This document explains the West Virginia system of continuing education, describes the role of West Virginia in the Four State Project for staff development, and provides a list of resource documents available in the West Virginia Department of Education. In the first section an abstract of the program is presented along with a discussion of the chronological development of the program and its current status. In the second section, the contributions of West Virginia to the Four State Project are discussed and a description is given of the West Virginia Program as it fits into the project framework. Resources and the agencies responsible for them are listed in the third section. A design for program implementation is appended. (JD)