This guide provides information and teaching strategies for adults to support young people who want to make choices and resolve conflicts using alternatives to violence. Although the material is primarily designed for teachers and counselors, the guide is designed to help assist all adults, especially parents. The premise of the book is that individual acts of violence are actually expressions of much broader patterns of social violence and that social violence is an expression of long-standing power imbalances between "have" and "have not" groups in society. To prevent violence or to intervene in it effectively, the guide asserts, people must turn their attention to rectifying the imbalances that motivate the violence. The guide is divided into six sections: (1) general issues for adults to consider in work with youth; (2) theory about age, gender, and race-related power imbalances which cause violence; (3) techniques for liberatory teaching; (4) a curriculum for teaching young people about violence and violence prevention; (5) suggestions for training other adults in workshops on violence; and (6) strategies and techniques for setting up and conducting long-term support for young people dealing with abuse. Each section includes exercises and role playing activities for work with youth across lines of age, gender, and race. (LH)