It is an underlying principle of Australian Education Review (AER) 54 that active efforts should be made to cultivate the latent bilingual potential within Australia's wider population and that this should be linked to major improvements in the quality of language teaching in schools. A combined approach of this kind will require investment in…

Presents recent estimates on adolescents' risk status along with a description of the characteristics of young people who typically exhibit high-risk behaviors. Reviews common components of successful interventions and proposes a comprehensive approach to program planning that combines school-based reform with community agency efforts. (GR)