Classified employees comprise thirty two percent of the educational workforce in school districts in the state of California. Acknowledging these employees as a viable and untapped resource within the educational system will enrich job satisfaction for these employees and benefit the operations in school sites. As acknowledged and valued…

Surveyed were 173 attendants in residential institutions for mentally retarded persons to determine their ability to plan an attendant-training program. (Author/CL)

Racism still abounds on the college campus. Thomas and Yates have implemented two paraprofessional programs in an attempt to alleviate this problem. Their work speaks to all persons involved in human service delivery systems. (Author)

In the first of the two papers in this monograph, the author describes the concepts of career ladders and career lattices for paraprofessionals in education and the ways in which these concepts have been implemented in the past few years. Various aspects of implementation are examined, including functions performed, requirements for advancement,…

What's happening in training programs on campus? And where do the graduates go? True and Young's pioneer work in the Center for Human Services Research provides many of the answers. (Author)

Volunteerism has a poor reputation these days, because many human service programs have "used" volunteers and given them nothing in return. Discusses a different approach, one in which both service recipients and volunteers gain. (Author)

With budgets limiting counseling staffs and an increased need to retain students, a more effective method of providing services is needed. The objective is to bring paraprofessionals to the point where they can recruit, screen, select, evaluate, promote, train, supervise, and administer their own programs. (Author/PC)

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…

This article provides information on how program directors can apply for Comprehensive Employment Training Act (CETA) funds for meeting personnel expenses. (CM)

This paper considers differential patterns of program utilization and the overall potential of the helping model for bringing needed services to otherwise unreached, maladapting school children. (Author)

Paraprofessionals don't arrive on the job equipped with all the knowledge and skills needed for effective service. Danish and Brock discuss four systematic methods that have proven successful in the training of paraprofessionals, and give readers some guidelines for choosing methods that are most appropriate for their own programs. (Author)

Reported in five tables, with interpretations, were results of a survey in Alaska to ascertain special education (SE) priorities for program planning. Of 921 survey forms sent by the State Department of Education to all SE teachers and administrators, district administrators, and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) teachers and aides, and to 200…

SPECIFIC PROCESSES FOR UTILIZING NONPROFESSIONAL EMPLOYEES IN HUMAN SERVICES ARE PRESENTED. THE BACKGROUND, CURRENT STATUS, AND PROBLEMS ARE DISCUSSED. THE ELEMENTS CONSIDERED ARE RECRUITMENT, SCREENING AND SELECTION, TRAINING, PLACEMENT, SUPERVISION, UPGRADING, AND EVALUATION. EXAMPLES OF NONPROFESSIONAL POSITIONS INCLUDE THE CASE AIDE IN SOCIAL…

In order to provide an historical perspective on the development of Consumerama (a 4-H program initiated in 1969 by the Pennsylvania Cooperative Extension Service), a 34-item questionnaire was developed and distributed to persons having prime responsibility for 4-H Consumerama activities in each of Pennsylvania's 67 counties. After securing a 100…