The sixth of nine volumes (EC 114 401-409) contains nine newsletters and sample information materials from the National Institute on New Models for Community Recreation and Leisure Programs for Handicapped Children and Youth. Newsletters focus on regional meetings and issues such as the recreation implications of P.L. 94-142, the Education for All…

A look at a video experiment which brings needed service improvements and a sense of community to an Israeli neighborhood with special problems, and charts the way for development of "alternate" video elsewhere in the country. (Author/HB)

Describes a community-based program to divert youths from the juvenile justice system. The program's special features are (1) data collection that permits evaluation and accountability and (2) liaison with justice personnel, service agencies, and the community. (RH)

Museums offer a range of programs for visually handicapped visitors. Professionals serving visually handicapped people are called upon to act as consultants, as are the visually handicapped themselves, to use their experience in advising museums on outreach programs, tours, and other services that will draw in the hesitant consumer. (Author/CL)

The Mental Health Program of the University of Illinois at Chicago has demonstrated significant consumer demand for outpatient community mental health services for people with mental retardation. Public policy planners should consider that outpatient programs may reach many more people than programs within state institutions, especially for those…

A Management Information Exchange is suggested as a tool for the extension professional to be more effective in his work with small businessmen. It is organized and operated at the community level and makes the expertise of some businessmen available to others. (EB)

The author describes how her personal interest in puzzles led her to create Puzzle Parties at the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico. Now regular events, these puzzle parties attract several hundred adults and children from the community. (SJL)

Traces 22-year development of counseling into an established profession in Ireland, paying particular attention to pertinent training courses that have emerged in 1980s. Examines the practice of community counseling. Claims the evolution of a professional association for community counselors has not yet been established, and collaborative…

Provides evaluative data from one community demonstrating the success of its diversion program. Individuals (n=99) who successfully completed shoplifting diversion program were randomly selected from larger population of 246 completers. During two-year period, 4 percent of group were rearrested, compared to rearrest rates of approximately 25…

This paper considers how community literacy programs factor into broader economies of literacy development. The author analyzes two Appalachian community literacy projects, Shirley Brice Heath's ethnographic project in the Carolina Piedmont and Highlander Research and Education Center's organizing efforts with the Appalachian People's Movement, to…

In a time of seemingly rampant budget cuts in the arts in school systems throughout the country, a children's art show reaps many rewards. It can strengthen family-school relationships and community ties and stimulate questions and comments about the benefits of art and its significance in the development of young children. In this photo essay of…