This report suggests a research design for a 5-year investigation of the feasibility and of the effects of three differentiated educational programs on the rate of recidivism for prison inmates. Eligibility for the program will be based on possession of a high school diploma or equivalency certificate, desire to participate in the program, and…

Highlights from reports summarizing the 1968 activities of federal agencies responsible for major programs in employment and placement of the handicapped are included in this document. Agencies are: (1) Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, where the primary focus is a public rehabilitation program with related efforts of prevention,…

This inventory is designed to classify avocational activities in a systematic manner. It is patterned after the "Dictionary of Occupational Terms," and can be used: (1) to evaluate patterns of activities, (2) to explore avocational activities, (3) to facilitate information retrieval, and (4) to serve as basis for classifying data. The first part…

This report examines the college records of students at the University of South Carolina who had previously been incarcerated. Records were available for 40 students with varying types of criminal backgrounds who had been admitted to the university during the period 1965-73. Only one of these students had graduated from the institution, and the…

This document reviews the Virginia Research Utilization Specialist (RUS) project which began in 1969 to assist in demonstrating effective methods of research utilization in the State Vocational Rehabilitation Agencies. Nine RUS personnel were involved in the demonstration project and developed the following activities: (1) work on a statewide…

The primary purpose of the project was to rehabilitate public assistance recipients into gainful occupations, and to develop and demonstrate techniques for the utilization of rehabilitation aides. Initially, the project attempted to provide consultative services to the Statewide program for serving public assistance recipients and improving…

This pamphlet presents a model for the establishment of a Youth Service Bureau (YSB) in response to recommendations set forth in the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice (1967). Objectives of a YSB are the prevention of juvenile delinquency and the diversion of youths from the juvenile justice system. To meet…

To analyze selected demographic and psychometric characteristics of dropouts and graduates from vocational training at a comprehensive rehabilitation center, nearly 600 dropouts and graduates of the Pennsylvania Rehabilitation Center were studied. Five variables were found to be useful in predicting dropouts: (1) preselected training goal upon…

Programs in Michigan, North Carolina, and Oklahoma, under the Vocational Rehabilitation Act were reviewed by the General Accounting Office to determine the ability of the programs to meet the needs of all handicapped persons and their effectiveness in helping individual handicapped persons. Under the act, before vocational rehabilitation services…

The report details specifics of developing and implementing a rugged 3-week camping program for problem boys (delinquents and dropouts) ages 15-18 years. The survival camping experience functioned as an integrated part of the total rehabilitation agency. Described is how the camping program is therapeutic in the sense that the youths learn…

A 4-YEAR REHABILITATION PROJECT, DEVELOPED TO INVESTIGATE MEANS OF ALLEVIATING DEFICIENCIES IN SCHOOL-REHABILITATION SERVICES, IS DESCRIBED. THROUGH A SERIES OF RESEARCH REPORTS AND DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS THIS STUDY EVALUATED PROGRAMS PREPARING ADOLESCENT MENTALLY RETARDED FOR EMPLOYMENT, AND AT THE SAME TIME FACILITATING COORDINATION OF COMMUNITY…

Adult education prison programs are examined in terms of their availability, the development of supportive academic faculties, and their rehabilitative effects upon prisoner students. (LH)

Vocational education offers important opportunities for the successful rehabilitation of offenders through programs in training and career guidance. (EC)

The basic purpose of the Organization for Rehabilitation through Training (ORT) is to teach and train people in working skills in order that they may make their own way in life free from charity. Describes ORT's efforts in Israel where it is the country's largest supplier of skilled manpower. (Author/RK)

A stratification system was designed and implemented based on the principles of reality therapy for use in a male adolescent drug rehabilitation center. The program involved four levels in an ascending order of responsibility and privileges. Problems are discussed as well as requirements for successfully implementing reality therapy in…