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Martha R. Burt, Gary Resnick, and Emily R. Novick
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LIST PRICE: $24.95
MEMBER/AFFILIATE PRICE: $19.95
314 pages
ITEM #: 431703A
ISBN: 1-55798-466-2
ISBN 13: 978-1-55798-466-1
PUBLICATION DATE: January 1998
EDITION: Softcover
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Today's adolescents are at ever-increasing risk for behavioral problems such as drug abuse, teenage parenthood, and violence. But today's youth intervention programs are still the traditional fragmented, territorial systems of the past. How can these community and school-based services be updated and improved?
The authors of Building Supportive Communities for At-Risk Adolescents stress prevention, protection, and early detection and recommend an integrated network to address the comprehensive needs of today's youth. They profile nine of the nation's premier youth-serving programs, which provide a mix of educational, counseling, recreational, vocational, and leadership activities. Key chapters present critical, practical information about funding, implementing, and evaluating similar programs.
Book Review
The authors, through a thorough discussion of integrated services and adolescent at-risk populations with specific examples from nine different programs, present a framework for working with adolescents…The authors provide timely information and urge changes in the way that practitioners, social service agencies, and policy makers look at program development. It is an important reference point for those social service agencies working in communities and seeking to address all the needs of youth and families.
—Lainey Collins, MSW, Center for Family Life, Brooklyn, NY; Social Work With Groups
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