Noting that America's need for youth services is at an all-time high, this study surveyed frontline youth workers and youth organization directors in Indiana to determine their needs and how those needs were being met. Focus groups with youth workers were also conducted. Key findings are as follows: (1) though 75 percent are college graduates,…

Article examined the role of the community college in developing community services. (RK)

Article explores the question of community involvement as "which" community. (GB)

Author describes the structure and process of a special blend of authoritative leadership and democratic action that he says work well for either alternative or traditional schools. (Editor)

The large school must organize itself to recognize individual human needs or face continual disruption. The author concludes that the specifics depend upon a constellation of factors inherent in any given situation. (Editor)

Critics have placed the primary blame for violence on the streets and in the schools upon the schools. It is, as the author contends, a total community problem. (Editor/CB)

Examines the Institutes in various rural areas and shows how the combined effort of State, community and local groups have gone far to add to the growth and development of society as well as the individual. (RB)

The Committee on Infant and Preschool Child first reaffirms its 1966 statement concerning the battered child syndrome and then adds five additional elements to the statement. (CB)

Since the entry of the government into child care funding in the early 1970s there has been strong adherence to the principle that funding should be community-based. The author briefly discusses some of the problems that have arisen from this decision and suggests some ways to deal with these problems. (Author/MP)