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Peer reviewedMaxwell, Sharron L.; And Others – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1976
In an attempt to meet the special challenge of reaching rural youth, the Montachusett Opportunity Council's Family Planning Program (MOC-FP) has been operating a demonstration project that provides sex education and family planning services to adolescents in the rural areas of central Massachusetts. This article explains the program. (Author)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Counseling, Family Planning, Health Services
Download full textStephens, Barbara – 1978
The primary purpose of this directory is to identify for the grant-seeker some of the major national, regional, and local foundations that fund programs benefitting rural people. Included is an overview of other sources of private sector assistance such as churches and businesses that should also be considered. Several aids are provided to…
Descriptors: Directories, Grants, Grantsmanship, Guides
BREATHITT, EDWARD T. – 1967
THE YOUTH OF RURAL AMERICA ARE NOT AFFORDED EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, ARE ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED, EXPERIENCE INADEQUATE MEDICAL SERVICES, AND FAIL IN GENERAL TO REALIZE THE ADVANTAGES OF THEIR CITY COUNTERPARTS. THESE CONDITIONS FACING RURAL YOUTH ARE NOT CONFINED TO ANY SINGLE AREA OF THE COUNTRY, BUT ARE WIDESPREAD ENOUGH THAT THEY…
Descriptors: Educationally Disadvantaged, Health Services, Housing Deficiencies, Low Income
Armstrong, Nancy – Illinois Rural Life Panel Summary Report, 1993
The Illinois Rural Life Panel, a sample of approximately 2,000 residents living in Illinois' 76 nonmetropolitan counties, is surveyed annually about various issues. The 1993 survey results are reported in four brief summaries. In the first summary, which discusses health care, panelists indicated dissatisfaction with the current health-care…
Descriptors: Community Services, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Health Services
Peer reviewedAzer, Samy A.; Simmons, David; Elliott, Susan L. – Australian Journal of Rural Health, 2001
A study examined the relationship between medical students' background and their attitudes toward being trained or working as doctors in rural areas. Surveys of 97 first-year medical students at an Australian university indicated that students from rural backgrounds were more willing than urban students to be trained and to work in rural areas.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Health Services, Higher Education, Mass Media Effects
Jacobsen, G. Michael, Ed. – 1982
The papers selected for this reader represent the broad range of "practice oriented" interests, problems, populations, and interventions found in both rural social work and at the Seventh National Institute. Section 1 contains four papers which deal with program development and community practice, i.e., planning social services in a…
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Child Welfare, Community Action, Community Education
Peer reviewedDorsey, L. C. – Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 1991
The problems of rural children are discussed. Rural children are threatened by many of the same social and health problems that urban children face, complicated by distance, which affects access to health care and other services. Recommendations are made to assure that rural children receive the services they need. (SLD)
Descriptors: Blacks, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Children
Burchinal, Lee G., Ed. – 1963
Presented are condensed versions of background papers for the National Conference on Problems of Rural Youth in a Changing Environment held in Stillwater, Oklahoma, on September 22-25, 1963. Twenty-seven papers are grouped under the following divisions: (1) rural community backgrounds; (2) rural education; (3) physical and mental health of rural…
Descriptors: Agriculture, American Indians, Blacks, Delinquency Prevention
