The 1979 Displaced Homemakers Conference focused on developing awareness of services available from various Illinois agencies to displaced homemakers, generating the spirit and means for cooperative relationships among agencies serving them, and offering prototypes of how women's centers are attempting to coordinate the various services of state and community agencies. Proceedings include texts of three general session speeches: "Strategies for Generating Interagency Cooperation," by Jan McReynolds, "Displaced Homemaker Programs: A National Perspective," by Eliza Carney, and "Future Directions of Displaced Homemaker Programs," by Margaret Cowden. Speeches given in group sessions are by the (1) Chief, Bureau of Title XX Administration, Illinois Department of Public Aid; (2) Supervisor, Field Services, Children and Family Services; (3) Program Coordinator, Consumer and Homemaker Education Program; (4) Chief, Division of Planning and Methods, State Health Planning and Development Agency; (5) Manager, Adult Education Programs, Department of Adult, Vocational and Technical Education, Illinois Office of Education; (6) Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) Interagency Coordinator, Bureau of Social Services; (7) Manager, Job Service Programs, Department of Labor, Job Service. A panel on displaced homemaker center activities is also provided. Appended is a report of the National Advisory Council on Women's Educational Programs, "Profile of the Displaced Homemaker and Her Education Needs." (YLB)