This manual is designed to allow service providers at displaced homemaker centers to update and refresh their knowledge and information of consumer concepts and to initiate and implement some consumer education services designed to meet the needs of displaced homemakers. Material is divided into five parts. Part 1 focuses on financial management…

An inservice training program for advisers of undergraduate students that was implemented at Michigan State University in 1981 is discussed. Four primary ingredients were essential to establish and sustain the program: financial support and sponsorship by the central administration, the identification and authorization of the appropriate unit and…

This paper describes the gaming techniques used at the University of San Francisco Counseling Center to enhance growth and to evaluate the training of professional and paraprofessional staff in the areas of crisis intervention, student services, and self-awareness. Gaming is defined as an exercise in which people either act as themselves or play…

The Administrative Writing Program developed at the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) has served both the administrators and the writing staff that offers it. Using course material that comes from UCLA office files, the program teaches writing as an administrative act, focusing on four topics: the written product, the writing process,…

School board members usually have great power but little training. The literature supports the need for orientation and inservice training. A survey of a random sample of newly elected board members and superintendents in Illinois revealed a difference between the two groups in perception of training. Apparently superintendents believe that more…

A behavior modification program in a rehabilitation center requires a staff member skilled in behavior modification, as well as considerable inservice training of staff who work with clients. A workshop without walls approach also requires a staff heavily involved in employer contacts and follow-up of clients. (EA)

The Directory of In-Service Training lists short courses and seminars in five subject areas; science, technology, management, medicine/health, and law/government. Lists are arranged by subject and by location. Additional information pertains to the course title, starting date and duration of the course, sponsor, and fee. (AG)

Management by objectives is a tool which is being used by the Arkansas Rehabilitation Services for the Blind to establish a planned process for identifying and achieving stated service objectives. (LH)

Local in-service training was used in Louisiana as a solution to declining interest in adult education classes in agriculture. In-service training of local teachers and administrators consisted of a community survey, determining community training needs, developing instructional units and resources, identifying resource persons and prospective…

The purposes of this study were to: (1) determine the feasibility of increasing the quality of job performances of counselors and identifying changes in career maturity attitudes of counselors in the area of personnel needs of business and industry; (2) examine the effects of a structured inservice program to aid counselors in performing job…

The Department of Labor, other Federal and state government agencies, and private producers have developed a significant amount of occupational information which can be useful to counselors and others who help students in making the transition from school to work. However, over the years the training of users has not kept pace with the development…

The purpose of this study was to determine, first, whether there was a need for more counselors in the schools of Central and Northern New Hampshire; and second, whether the same area needed a counselor preparation program or an in-service continued training program. The study also attempted to gain specific ideas concerning the design of an…

Proceedings of nine "mini-conferences" (each consisting of four representatives from each of three associations) on career education held during the period January-April, 1977, are contained in this report. Also included are a series of statements/documents prepared independently by association subcommittees. Various issues of concern to the…

One function of the American College Personnel Association's Continuing Education Committee is the assessing of current professional development activities and needs within the field. This paper reports the results of a survey initiated in November 1973 to elicit data about this question from student affairs programs throughout the country.…