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Goodnow, Michael – 1996
A primary goal of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is to identify and promote programs that enhance the field of juvenile justice. Since 1992, the Gould-Wysinger Awards, commemorating two OJJDP professionals, have recognized programs that advance the objectives of the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Abuse, Delinquency, Identification

Jones, Robin R.; Portz, John; Stein, Lana – Urban Affairs Review, 1997
Comparative analyses of civic support for public education in Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), Boston (Massachusetts), and St. Louis (Missouri) show how civic support develops or fails to develop, and highlights institution building and focus on education by the business sector as essential components of civic activation behalf of public education. (SLD)
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Comparative Analysis, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education
Rizzini, Irene; Lusk, Mark W. – Children and Youth Services Review, 1995
Presents an overview of the situation of street children and youth in urban Latin America. Findings from numerous studies throughout the region are synthesized. Suggests that economic factors underlie the marginalization of vast numbers of Latin American children. The result is the exclusion of many of the region's children from meaningful…
Descriptors: Child Labor, Child Welfare, Childrens Rights, Developing Nations

Tapia, Javier – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 1998
Reports on research conducted in poor Puerto Rican households in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) that shows the complex relationships between household members' survival strategies, residential mobility, home-school connections, and students' learning. Results from five families show that household stability is the strongest factor affecting students'…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Role, Family School Relationship
Devine, John – 1996
In an ethnographic reflection on 10 years experience working in the high schools of inner-city New York, issues of school safety, discipline, and violence are explored. The central proposition is that the mentality that relies on paramilitary security measures and technological devices, such as metal detectors, to achieve safe schools is only an…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Disadvantaged Youth, Discipline, Educational Technology
Nightingale, Demetra Smith, Ed.; Haveman, Robert H., Ed. – 1994
Contributions to this book are based on presentations at a conference hosted by The Urban Institute in April 1994 to consider the challenges of achieving self-sufficiency for the nation's poor. Achieving long-term self-sufficiency for society's members is a fundamental social goal, but the problems involved, particularly those of finding enough…
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Opportunities, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Job Development
Willie, Charles V., Ed.; And Others – 1995
This volume, successor to the 1973 volume "Racism and Mental Health," presents a range of perspectives on mental health, prejudice, and discrimination. Contributors are of multiracial, multiethnic, and gender-diverse backgrounds. They use their existential experiences to analyze pressing mental health and mental illness issues. Contributions…
Descriptors: Drug Therapy, Ethnic Groups, Homeless People, Mental Health
Barrett, Ronald Keith – 1992
A pattern of increased homicidal violence among adolescent youth in American inner cities has been documented and studied for some time. This elevated lethal violence has been observed to be a major cause of death in this age group and has been observed to be a particularly male phenomenon, especially for ethnic minorities. Both victims and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, At Risk Persons, Causal Models, Ethnic Groups
Institute for Children and Poverty, New York, NY. – 1998
Research on homeless children and families carried out by the Institute for Children and Poverty over the last 6 years is compiled in this document. The contents range from programmatic solutions and policy recommendations to simple "snapshots" of homeless families. Much of the research is based on the experiences of Homes for the…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Early Parenthood, Elementary Secondary Education, Homeless People
Duncan, Greg J., Ed.; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne, Ed. – 1997
The consequences and correlates of growing up poor as well as the mechanisms through which poverty influences children are explored. This book is organized with a primary focus on research findings and a secondary concern with policy implications. The chapters are: (1) "Poor Families, Poor Outcomes: The Well-Being of Children and Youth" (Jeanne…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Children, Disadvantaged Youth
Southworth, Michael; Southworth, Susan – 1990
The Oakland (California) Explorers is a program to help children learn about the city. The project is part of a long-term effort by the Junior Center for Art and Science to make Oakland a better place for children to be raised. Project goals are to create the following: (1) a living museum of Oakland that will include children and adolescents in…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Children, Community Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Schinke, Steven P.; And Others – 1991
This comparative study evaluates the effects of Boys and Girls Clubs and related SMART Moves drug prevention programs on children and adolescents living in public housing and on the quality of life in public housing. The study involves 15 public housing developments in a representative sample of American cities and focuses on alcohol and other…
Descriptors: Athletics, Delinquency, Delinquency Prevention, Drinking
Marland, Sidney P. – 1968
Racial integration and compensatory education must be used to solve the problems in the big cities. A little boy or a little girl who grows up feeling different from other people and is unable to have access to solutions that would lift him out of his excluded and isolated way of life has every reason to be sick, to be desperate, to be incomplete…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Problems, Educational Strategies
Facts You Can Use--Seeds of Help, 1997
The escalation of youth violence is one of the major public health concerns of the United States. Many factors today make juveniles more likely to commit, or to become victims of, violent acts. Drugs, the availability of guns, and the emergence of gang problems in all regions of the country are among the causes of youth violence. Prevention of…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Programs, Delinquency, Early Parenthood

Bean, Xylina – Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 1991
This paper discusses how the health care needs of underserved children, particularly urban children, can be met through an ecological model of health care. Ecoprimary care, infant mortality, and the experiences of King/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles (California), an example of maximization of resources, are described. (SLD)
Descriptors: Child Health, Childhood Needs, Children, Delivery Systems