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Stanton-Nichols, Kathleen; Hatcher, Julie; Cecil, Amanda – Metropolitan Universities, 2015
Strategies to institutionalize service-learning are well documented (Furco 1996; Holland, 2000). Using Kecskes (2009) Community-Engaged Department Rubric we evaluated service-learning institutionalization within a school at a metropolitan campus. As a result, we propose adding an additional dimension, social return on investment. This added…
Descriptors: Service Learning, School Community Relationship, Partnerships in Education, Metropolitan Areas
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Arling, Greg; Kane, Robert L.; Mueller, Christine; Bershadsky, Julie; Degenholtz, Howard B. – Gerontologist, 2007
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between nursing home staffing level, care received by individual residents, and resident quality-related care processes and functional outcomes. Design and Methods: Nurses recorded resident care time for 5,314 residents on 156 units in 105 facilities in four states (Colorado,…
Descriptors: Nurses, Nursing Homes, Institutionalized Persons, Daily Living Skills
Pilat, Mary – 1992
Indiana 4-H Youth Programs are being used to enhance the quality of life for troubled adolescents in residential group homes and economically disadvantaged urban areas and to provide summer-school programs for children of migrant farm workers. Four basic types of program delivery modes exist in Indiana: clubs, junior leader program activities,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Client Characteristics (Human Services), Economically Disadvantaged, Group Homes