The NSPRA is dedicated to helping practicing school administrators establish and pursue meaningful programs in public relations. (Editor)

Describes the Cuyahoga Heritage Project and the grass roots origins of the environmental education movement. (GB)

Many urban residents do not have the emotional support of an adequate network of kin, friends, or neighbors. It is proposed that such persons join together into artificial extended families or family clusters. Experiences in the formation and operation of a cluster are described on the basis of participant observation. (Author)

Describes three projects that show how educational, governmental, and public service agencies can cooperate to create community centers. (Author/DN)

Discusses a unique coordination of public and private resources in Eastern Baltimore County, Md., which has made possible a variety of allied health programs and services by Essex Community College and Franklin Square Hospital. (Author/RK)

MIDNY'', an acronym for Mid-New York--a five county area, was involved in a six year Cooperative Extension Service pilot effort in community resource development. (Author/RK)

This article explains how a wide variety of psychological education techniques can be applied in a systematic program to train parents to help other parents whose families may have drug related problems. This shows how paraprofessionals can be trained quickly and effectively to solve sociopsychological problems in the community. (Author)

Title I authorizes grants or contracts for all or part of the cost of planning, establishing, or operating community-based services for the prevention of delinquency. (Author)

The Finnish Municipal Association offers planning, consulting, and training services to the municipalities to assist them in the management and development of their administration and economy. (Author/GB)

Article discusses Brazil's Domestic Peace Corps program whereby thousands of university students participate in training and work programs in the country's remote wastelands and rain forests. (GB)

The author discusses the scope of psychological problems which confront teenagers and describes methods employed within this therapeutic community to foster self-understanding and ease the transition from childhood to adulthood. (Editor)

Introduction to profiles of some community schools -- places where the education of children and the activities of a community occur either alternately or simultaneously. (Author)

Describes a program in which law students teach the basic concepts of law in public schools. (PG)

Describes a relatively isolated rural workshop program, the Appalachian Film Workshop, Inc., a division of the APPALSHOP, Whitesburg, Ky. The Workshop, started in 1969 with OEO funding and under the direction of the American Film Institute, trains local young people in the art of movie making and producing films on Appalachia. (RJ)