This booklet presents a rationale that links values, decision-making and education together in the context of drug abuse education. It explores the idea of building drug abuse education programs with prevention as the focus. It also provides detailed suggestions for how values clarification strategies can be used by teachers in classrooms to help…

Child welfare personnel repeatedly move a lesbian youth from one inappropriate placement to another, subjecting her to constant rejection and discrimination and depriving her of a permanent home or family; Detention facility staff place a gay youth in isolation "for his own protection," depriving him of education, recreation, companionship, or…