The survey of agencies providing home care conducted on January 1, 1966 by the Division of Nursing showed that almost 70 percent of the population of the United States and essentially all of the population in the territories lived in areas where some type of organized home care nursing services was available. Since 1959, the number of large cities…

The Technical Assistance Unit (TAU) is one of six work components in the Field Relations and Dissemination Work Unit (FRDWU) of the Improving Teaching Competencies Program (ITCP) of the Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory (NWREL). TAU established the following objectives: (1) to provide technical assistance for any interested users of ITCP…

Part of a course designed to acquaint high school students with basic information concerning careers in community service, this teacher's manual is one of nine (each with accompanying student guide) which constitute a course entitled "Orientation to Public Service." Focus in the units covered by the manual is on government agency…

The major findings and recommendations of a needs assessment study of Oklahoma libraries are summarized. Recommendations focus on public libraries; however, school, academic, and special libraries also participated in this survey. Top priority needs include: more professionally trained librarians; continuing professional education; additional…

An Education for Parenthood demonstration project coordinated by the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers is described. Individual summaries are given for each of the five sites selected to implement the Preparing Teenagers for Parenthood (PTP) program. The list of primary program objectives contains both…

The Teenage Parent Program in the Alexandria City Public Schools was improved in the areas of: increased attendance of pregnant teenagers and adolescent mothers; increased numbers of students earning credit for participation; utilization of a variety of instructional methods by interagency instructors; increased student comprehension of course…

This guide offers school agencies and community-based organizations assistance in developing effective preparation for parenthood programs for teenagers. The contents of the guide represent the culmination of a nationwide program, Education for Parenthood (EFP), whose major purposes include: (1) providing teenagers with the opportunities to…

Intended as a guide for cooperative extension personnel, the purpose of this paper is to suggest how to develop community education programs and how extension personnel can establish working relationships with ongoing community education programs. The author outlines an action model for community education development that consists of 13 steps,…

The purpose of this study of 69 manpower organizations is to investigate the organizational and environmental factors that determine the size and composition of social service agencies' organization sets. The unit of analysis is the organization set, defined as consisting of those organizations with which a focal organization has direct links. Two…

A survey to elicit data on R&D expenditures of state government agencies for fiscal years 1972 and 1973 is covered in this document. In 1973 total R&D expenditures by all sectors of the economy were $30,427 million. The R&D expenditures of State government agencies amounted to 0.9 percent of this total. Expenditures of state government agencies to…

This manual is designed as a practical guide to establishing and maintaining a viable program of community services/continuing education in the community college and presents material for use by the practitioner in the field. It is organized as a set of guidelines explaining various important aspects of a program and deals with those specifics…

A special issue of "Policy Analysis" on the HEW Mega-Proposal contains papers on restructuring all programs and policies of the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Comments by Elliot Richardson about the origin and need for the Mega-Proposal preface an introduction by Laurence Lynn and John Seidl of the story of the…

This pamphlet restates commonly held ideas about welfare and presents facts and figures in refutation. (1) The myth that welfare is the good life--color TV's and Cadillacs; argues that welfare is the "good life" only for those who have not experienced it. (2) The myth that most welfare recipients are cheaters; studies are said to show that only…

Domestic communication satellites and video compression techniques will increase communication channel capacity and reduce cost of video transmission. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Ames Research Center, Stanford University, and Carleton University are participants in an experiment to develop, demonstrate, and evaluate the…

This document is intended to present background information on the basic consumer protection issues in postsecondary education. Topics discussed are: (1) recruitment practices of postsecondary schools; (2) the role of a state agency in consumer protection; (3) consumer rights, responsibilities and redress of consumer protection; (4) advertising…