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McDaniel, Lynda – Appalachia, 2000
In Hale County, Alabama, a strong spirit of community collaboration led to the development of a family resource center that provides preschool education, a drug prevention program, center-based and mobile health services, general equivalency diploma (GED) classes, outreach services, and a youth leadership program in which outstanding high school…
Descriptors: Community Action, Community Centers, Community Services, High School Students
Download full textPINNOCK, THEODORE J. – 1967
INFORMAL EDUCATION PRIMARILY INCLUDES EDUCATION FOR EVERYDAY EFFECTIVE LIVING AND DOES NOT NECESSARILY HAVE TO INCLUDE COURSES FOR CREDIT AT THE HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE LEVELS. MILLIONS OF POVERTY STRICKEN PEOPLE CAN BENEFIT FROM THE TYPE OF INFORMAL EDUCATION PROVIDED THROUGH THE OFFICE OF ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY (OEO) IN SUCH PROGRAMS AS--(1) THE…
Descriptors: Community Action, Educational Opportunities, Educational Programs, Employment
Stack, Carol – 1996
This book relates the story of urban Black Americans choosing to return "home" to the rural South. The book is based on research in rural areas in North and South Carolina, considered the top nonmetropolitan areas for Black Americans moving south. By 1975, the U.S. Census Bureau released the first numbers suggesting that the exodus of…
Descriptors: Black Family, Blacks, Children, Community Action
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. – 1998
A House subcommittee hearing held in DeKalb, Illinois, received testimony on drug abuse problems among young people in small towns and rural areas. Personal experiences of drugs and their effects on young people were described in statements from the mother of a victim of drug-related violence, a former drug dealer, a former drug user and gang…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Change Strategies, College Students, Community Action
Wurschmidt, Todd N.; Phillips, G. Howard – 1979
To aid communities with similar concerns, this bulletin shares the proceedings of a workshop which focused on local issues surrounding rural crime and its prevention. Eight members of the Fairfield County (Ohio) Resource Development Committee assessed the need for and support of a workshop, invited speakers, scheduled a meeting place, printed an…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Citizen Participation, Community Action, Correctional Rehabilitation
Vissing, Yvonne M. – 1996
Homelessness in small towns and rural areas is on the rise, and a substantial portion of the rural homeless consists of families with children. This book draws on interviews and case studies of over 300 homeless children and their families, primarily in New Hampshire, and on supporting statistics to provide individual and sociological perspectives…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Children, Community Action, Demography
