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Download full textChi, Bernadette; Jastrzab, JoAnn; Melchior, Alan – Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE), University of Maryland, 2006
Over the past decade, public attention on the importance of the civic development and education of youth has grown. To address these concerns, the East Bay Conservation Corps (EBCC) Charter School opened in 1996 with the explicit mission to prepare and engage students grades K through 12 as caring citizens who are capable and motivated to fully…
Descriptors: Student Surveys, Identification, Elementary School Students, Thinking Skills
Virginia State Dept. of Education, Richmond. – 1993
This second interim report presents evaluation results from Project Youth Experiencing Success (YES) and documents a decrease in the Virginia statewide event-dropout rate in grades 7 through 12 from 4.8 percent during the 1988-89 school year to 3.3 percent during the 1991-92 year. Event-dropout rates measure the proportion of students who drop out…
Descriptors: Ability, At Risk Persons, Case Studies, College School Cooperation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families. – 1990
This Congressional report found that today's social and economic conditions harm large numbers of American families in ways that the child welfare, mental health, and juvenile justice systems were not created and are ill-prepared to address. The following findings are reported: (1) the number of children placed outside of their homes during the…
Descriptors: Child Custody, Child Neglect, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs
Berliner, BethAnn – 2001
This sourcebook assembles the results of research on educating homeless students and offers classroom strategies for people working with homeless students, providing training tools to strengthen programs and practices in schools and shelters. Chapter 1, "Increasing Awareness about Students Experiencing Homelessness," defines homelessness,…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Attendance, Class Activities, Consciousness Raising
Croddy, Marshall; Hayes, Bill – 1994
This teacher's guide outlines effective strategies for using "Criminal Justice in America." This comprehensive textbook on criminal justice may serve either as the foundation for a high school law-related education course or as a supplemental text for civics, government or contemporary-issues courses. Designed to foster critical thinking…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Correctional Institutions, Crime, Crime Prevention
Administration for Children, Youth, and Families (DHHS), Washington, DC. Office of Research and Evaluation. – 2001
To learn what happens to children and families who come into contact with the child welfare system, the Children's Bureau of the Administration on Children, Youth and Families has undertaken the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW). As part of this longitudinal study of the characteristics, needs, experiences, and outcomes…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agencies, Agency Cooperation, Child Welfare
Fine, Melinda – 2000
This report grew out of an effort by the Learning In Deed initiative of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation to strengthen diversity in K-12 service learning by increasing diversity among students, practitioners, and advocates and ensuring that conceptions underlying service opportunities foster diversity priorities. The report presents approaches and…
Descriptors: Consciousness Raising, Cultural Pluralism, Diversity (Student), Elementary Secondary Education
Marquoit, James W. – 1994
This practicum was designed to assist parents of juveniles who had been placed in residential care for sexual offenses. Although there was a consensus in the field that inclusion of the family in treatment was essential, few family treatment models were available. No family treatment models were found specific to working with families that had…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Family Programs, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Education
Brooks, Pauline E.; Herman, Joan L. – 1991
An after-school program for elementary students, LA's BEST, in Los Angeles (California) that was planned and implemented by local civic, education, and community leaders was evaluated in 1990-91. The program intends to provide a safe environment that fosters students' academic, physical, social, and emotional growth; and promotes future business,…
Descriptors: After School Education, After School Programs, Compensatory Education, Elementary Education
Russell, Keith C.; Hendee, John C. – 2000
Outdoor behavioral healthcare (OBH) is an emerging mental health intervention/treatment to help adolescents overcome emotional, psychological, and addiction problems. Currently, over 100 OBH programs in the United States use elements of wilderness therapy to address adolescents' problem behaviors and foster responsibility and personal growth.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Problems, Experiential Learning, Group Counseling
Fanshel, David; And Others – 1992
This book reports on a study of the urban poor in New York City focusing on the effectiveness of a model of service for this population. The project studied 160 families who were clients of the Lower East Side Family Union, an agency that aims to prevent foster care placement and to help clients mobilize their own coping capacities and to make…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Blacks, Chinese Americans, Client Characteristics (Human Services)
Marquoit, James W. – 1995
A staff needs assessment found an overwhelming number of staff (n=55) felt the need for additional training in working with juvenile sexual offenders in their care. This practicum was designed to assist them in meeting the needs of children with sexual victimization and/or sexual offense issues in an effective and appropriate manner. Training…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Delinquency, Delinquent Rehabilitation, Foster Care
