Guests participate from their homes or offices, making it convenient to engage competent resource people. The widespread use of video-cassette players allows counselors to demonstrate skills and to stimulate discussion of sensitive issues using video. Video cassettes have been produced to give parents ideas for helping their children explore career options, to encourage young women and teen-aged mothers, to help career drifters examine their lives and their feelings, and to teach peer and lay counselors to aid others. Print materials are also integrated into programs. Workbooks explain career development issues and strategies and provide clients with a record of their experiences.
Supplementary materials give information on the local labor market.
Counselor handbooks offer detailed suggestions for delivering the programs. By adding their own supplementary materials, counselors can adapt the programs to any locality. Possible partners include schools, community colleges, co-operatives, development associations, business organizations, farm associations, unions, rural women's associations, youth groups, and native organizations. Variations among rural communities demand that programs remain flexible and adaptable. Within a general framework, local considerations may require career counselors to add, drop, or modify program content.