Draft Proposal
11/27/72
College of Community Studies
Northwestern University

YOUTH SERVICES OUTPOST

San Francisco, California

WHAT:      An opportunity to study directly youth services in educational, correctional, drug rehabilitational, recreational or other social agencies. The emphasis will be upon studying and applying interpersonal strategies for facilitating human development.

FOR WHOM: College of Community Studies students (and other appropriately prepared students) planning careers in the human services professions.

WHEN: Spring Quarter 1973 (10-15 students)

Summer Session 1973: 10 weeks from June 25 to August 31 (10-15 students)

CREDIT: 4 Units

Ed. C-22 Psychological Applications for Education (1)

Ed. C-21 Innovations in Instruction (1)

Ed. C-67 Internship in Education (1-2)

Ed. or Soc. C-75 The Dynamics of Planned Change (1)

COST: Spring Quarter Tuition $1,000 plus transportation, room and board

Summer Session Tuition $1,000 plus transportation, room and board

PROGRAM: Three seminars each week

Monday 7-9PM    Psychological Applications for Education

Wednesday 1-4PM Innovations in Instruction

Monday 4-6pM Internship in Education

These three seminars will focus upon the development, testing and evaluation of alternative approaches to promoting human development in youth services agencies and institutions. The issues developed in these three seminars will be coordinated and integrated. The emphasis will be upon helping students develop the ability to communicate effectively with clients.

Paralleling these three seminars students will work approximately 20 hours per week in a youth services agency – a public, private, or free school, a corrections institution, a drug rehabilitation center, a recreation program, etc.

In addition to participating in seminar discussions and completing common reading, each student will submit three reports:

1. A critical analysis of a theoretical perspective on the facilitation of human development.

2. An assessment of a strategy for facilitating human development.

3. A systematic evaluation of the student’s field study experiences.

STAFF: David C. Epperson
Master, College of Community Studies and
Professor of Education and Urban Affairs

Barbara A.Hursh
Associate Master, College of Community Studies and
Professor of Education and Urban Affairs

Stuart Pivnick
Graduate Fellow, Center for Urban Affairs and
College of Community Studies

Jerry Gaff
Visiting Professor of Psychology
Sonoma State College

Isadore Pivnick
Assistant Superintendent
San Francisco City Schools

WHERE: Seminars will be held in San Francisco Board of Education Facilities.

Each student will find his own living accommodations near the youth service agency in which he is working.