These three documents report on the activities of Child Care Connection-NS (CCC-NS), a service and support organization providing information and resources on the administration of child care programs to residents of Nova Scotia and Canada at large. Formed in 1989, CCC-NS has established itself as an organization that serves all sectors of the…

While specific subjects vary, the theme of this collection of seven articles is the nonformal education of adult migrants in India. The first article documents several aspects of adult education activities undertaken by Mobile Creches for Working Mothers' Children, an organization providing integrated day care for the children (from birth through…

One of a series of sixteen knowledge transformation papers, this paper presents an educational planning model which incorporates citizen involvement at the local level and provides a more responsive and efficient vocational education system. In the first section techniques are discussed for encouraging community participation, such as general…

The manual is a descriptive survey of the currently operational aspects of the community development work carried on by St. Clair College of Applied Arts and Technology in Windsor, Ontario. Separate chapters are devoted to each function within the program: the Vocational College Preparatory Programs; the Corrections Program for instruction of…

To make more valuable to the people those things from which the people are accustomed to derive value has been appropriately been said to be the prime business of legislators. That the schoolhouse, whose value to the people is already great, may become still more valuable to them, is the purpose of the community-organization movement which the…

A demonstration project, called the Cultural Voucher Program, was implemented through support from the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education of The Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. The project enabled cultural institutions to reach a new public, develop new educational programs specifically suited to the needs of new…

The project was designed to provide counseling services for children in poverty areas by preparing community educators to function as counselors. Participants were counselors, teachers, administrators, and employees of helping agencies (Boy Scouts, YMCA, YWCA, etc.) from two school administrative districts evidencing poverty-related problems. The…

The West 80th Street Day Care Center represents a community effort to meet the needs of the children and parents in the New York ghetto area it serves. The heart of the program and a major reason for its success is the fact that the center is community-controlled, with an unusually high degree of parent involvement. To help improve the lives of…

Describes the College for Human Services which trains a new kind of social worker, human service professionals who already know firsthand the problems of those they are trying to help. Students must qualify for federal funding and perform on the job as well as in the classroom to stay. (MF)

The partnerships described in this article represent the fruits of two decades of collaboration between the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), community organizations, and the public schools in Philadelphia (particularly schools in West Philadelphia, where Penn is located). Penn's Center for Community Partnerships (CCP) has worked with other…

Born in the aftermath of social upheaval in 1970, Servol (Service Volunteered for All) is a grassroots community development organization working with preschoolers and adolescents in the Caribbean nations of Trinidad and Tobago. This booklet describes the efforts and successes of this program, founded through the intervention of a Catholic priest…

This report describes the fiscal year 1980 appropriations for implementing the second year of activities under the Career Education Incentive Act. Summarized first is that aspect of the program involving a series of miniconferences with representatives from community-based organizations focusing on minority persons in order to identify and compile…

A Social Sciences Exposition and Fair has been conducted annually by Chesapeake College since 1978 as part of an effort to involve high school students and community organizations in competitive, academic events related to the social sciences and history, and to encourage faculty to participate in student recruitment. The first fair, held in…

Material for this directory was gathered from two questionnaires distributed to independent elementary and secondary schools affiliated with the National Association of Independent Schools. More than 250 schools responded. Four areas of inquiry were covered. The first concerned new organizational structures instituted in schools. Special emphasis…

This feasibility study sought (a) to determine how the University of Chicago, The Woodlawn Organization, and the Chicago Public Schools could collaborate to improve inner-city public education, and (b) to develop an operational plan for such collaboration. Necessary collaborative dialogue was developed and maintained through the creation and…