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Cook, Jana; McClure, Scott; Koutsenok, Igor; Lord, Scot – Journal of Teaching in the Addictions, 2008
In October 2006, the California Men's Colony (CMC) in San Luis Obispo, faced with staff recruitment and retention difficulties, took an innovative step to utilize long-term sentenced inmates as peer mentors and primary counselors to lead their prison-based therapeutic community (TC) program. The program was designed, developed, and implemented…
Descriptors: Educational Needs, Mentors, Substance Abuse, Program Improvement
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Rimashevskaia, N. M. – Russian Education and Society, 2004
From 1992 through 2001, Russia lost more than 7 million people as a result of natural population loss or, with the positive migration balance taken into account, 4.7 million. These statistics show that the size of Russia's population is diminishing steadily. This article reports the findings of a study examining the factors that account for the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Welfare, Population Trends, Infant Mortality