Written as a practical manual for human service providers at the local level, this guide discusses the interpersonal nature of coordination, gives historical background on the problems of program coordination at the federal level, and provides a detailed checklist for implementing coordination efforts among local agencies. Proposed techniques are…

This guide is one of a series of Education for Parenthood manuals developed by the Salvation Army for use in programs to prepare teenagers for parenthood or for child care careers. This volume outlines a course in parenthood education for teenagers in Salvation Army camps. The 12-unit program is intended for use with a group of 12 to 15 camp…

This guide is one of a series of Education for Parenthood manuals developed by the Salvation Army for use in programs to prepare teenagers for parenthood or for child care careers. This volume outlines four courses for troubled girls and young adult women who receive residential care or who may be served through community outreach. The program was…

The document is the fourth of a subset of six instructional packages focusing on teacher orientation to career education. The module presents four national career education modules of Federal and State career education projects: (1) the school-based model, (2) the experience-based model, (3) the home/community-based model, and (4) the…

The module is one of a series of eight developed to provide inservice training for administrators of career education programs. An opportunity is presented to the administrator to examine career education, its implications for educational change, and the various administrative functions affecting its implementation. Suggestions for the formulation…

The publication, a training manual for rural advisory school boards, was developed by the Alaska State-Operated School System (ASOSS) and the Center for Northern Educational Research. It is a tangible demonstration that educational officials and policy makers at the State level are actively seeking ways to encourage local village residents to…

This booklet, a general guide to citizen eco-action, discusses a plan of action on community environmental problems. It offers factors to be considered in any community eco-action situation, but it is not a rigid set of rules. An overview identifies seven key ideas of environmental issues, including the universal participation of all humans in the…

The materials in this manual are designed to help workshop leaders prepare for and present a workshop for school board members or candidates in school board elections on the role and function of school board members and on the programs, services, and staff of the state school board association. Access to information and resources useful to board…

This Module is designed for use by guidance personnel in grades K-12 and at the postsecondary level. These include teachers, administrators, counselors, paraprofessionals, pupil personnel workers and any others providing services to ethnic minority persons. This Module will help each participant to differentiate between effective and ineffective…

The trainer-directed manual describes a 45-minute school staff orientation session of not more than 36 participants in which the potential of the classroom for teaching the interdependence of society as revelaed through the world of work is explored. The purpose, activities, outcomes duration, setting, and resources needed are stated. The script…

The materials in this manual are designed to help workshop leaders prepare for and present three workshops for school board members on the management team concept, the initiation of the management team, and the evaluation of the management team in operation. The manual consists of six sections: an introduction; three sections on planning,…

This Leader's Guide prepared for the Salvation Army's Home League aims at helping community groups (particularly those which are church related) recognize the symptoms of child abuse and determine their course of action in preventing such abuse. Six forms of child abuse are cited: physical abuse, physical neglect, emotional abuse, emotional…

Materials contained in this guide were developed as part of the guidance component of a comprehensive program of vocational education for career development (kindergarten through university) and were used in inservice workshops in the Sarasota and Manatee school districts in Florida to train occupational placement specialists in micro-interviewing…

The trainer-directed manual describes a 45-minute school staff orientation session of not more than 30 participants in which individual independence and societal interdependence, in terms of leisure time activities, are discussed. Classroom implementation of this concept is then explored. The purpose, activities, outcomes, duration, setting,…

The Education for Parenthood Child Development Guide is designed to encourage Girl Scouts to choose various activities relating to: observing and working with children; drawing conclusions based on their own experiences and evidence; choosing their own activities and projects; collecting their own evidence on child development; creating projects…