This article explores the extent to which and how non-formal education (NFE) contributes to the development of a more diversified basic education system and thus to the achievement of EFA. It outlines the current nature of NFE, the frameworks provided by the EFA movement, and the evolution of reflection, policies and practices in NFE in relation…

Many concerned individuals and community-based organizations want to reduce violence and prevent injuries and deaths from violence among youths in their community. This manual is designed to help. It includes a menu of specific activities for communities to undertake plus a framework for putting those activities effectively into place. The manual…

This document is one of eight in a series of guides designed to help teach and counsel troubled youth. This document presents 20 lessons on the social skills necessary to live independently. It includes four lessons designed to help students accurately evaluate their readiness for independent living. Other lessons teach the basic steps for…

This document presents witness testimonies and prepared statements from the Senate hearing on youth violence, strategies for its prevention, and the appropriate role of the federal government. The hearing stresses the need for a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach for youth violence prevention strategies and more coordination by the federal…

This document reports on the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Amendments of 1992. The texts of the following amendments and provisions are presented: Title I-Amendments to the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974; Title II-Amendments to the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act; Title III-Amendment to the Missing Children's…

Testimony given at a hearing on the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act which is scheduled to expire in September 1992 is presented in this document. An opening statement by Representative Matthew G. Martinez, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the Committee on Education and Labor, discusses the vulnerability of youth.…

This volume presents three papers commissioned by the National Governors' Association on children and violence. "Risk Factors for Youth Violence" (Terence P. Thornberry) discusses findings from longitudinal studies conducted over the last decade about children and violent behavior. Nine significant risk factors for violent behavior are identified:…

This document presents an overview of the issues involved in youth suicide which were considered by the Secretary's Task Force on Youth Suicide assembled by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The findings of the task force are presented. The task force concluded that: (1) state of knowledge about youth suicide is much less developed than…

Paul Goodman was a difficult man to evaluate, says the author, in an attempt to understand him and his contributions to our social growth. He briefly examined one facet, "The Cult of Youth," on which Goodman had much to say, and suggested a Goodman methodology. (Author/RK)

The catalog of agents that have been used to produce subjective changes is impressive, and each generation not only adds a few new substances but seems impelled to re-evaluate the old. Presented at Western Pharmacology Society, Honolulu, January 27-February 1, 1975. (Author)

This report describes the activities of the Administration for Children, Youth and Families in the Department of Health and Human Services, and the status and accomplishments of runaway and homeless youth centers funded during fiscal year 1984 under the Runaway and Homeless Youth Act. The report also examines the status, operations, and…

In this article, the author criticizes a youth policy discussion presented by Edward Wynne in a previous edition of this journal. Wynne's response to this criticism is also included in the article. (HMD)

This paper is devoted to a selected review of literature on drug abuse and dependence among children and adolescents. It is divided into seven sections, each giving information on studies, both nationally and internationally, on a particular drug. These are: nicotine, alcohol, organic solvents (sniffing of substances such as plastic cement, laquer…

In seminar dialogues, the relationship of youth to the world of work, values related to work, the economic realities, definitions of work, and planning for youth and work were discussed among faculty and students of the University of Minnesota and several members of the general citizenry of the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. It was concluded that the…