors attempt to establish what a project is in the vocabulary of the monograph under consideration. An example of a project, the Crisis Center, serves to define the terms community project and community participation. (Author)

Discusses the paraprofessional in the New York area. Findings from the study raise questions not only about the role and training of paraprofessionals but of professionals in community mental health. (Author/EK)

Describes a training program which sought to train a staff of mental health professionals to function in different ways in a reorganized urban mental health system. (AN)

Drug education programs must account for the values of the students at whom such education is directed. Students' commitments to fairness, consistency, compassion, and reasonableness must be honored. Society's laws run counter to students' values, making the role of the drug educator difficult if not impossible. (Author)

The authors present a curriculum for the comprehensive health educator. This program will enable the student to participate in the problem solving seminars and field work which will prepare him to attack the health education problems that he will face on the job. (Author)

This study reports on the perception of alcohol education among a representative sample of high school students. The data show the students to be interested in this type of subject matter. However, few are receiving information, and the quality of that transmitted is questionable. (Author)

Discusses the concept of public health education and its affinity with the development of the community. Presents the opinions of various authorities or the fundamental opinions of the development of the community. Underlines the importance of these principles for the direction and evaluation of programs. (RR)

An innovative drug information and rap program on a Big 10 campus provides elements that may be adopted for other campus drug programs. This article proposes a policy and evaluates peer counselors, a library, professional referring, use of films, and services in dorms and in classrooms. (Author)

The authors discuss limitations of research techniques and raise questions about some of the results of a study designed to train nonprofessionals for community mental health project leadership. (BY)

The use of information systems makes possible the first step in the direction of conserving manpower, increasing services, identifying unmet needs, providing program information, and developing better planning for financing and delivering of health services. Presented at American College Health Association, Oklahoma City, 1969. (Author)