The Center for Independent Living (CIL) is a comprehensive residential program serving the elderly blind in New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania by providing opportunities for its students to adapt and develop self-help skills in daily living and in more difficult physical and mental tasks. (Author)

This study of incarcerated children in New York State includes the following findings, conclusions, and recommendations: (1) too many youth are unnecessarily sent to secure detention; (2) too many stay too long, and while there receive too little in the way of programming or diagnostic assessment which could contribute to appropriate family court…

The Center for Independent Living of Greater Bridgeport and its operating agencies conducted a survey of 32 people, the majority of whom were developmentally disabled and residents of institutional or community settings, in both rural and urban areas. The aim of the survey was to determine the perceived needs and levels of independence experienced…

This study attempted to determine if there was a change in job attitude among employees of a state institution for the developmentally disabled after a move to new, superior facilities. An attitude scale was constructed and administered in December 1982, prior to the move. A second testing occurred two months later, after Experimental Group I had…

The program of Fircroft College, a one-year residential course in liberal education for adults who are already experienced in work and community leadership, is described. About one-quarter of the 50 students are foreign. Fircroft neither requires nor grants formal academic qualifications; it cultivates equally intellectual thought and experience…

The book is a collection of 10 essays written by the author on the subject of alternative mental health services for youth and adolescents. Aspects covered include alternative services and the mental health professional, runaways and runaway centers, long-term residences, and the present and future of alternative services. Titles presented include…

MENTAL RETARDATION IS DEFINED AS A MENTAL DEFECT, NOT A DISEASE. LEVELS OF SEVERITY IN MENTAL RETARDATION ARE CAUSED BY AN INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HEREDITY AND ENVIRONMENT. ONE OF THE MAJOR PROBLEMS CONCERNS THE LONGER LIFE EXPECTANCY OF THE RETARDATE DUE TO IMPROVEMENTS IN MODERN MEDICINE. THIS IS CREATING A SITUATION WHERE RESIDENTIAL…

The project was a residential youth center designed to address the needs of hard-core, high risk, girls between the ages of 14 and 18, with a history of poverty, unemployability, and school failure. The report describes the history and goals of the project, the nature of the population under study, the use of volunteers and nonprofessionals in…

This manual is designed to provide a review of the Residential Youth Center (RYC) program. In 1968, the Department of Labor funded the Training and Research Institute for Residential Youth Centers, Inc. (TRI-RYC) which attempts to improve the quality of life in the urban community. Such centers use a model that includes the following components:…

Sometimes called "halfway houses," the residential centers provide correctional services needed in the transition of selected offenders from prison terms to productive roles in society. Their task includes building solid ties between the offender and the community, integrating him into community life, restoring family ties, and obtaining…

Reports effects of institutional regimes on levels of dependency among residents of public homes for the elderly in England. Differences in management practices and caring routines did not affect the creation or reduction of dependency among residents. Questions the rationale that informs some current notions of good practice in residential work.…

Reviews recent research showing that child and parent, or caregiver and care receiver in nonfamilial, group settings, need each other reciprocally and need to find mutual fit. Focuses on stress laid on importance of dependence support, attachment behavior, and mutuality of caregiver and care receiver. Discusses effect of day care and significance…

Interviewed 990 urban elderly Canadians to examine factors influencing the desire for different housing. Results showed that housing conditions, living with children, and sickness influenced the wishes of the elderly to leave home, while functional impairment was not related. (JAC)

This report includes information derived from a survey of 24 states on out of state placement of students with disabilities. Survey questions address: (1) whether local education agencies (LEAs) are notified by agencies outside of education when an out of state placement for purposes other than education is immanent; (2) whether LEAs are given…

Noting the growing global consensus on the need to promote family-based alternatives to institutional care for children and adolescents, this report examines efforts to prevent the institutionalization of children in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Italy, and Spain, focusing on both public and private initiatives, as well as local and national…