Some observations and comments on the role that vocational education can play in helping to resolve the youth unemployment problem in the United States. (BM)

This book presents lessons learned after 4 years of Promising and Effective Practices Network (PEPNet), a project of the National Youth Employment Coalition that identifies and promotes criteria of effective practice in youth employment and development. The book, which provides a cumulative summary of all PEPNet programs, is a resource that brings…

"The Eye," a newspaper produced by Youth Communication/Delaware Center, features stories about issues and problems that face Delaware teenagers which are researched, written, and edited by adolescents. The paper, first published in 1978, now has a monthly circulation exceeding 23,000 in 40 schools throughout the state. (Author/GC)

Argues for the importance of providing adolescents with opportunities to care about and contribute to their communities. Briefly describes several programs that have been based on youth participation. (IRT)

This article considers ways for schools and community-based youth organizations to build on each other's strengths, respond explicitly to youthful realities, and incorporate the attributes of learning environments found most effective. Over the past decade, CBOs have been creating and maintaining institutions that are highly educational and keenly…

Profiles programs of two youth centers that are successfully bridging cultural differences through the development of cultural competence. Both centers acknowledge that actualizing cross-cultural competency means providing a way for their ethnic groups to interact with the larger population without losing their cultural heritage. Programs include…

This paper reports on an initiative that took the strategy of youth consultation in programme planning one step further by putting a research project's design, data collection, analysis and presentation of findings in the hands of young women and men who have experienced education and discontinuity of education in a long-term refugee camp. The…

This report summarizes the efforts and successes of the Youth as Resources (YAR) initiative, a program that offers youth empowerment and leadership in community service. It utilizes all youth in an effort to address any social or community issue deemed important to a local area and provides opportunities for a wide range of agencies to host or to…

The KIDS Consortium is a private, non-profit organization that seeks to promote, facilitate, and institutionalize the involvement of children and youth in their communities in Maine. Kids as Planners, the central program of the KIDS Consortium, gives students the opportunity to become apprentice citizens by working with adult citizens in hands-on…

The continuum of service models presented here is a result of analyzing the various ways in which schools participating in cooperative endeavors relate their student-community involvement activities to the total academic curriculum. (Editor/RK)

The purpose of the report is to formulate a number of guidelines for policies designed to complement the Regional Plan of Action, adopted in 1983, which serves as the basis for a long-term strategy whose approach focusses on the connection between youth-related activities and the overall regional development picture. The Plan continues to be valid…

Author critically questioned the Coleman Report and asked whether we should not be asking what responsibilities young people owe to society instead of what society owes to its young. (Editor/RK)

In conjunction with the regular 1970 summer session, Santa Barbara City College (SBCC) sponsored a developmental program for disadvantaged minority students. Fifty-two students participated, 34 financially supported by the Neighborhood Youth Corps, and 18 others with similar backgrounds and characteristics. The minority students were enrolled in…

In an effort to aid freshmen whose academic backgrounds were weaker than those of other freshmen, the College of the Arts and Sciences, University of Missouri, Kansas City, inaugurated a program called "The Transitional Year." This program was planned to minimize the difficulties encountered by freshmen during the transition from high school to…

Juvenile delinquency was identified as the major problem affecting youth on Indian reservations. Causes for delinquency which were discussed included culture conflict, expectation of failure, unemployment, failure of homes and parents, discrimination, inadequate education, off-reservation schools, and alcoholism. Needs identified by tribal leaders…