Status offenders are minors brought to the attention of courts because they are runaways, truants, or are considered ungovernable or incorrigible. This report assesses the costs and service impacts of deinstitutionalization of status offenders. The findings are based on case studies in 10 states. Included in this report are sections on the state…

This paper was written to assist counselors in their individual and group counseling with drug-abusing youth. The author offers some personal thoughts concerning youth and drugs. He then presents an overview of the varied and conflicting observations and opinions of people in general and students in particular in regard to the secondary school…

We have indeed achieved considerable "good" for many youth; but of course as with every other social reconstruction effort, more remains to be achieved. While it is a small minority, efforts must be made to reduce even the small percentage of serious deviates who may well emerge as adults in serious need of complex therapy. Each member of the new…

This action research project examined the culture of a low-income white youth population in San Pablo, California, and attempted to assist certain youth with employment problems. From May 1, 1969 through August 31, 1970 approximately 100 unemployed youths between the ages of 14 and 24 were located and offered various individual and group social…

This document describes the present activities of and recommends improvements for the Ohio Youth Commission, an organization designed to provide treatment and rehabilitative services for socially deviant youths. (LLR)

The extent to which black and white adolescents justify the use of political violence to gain desired ends, and the extent to which they express behavioral intentions to engage in such violence to achieve political objectives are examined and compared. (Author/AM)

Programs of diversion and deinstitutionalization are not nearly as revolutionary as experts in the area of juvenile justice would have us believe. They offer control rather than treatment, and have actually increased the length of time that the youth can expect to be detained. (Author)

Numerous problems in the American educational system are outlined. The lack of effective education for all young people, the failure of schools to educate, the diverse demands and expectations placed upon the schools, and the type of education which occurs outside the schools are among these problems. (GC)

Discusses youth work in India, the role of the youth worker, the importance of helping youth to bring about social change, the need for youth clubs to integrate and motivate young people as agents of social change, and the problems of youth training. (MF)

This survey of juvenile courts across the country indicates that only one of five courts have a parent group program and few use procedures reported in the growing literature relating to changing the behavior of agressive children. (Author)

Notes that while the street boy strategy does not emerge fully developed, the boys are deliberately trying to forge a new and hybrid identity for themselves, accepting those aspects of each culture that will serve to meet their needs as they see them, and rejecting those aspects of each that will not. (Author/AM)

Examines the influence of the live-in environment on the child care worker through a study of certain basic stress indicators (life space, conflict-triggering situations, support, need congruence, opportunity, environmental mutability, vigilance, regimentation and crisis). (BF)

Examined impact of a youth placement program for male and female status offenders. Investigated self-concept changes in 46 adolescents placed in a youth group home for 12 months. Results showed that both males and females showed improvement in total self-esteem as measured by the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale. Suggests that such placement had a…

Describes the Family Prevention Services projects operating in the largest service areas in Utah, which maintains (85 percent of) the most difficult-to-serve children and adolescents from troubled families in their homes, thus preventing out-of-home placements. A case study is presented. (Author/BB)

Provides an in-depth discussion of issue of gang violence and effects on schools. In past two decades street gangs have become a problem, not just in large urban centers, but also in smaller urban areas and suburbs. Outlines seven ways to work at preventing gang activities in schools. Urges school boards to play greater role in fighting gang…