14 PUBLIC INFORMATION HD 7256 SERVICE IN 04A45 REHABILITATION FIFTH INSTITUTE ON REHABILITATION SERVICES seves numb 69-4 nor 69-4 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE US Rehabilitation Services Administration U.S.S.D. a training guide DISCRIMINATION PROHIBITED--Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 states: "No person in the United States shall, on the grounds of race, color or national origin, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subject to discrimination under any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance." Therefore, any program or activity supported by grants from the rehabilitation Services Administration, like every program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance from the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, must be operated in compliance with this law. PUBLIC INFORMATION SERVICE IN VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION FRANKLIN E. WILLIAMS, CHAIRMAN WILFRED HABER, UNIVERSITY COORDINATOR FIFTH INSTITUTE ON REHABILITATION SERVICES MAY 22-24, 1967 MADISON, WISCONSIN REHABILITATION SERVICE SERIES NUMBER 69-4 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE Los Rehabilitation Services Administration Washington, D. C. 20201 40001 The materials in this publication do not necessarily represent the official views of the Rehabilitation Services Administration nor of the State vocational rehabilitation agencies. They do, however, reflect serious effort by able persons to keep practices in the State-Federal program of rehabilitation current with developments in the field. ii During early and developmental years, a reasonable degree of anonymity may have seemed appropriate for the vocational rehabilitation program. Innovations had to be tested and a process developed before commitments could be made to other than highly selected publics. The pressures of World War II and the passage of the 1954 Amendments brought the program and its processes to a degree of maturity that make it a most effective social action force. Now the story must be told effectively to all. It is most fitting that a Study Committee of the fifth Institute on Rehabilitation Services undertook to devise and encourage refined approaches to public information services in vocational rehabilitation. Increasing numbers of requests from the field led the Planning Committee to select this topic for study at this Institute. The efforts of a very active Study Group culminated in a very profitable study session at Madison, Wisconsin in May 1967. It This publication is a sequel to that study session. contains many of the principal papers that were presented and discussed there. In this form it should provide valuable source material for those engaged in public information service in rehabilitation agencies and those involved in training staff members to give appropriate attention to this aspect of their activities. Joseph Hunt Commissioner iii |