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A City Year. On the Streets and in the Neighborhoods with Twelve Young Community Service Volunteers.
Goldsmith, Suzanne – 1993
City Year is a community-service program based in Boston (Massachusetts) that has frequently been praised as a model for other service programs. In City Year, young people of all races and from differing backgrounds work together for 9 months on public service programs ranging from physical labor to tutoring. Volunteers receive a small stipend and…
Descriptors: Community Programs, Community Services, Disadvantaged Youth, Group Dynamics
Davis, Robert C.; Lurigio, Arthur J. – 1996
What is being done at a local level, in the neighborhood, to prevent and discourage small-time drug dealers is discussed. Partnerships of law enforcement and grassroots citizens' groups are working in many places to reduce the availability and impact of drugs in their communities. The book opens with a discussion of drug use and the urban…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Community Programs, Cooperative Programs, Drug Abuse
