The site is enabling residents and police to exchange ideas about community policing. The Bethlehem Police Department is providing training in family group conferencing techniques that can be used when working with school resource personnel, school administrators, probation officers, guidance counselors and social workers. The federal grant is supporting training, equipment, Web site and E-mail development, needs assessments in each community and establishment of community task forces. The Web site demonstrated the enormous effect the Web can have on education and learning. WPSX-TV, Penn State's public television station, is a PBS member station.
Training ranges from computer instruction to process chemistry orientation.
The program is helping the company maintain competitiveness in a global market. A noncredit Tree Identification course was developed by a Penn State Cooperative Extension forester and delivered in Bradford County through the Northern Tier Continuing Education Office. The program evolved into a 2-credit graduate course on Pennsylvania Forest Environments for teachers. The course included forest field trips and a visit to a forest products industrial site, among other activities. It was delivered in summer 1997 to a group of about 15 teachers and will be offered again in summer 1998.