The Urban Crime Prevention Program (UCPP) was designed to combat urban crime through the establishment of 85 innovative neighborhood-based crime prevention projects across nine cities for 18 months. UCPP's main goals were to increase citizen participation in innovative neighborhood crime prevention efforts, to bolster the capabilities of…

There is a need to go beyond English as a Second Language training for the Hmong and Mien living in the United States. Although the two groups are generally lumped together with other Southeast Asian refugee groups, they exhibit cultural and political differences which must be recognized by agencies serving them. The Hmong and Mien refugees lived…

The report summarizes 1983 activities of a multiagency network for severely emotionally disturbed students. Introductory sections review the chronology of significant events for the project, present data from a needs assessment, and describe development of the Individual Therapeutic and Educational Program (ITEP). Sample ITEP forms and procedures…

This document from the task force charged with assessing Wisconsin's adult illiteracy problem and recommending what to do about it reports that the state has 492,720 residents who are at or below the level of functional illiteracy and another 412,720 considered to be "at-risk" due to the increased demand for higher-level basic skills in…

To professionalize health, physical education, and recreation is to have professional practice controlled by the profession. This paper discusses the purpose of four primary types of credentials available for practitioners: licensure, certification, accreditation, and registration. The discussion includes documenting some of the dangers associated…

Instructional materials for use in the U.S. Foreign Service Institute's Russian language training program are based on the diary of a fictional foreign service officer stationed in Moscow. The materials, written in both English and Russian, are organized as chapters in the diary. A quiz accompanies each chapter and focuses on the influence of…

The main responsibility of the U.S. Bureau of the Census, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the National Centers for Health and Education Statistics is to collect, process, analyze, and disseminate statistical data on the economic, physical, and social characteristics of the United States. Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, the federal…

In response to Congressional inquiry, the General Accounting Office investigated the Social Security Administration's (SSA) employment of Hispanics and Spanish-speaking persons and the extent of SSA program materials available in Spanish. SSA's overall employment of Hispanics in 1987 was 6.4%, equal to the national rate of availability of…

This paper reports on an evaluation of implementation strategies of the Education Consolidation and Improvement Act (ECIA), Chapter 2 in New York State. It documents the origin of the state plan and how New York State education agencies coordinated their efforts to distribute ECIA local assistance and competitive grant monies to school districts…

This report is based upon a 1985-86 survey conducted by the Dull Knife Memorial College Indian Child Welfare Project. A series of workshops were conducted throughout Montana to acquaint providers of services for abused and neglected Indian children with the requirements of and issues associated with the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.…

The history of the American Association of College and University Business Officers is traced. After describing the historical background leading to formation of the association, different periods are covered, including the first or formative years (1939-1941), World War II, the postwar period, the decade of the 1950s, and the decade of the 1960s…

A task force was created by the Minnesota state legislature to study two primary questions: who should oversee the private proprietary school sector and what standards should be used to regulate it. The task force met to review information, hear testimony, discuss issues and concerns, and vote on recommended courses of action. Two primary issues…

This handbook provides a practical guide for local communities to use to establish work education councils. It deals both with the role which such a council can play in a community and with the process for setting up a work education council. Following an introduction that discusses the work education council concept and demonstration project, the…

Intended for planners, administrators, and advocates of services to young handicapped children, the casebook is designed to create awareness of the key dimensions of interagency coordination; to describe practices that are replicable or adaptable to other settings and which may facilitate linkages; and to provide a framework for planning…

Intended to help elementary and secondary teachers obtain economics curriculum materials, this publication describes free or inexpensive materials sponsored by business, industry, and government agencies. The listing is selective and includes only those items that were deemed by the authors to be suitable. The kinds of sponsored materials cited…