The People Mobile is a specially outfitted 24 foot motor home equipped with a meeting room, a telephone, and a wealth of useful information; this machine and its staff travel the back roads of Chenango County, New York supplying rural residents with various social services. (JC)

A study analyzed circulation practices and pricing of mid-sized daily newspapers, seeking to draw together a comprehensive description of the circulation situation for those papers. Seventy-five circulation directors, randomly selected from newspapers with daily circulation between 25,000 and 100,000, completed mailed questionnaires requesting…

Because of the central position of case management theory to the whole of human services, Project SHARE developed this annotated bibliography, which attempts to give a representative variety of views on case management. The bibliography contains abstracts of documents discussing applications of case management in diverse delivery environments and…

Instructional package technology can meet the needs of the aging and aged developmentally disabled person by focusing on specific functional skill instruction by paraprofessionals. (CL)

The proportion of metropolitan interviewees aware of the project tested was not significantly different from the nonmetropolitan interviewee proportion who were aware of the project. Television spots were found to be the most effective form of information dissemination. (KR)

Contends that the primary focus of social welfare management should be to optimize effective services to clients. Addresses several dimensions of effectiveness-oriented management practice as well as some of the common problems encountered by administrators who seek to make client outcomes the primary criterion of agency success. (Author)

Michigan physicians (N=930) were asked whether they made nursing home visits and if not, why not. A typology was developed to differentiate among various physician types based on reasons given. Six physician types were found, each identified with a different policy lever that could be used to encourage them to treat nursing home patients. (Author)

Describes the use of cable television for social service presentations to serve the community and enhance the status of the profession. Four areas are discussed: information and referral, education and prevention, programs for special groups, and community organization issues. (JAC)

The work group report identifies three priority areas for improved community services for disabled adolescents: (1) service systems deficient because of lack of consumer orientation, integration, access to services and systemwide planning, (2) inadequate leadership, and (3) lack of adequate accountability. (CL)

A recently established rural service delivery model in Alberta designed to overcome some difficulties in serving low incidence handicapped students in rural areas is described. The model includes the establishment of regional centers and the provision of outreach services including assessment, inservice, and consultation by specialists otherwise…

Analyzes the interaction between psychiatric services in public general hospitals and in other institutional settings. A one-day census of patients in a New York general hospital showed the hospital was providing care to a large number of patients in need of other, less intensive institutional settings. (BH)

Comprehensive college programs for learning disabled students may include special admission policies, diagnostic testing, and prescriptive planning, special advisement, remediation of basic skills, tutoring in subject area courses, spelling courses for college success, auxiliary aids and services, and counseling services. (CL)

Five care models in services to mentally retarded persons are discussed in terms of relative strengths, weaknesses, effects, and underlying assumptions. The models include child development, medical, social-ecological, behavioral, and psychoeducational models. (CL)

Results of a survey conducted in nine districts of British Columbia indicated that less than 1% of the total student population was funded under the severe behavior problems category. Only one district required specific training in special education for their teachers. Inservice training and program evaluation methods varied from district to…

Services for learning disabled adults are discussed through a comparison of their treatment in the Dutch and Danish delivery of services. Promising practices are related from a European perspective and questions are raised about the evolution of services to learning disabled adults in the United States. (Author/CL)