With increasing demands placed on academic achievement and limited time during the school day, school administrators struggle to implement daily physical education for all students. As this trend becomes more prevalent, community-based organizations need to come forward to offer more after school and weekend programs to assist youth in achieving…

This article argues with a literature review that a simplistic distinction between strong and weak evidence hinged on the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs), the federal "gold standard" for generating rigorous evidence on social programs and policies, is not tenable with evaluative studies of complex, field interventions such as…

Social enterprises are businesses with primarily social objectives that reinvest their surplus in the community rather than seeking to maximise profit for shareholders. However, there is a debate regarding the drivers and the role of the social enterprise, the outcome of which is expected to have serious implications for the future of the…

We conducted an online statewide survey of teachers of students with moderate and severe intellectual disabilities to determine the extent to which their students were included in school extracurricular and community recreation activities. For the 252 teacher respondents who indicated that their primary caseload consisted of students with…

AN EXPERIMENT WAS CONDUCTED IN MOBILIZING COLLEGE STUDENTS FOR SUMMER ASSISTANCE IN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND POVERTY PROGRAMS. APPROXIMATELY 100 STUDENT VOLUNTEERS WERE CHOSEN TO PARTICIPATE ON THE BASES OF THEIR STABILITY, MATURITY, ABILITY TO COMMUNICATE, AND DEDICATION. THEY WERE PLACED IN SIX AREAS WHERE COMPREHENSIVE COMMUNITY ACTION…

A community recreation program for Spanish speaking migrant children in Dade County, Florida, is described. (JD)

List of plays scheduled at community theatres for the 1974-75 season. (CH)

The workbook is intended to help people working on a community level to secure services for handicapped children. It assumes that the reader already has gathered data to determine gaps in the community's existing service system and that a list of needed services has been identified and prioritized. An introductory section examines what is meant by…

The aftercare program described in this article provides a community treatment program for adult psychiatric clients that aims at facilitating their adequate and independent adjustment to the community. (Author/JA)

The Project is committed to the philosophy that career education should be a total educational endeavor for the community. It is an instructional, counseling, guidance, and placement program which begins at the preschool level and extends through community college and adult education. (AG)

A real community program needs not only programs but a new perspective on the total program of the library aimed at joining the theoretical to the practical, with a shift in accent to the needs of the patron as an individual. (Author/PF)

The second of three documents of a project designed to help North Carolina counties plan community based status offender programs presents a general planning model. An overview traces five steps of the planning decision process, from determining the importance of status offender needs to the county to making program funding decisions based on…

TO COMBAT POVERTY IN THE OZARKS, A TOTAL COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM IS RECOMMENDED. IT INVOLVES A COMMUNITY EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SECTION SETTING UP A CURRICULUM INVOLVING PROBLEMS OF EDUCATION, HEALTH, COMMUNITY, WELFARE, RECREATION, AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES. KEY LEADERS SHOULD CONFER OFTEN ABOUT PROBLEMS IN THEIR COUNTIES. A REVITALIZED…