The document describes a program to enlarge, through inservice training workshops, the pool of individuals available to provide appropriate services for multiply handicapped students in various communities and at residential schools. Outlined are plans for providing training courses to collaborative service coordinators, non-education…

Over 50 persons with special experience and interest in nonprofessional careers attended the workshop to explore the basic issues raised by that experience and to point the way toward future program implications. Critical issues which emerged centered around how to develop training capability, the problems related to established institutional…

The Community Apprentice Program, developed by the Howard University Center for Youth and Community Studies, was an exploratory attempt, through combined rehabilitation, vocational education, and supervised work experience, to train disadvantaged youth as human service aides in child care, recreation, and social research. Seven boys and three…