This document consists of the three volume IX issues of "Volunteer Voice," a newsletter of the Tacoma Community House Training Project. The first issue consists of one teacher's personal account of English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) teaching and includes the following: an annotated list of ESL text books, a list of activities resources,…

Two models of the senior center are examined: (1) the social agency model, which views senior centers as programs especially for the poor and the disengaged and (2) the voluntary organization model, which sees centers as for active elderly who have strong attachments to the community. Findings support the voluntary organization model. Paper…

The document serves two purposes: to describe the planning process, staffing, materials, organization, and results of the Austin (Texas) Learning Center-Library Pilot Project; and to provide guidance to those who wish to develop similar programs and adult learning centers in their communities. The report describes the Austin experience, together…

Youth Opportunity Centers (YOC's) sponsored a Testing, Informing, Discussing, and Evaluating (TIDE) program for youth in the summers of 1966 and 1967. This report provides data primarily on the second phase of TIDE which was operated from July to December of 1967 at 29 youth centers in 22 states. In this second part of the program, 1,031 youth…

A new educational social service center, adjacent to the largest high school in Wayne, Michigan, will provide ten essential services in four major buildings. (Author/MLF)

By examining one community center in some detail this study attempts to consider leisure, and draws attention to "its mode of use" by comparing two groups of adolescents who attend this center regularly for quite different leisure purposes. The intent was to measure how far such leisure proposals represent preconceptions and value-judgments of…

This report presents the findings of focus groups convened to determine what the parents of youth participants in the New York City Beacons think about the program. The Beacons initiative is a comprehensive model of school-community-family partnerships undertaken by New York City in 1991. The initiative originally enabled 10 community-based…

Describes a community planning laboratory process held to resolve the issue of reuse of excess school facilities. (Author/MLF)

Community education in New Jersey will benefit from legislation financing the construction of facilities that deliver community and social services. Five departments of state government are to cooperatively develop a minimum of ten local models of community education facilities. (Author/MLF)

At the Shenandoah Solar Recreation Center in Georgia, solar energy is used not only for heating and cooling, but also for ice making. (Author/MLF)

Describes the variety of services and activities offered older adults in the nation's more than 5,000 senior centers, reviews findings from several surveys as to who uses the centers and why, discusses funding sources, and suggests evaluation of senior centers to improve their services. (MF)

A political movement which overemphasizes the local community is likely to be counterproductive to progressive social changes. The growth and development of localism, contained in such concepts as community control and self-determination, can lead to intra-neigborhood political battles rather than to organization against wider social forces.…

A program in English for speakers of other languages is held in a South London community center. It takes a holistic approach, providing emotional security, helping students with external problems, and forming networks to overcome isolation and lack of resources. (SK)

This study, part of a larger study that tested 6 counseling workshops based on a "Life Skills" developmental group model, involved a thematic analysis of taped descriptions of experiences of 27 adolescents in relation to their career aspirations and participation in an adolescent developmental peer counseling program at House of Shalom,…

This article describes activities of the Homeland Neighborhood Cultural Center (Long Beach, California) which is located in the most culturally diverse section of the city and provides accessible artistic outlets for individuals and groups traditionally excluded from art establishments. Program development, staff, activities, and relationship to…