A description of an effective and innovative program designed to help alienated youth which is currently in use in the Newton Public Schools, Newton, Massachusetts. (JC)

This directory provides a state-by-state listing of 212 runaway programs which exist, for the most part, outside the juvenile justice system and serve primarily the self-referred runaway and "throwaway" youth. The directory is designed to aid those persons seeking appropriate referrals for youth in need of crisis shelter as well as those…

The Youth Section of the Dallas Police Department has instituted an innovative police diversion project entitled the Youth Services Program as an operational unit of the police department. Fourteen civilian counselors supervised by a police lieutenant function as a diversion unit for arrested juveniles between the ages of 10 and 16. Juveniles that…

This paper describes a program of cooperative involvement of the community, a university, and a federal agency in the development and operation of a county-wide youth services system. It provides a model for maximum utilization of resources to benefit children, youth, and their families. (Author)

This monograph presents 36 juvenile delinquency prevention program models, which describe a range of approaches for preventing delinquency before young people become involved with the law. The strategies of each program model are delineated as well as the rationale, objectives, target population, implementation requirements and implementing…

A cooperative community-school district counseling program to reduce truancy and juvenile delinquency in Inglewood, California is described. Material, in the form of official memos, is divided into four sections. Section 1 describes project funding and target students. Section 2 contains statistics related to the numbers of students served, put on…

The Urbana-Champaign Adolescent Diversion Project (ADP) involves children, parents, professors, graduate and under-graduate students, policemen, teachers, and community social service workers in a cooperative effort to divert youngsters in legal jeopardy from the juvenile justice system. Its three goals are: (1) to provide juveniles with an…

A description and evaluation of the Baltimore Youth Advocate Project (YAP) is provided in this report. This project attempted to find out whether, to what extent, and with what results certain children could actually be diverted from the juvenile justice system. The project provided coaching and counseling services to pre-delinquent and…

A non-profit counseling and referral center, the Center was established in 1972 to alleviate delinquency problems in Los Lunas (New Mexico), with special reference to Chicanos. The Center used specific direct youth services to identify: barriers to services for Chicanos in Los Lunas and to provide referral services to overcome those barriers;…