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Ku, Richard; Blew, Carol H. – 1977
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…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Community Cooperation, Contingency Management, Counseling Services
Anderson, Patricia S.; And Others – 1979
This guide documents cost effective methods of providing community-based alternative court intervention services to youth. The service program was designed to assist adolescent status offenders and their families in resolving the underlying problems which bring the youths to the attention of the juvenile system. A Family Crisis Intervention Center…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Advocacy, Community Involvement, Counseling
Download full textGeorgetown Univ., Washington, DC. – 1976
Described is the program of the Georgetown Adolescent Intervention Team (Washington, D.C.), which provides interdisciplinary evaluations and diagnoses, and identifies appropriate alternative placements for developmentally disabled juvenile offenders (10-16 years old and older). The program is discussed in terms of a review of procedures for…
Descriptors: Agency Cooperation, Clinical Diagnosis, Delinquency, Developmental Disabilities
Emshoff, James G.; And Others – 1980
The Adolescent Diversion Project, an alternative to court processing for juvenile offenders, employs intervention strategies of behavioral contracting and advocacy. Youth (N=73) were assigned to one of three conditions: (1) the control group receiving usual court treatment; (2) the family condition involving a trained undergraduate volunteer who…
Descriptors: Behavior Change, Change Strategies, Child Advocacy, Delinquency
Chicago Univ., IL. Chapin Hall Center for Children. – 1999
This guide chronicles the ongoing work and writings of the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago, a policy research center dedicated to bringing sound information, rigorous analyses, innovative ideas, and an independent, multidisciplinary perspective to bear on policies and programs affecting children. This guide, organized…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adoption, Child Welfare, Children
Chicago Univ., IL. Chapin Hall Center for Children. – 2000
This guide chronicles the ongoing work and writings of the Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago, a policy research center dedicated to bringing sound information, rigorous analyses, innovative ideas, and an independent, multidisciplinary perspective to bear on policies and programs affecting children. This guide, organized…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adoption, Child Welfare, Children
