This article describes Oakwood City School District's College Connection Study, which is now in its eighth year. The purpose of the study is to help the educators in the district learn how to effectively prepare students for success in the colleges of their choice. Teachers, administrators, and other staff members travel to colleges to conduct…

This article explores the developing role of mediation as a conflict resolution process in schools. It gives an accepted definition and clarifies the purposes of mediation, outlining the range of contexts in and beyond schools in which mediation is already offered as a formal intervention. The typical process of mediation itself is described. The…

Personal, career, and placement counseling of deaf students and sources for communication services, mechanical aids, and recreational support are discussed. Community and commercial resources are identified, and suggestions for creating programs that enhance faculty sensitivity and deaf student development are offered. (Author)

The bulletin consists primarily of project reports reflecting California's public school guidance programs. The content is divided into four separate sections: (1) adult, (2) elementary, (3) junior college, (4) secondary. 389 projects were conducted by the school districts and offices of county superintendents of schools during 1968-1969. Each…

Discussion of material in "Discovery Through Guidance Series, designed for classroom teacher with guidance point of view. (Author)

Outlines the background, rationale, methodology, and outcomes of developing local lifelong guidance strategies in four geographic areas. Analyzes the main components of the strategies developed and addresses a number of issues relating to the process of strategy development. Explores implications for parallel work in other localities. (RJM)

This monograph is designed to assist individual schools to plan for, organize, implement, and manage their own elementary school guidance programs. Those school districts supporting a centralized team planning approach to program development will also find the monograph useful, but may wish to adapt some of the suggestions to fit their own…

This article describes a seven step program for effective career planning, together with practical considerations, philosophy, and concepts that ideally merge both counseling and placement. (Author)

A new program to assist students and counselors in learning about themselves and career opportunities has been developed from a follow-up of 400,000 students who participated in Project TALENT. (Author)

This manual describes a guidance management system which utilizes techniques necessary to identify, plan, implement, control, and assess guidance program activities and services in relation to the school district's changing needs and guidance policy formulation. To be responsive to existing contraints and potentialities within the public school…

This booklet discusses the need for a developmental approach to the prevention of juvenile deliquency and crime in general. It presents an overview of the crime problem, mentions some common viewpoints concerning causal factors, and makes a case for the relationship between early life experiences and incidence of adult criminal behavior. The…

This report discusses the family guidance program established in Denmark as a preventive measure for child care. In developing such a program, Denmark developed a number of innovations concerned with preventive care programs for children. The program has changed from its beginnings in 1888, and since 1964 has offered voluntary family guidance to…

This report describes a systems approach toward an accountability program for a high school guidance department, the primary objective of which was to reduce the size of the "guidance universe" to manageable size, and to be responsible i.e., accountable. A commitment was developed to move toward a model of accountability, based not only upon what…

The students' needs and the parents' concern for their children's growth and development, as well as parents' desire for more effective communication skills and better relationships in their families, brought a realization that parent education, an important new dimension, could be added to the guidance program at Westwood Junior High. (Author)