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Direct linkJackson, LeRon C.; Hanson, Laura C.; Hayes, Michelle; Green, Melissa; Peacock, Stacie; Corbie-Smith, Giselle – Health Education & Behavior, 2014
Background: Active social and spiritual support for persons with cancer and other serious illnesses has been shown to improve psychological adjustment to illness and quality of life. Objective: To evaluate a community-based support team intervention within the African American community using stakeholder interviews. Methods: Support team members…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Attitude Measures, African Americans, Diseases
Download full textDiCaprio, Deborah Bell – 1989
The report describes a Marist College (New York) program which places students to work with a variety of local nonprofit community agencies. In return for their work in the community, program participants who demonstrate financial need receive up to $500 per semester in tuition credit (applied toward reduction of the students' education loan…
Descriptors: College Students, Community Organizations, Community Programs, Community Services
Bennett, Lula M. – 1977
A study was conducted at Valencia Community College (VCC) to evaluate VCC's success in meeting the community's need for volunteers, to determine the needs of student volunteers, and to discover what kinds of students were participating in the student volunteer program. Results of a questionnaire completed by 72 student volunteers indicated that…
Descriptors: Agencies, Community Colleges, Community Involvement, Community Organizations
Green, Karen Reed; And Others – 1985
This guide, which is addressed to community-based organizations desiring to start or expand existing adult literacy programs, deals with recruiting and training volunteer literacy tutors. Outlined in the guide are strategies for expanding community outreach efforts (identifying who needs help and where help is typically obtained, learning from…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Adult Literacy, Adult Reading Programs, Adult Students
Cummings, Milton C.; Allen, Muriel M.; Hess, Karl – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1961
The Office of Education is requested frequently to supply information about education and community organization for aging. This publication adds to the literature in the growing field of professional and community concern. The publication may have its major use as a handbook for community and school leaders who wish specific information about…
Descriptors: Educational History, Older Adults, Lifelong Learning, Adult Education
Butler, Fred Clayton – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1920
Americanization is in the end a task for the individual citizen and not for the Government. The individual can be successful in so human a problem only by having a sympathetic knowledge of this task and of those with whom he must deal. To supply at least the foundations of this knowledge is the purpose of this book. The contents are taken largely…
Descriptors: Educational History, Immigrants, Citizenship Education, Guides
