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Interventions with Juvenile Offenders: Strategies To Prevent Acting Out Behavior.
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Moody, Edward E., Jr.; Lupton-Smith, Helen S. – Journal of Addictions & Offender Counseling, 1999
Reviews four programs (Moral Dilemma Discussion Groups; Just Communities; Positive Peer Culture; and EQUIP program) for their appropriateness when intervening with juvenile offenders in residential settings. When choosing among these interventions, counselors should questions whether the youth have the necessary skills needed for each…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delinquency, Juvenile Justice, Prevention
Positive Behavior Supports in Exclusionary Schools: A Practical Approach Based on What We Know
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Gagnon, Joseph C.; Rockwell, Sarah B.; Scott, Terrance M. – Focus on Exceptional Children, 2008
One approach to student behavior that may be particularly useful in exclusionary settings is school-wide positive behavior supports (PBS). Increasingly, evidence shows that PBS is an effective approach to student behavior in regular public schools (Sugai & Horner, 2005). While the data on behavioral systems in exclusionary schools are…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Behavior Problems, Student Behavior, Behavior Modification
A Model for a Deinstitutionalization Program for Youthful Offenders.
Ryan, T. A. – 1981
This model of a deinstitutionalization program begins with a definition of juvenile delinquency and historical antecedents of current juvenile justice approaches. The extent of juvenile delinquency is noted, and the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act is reviewed. The deinstitutionalization model is presented as a residential program…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delinquency, Delinquent Rehabilitation, Formative Evaluation
Cooperative Learning Can Work in Residential Care Settings.
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Ragan, Patricia E. – Teaching Exceptional Children, 1993
A modified cooperative learning methodology was implemented with 12 boys at a residential treatment center for oppositional adolescents. Despite their volatile behavior, limited self-control, deficient prosocial skills, and lack of group experience, they responded positively to the experience. The model is felt to effectively enhance cooperation,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Antisocial Behavior, Behavior Change, Behavior Disorders
The Miami-Dade Juvenile Assessment Center National Demonstration Project
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Walters, Wansley; Dembo, Richard; Beaulaurier, Richard; Cocozza, Joseph; De La Rosa, Mario; Poythress, Norman; Skowyra, Kathy; Veysey, Bonita M. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2005
The Miami-Dade Juvenile Assessment Center National Demonstration Project (NDP) is serving as a national model for the transformation of front end services in the juvenile justice system in a unique sociocultural setting.We discuss the background and vision of the NDP, its implementation and accomplishments in six major program areas: (1)…
Descriptors: Intervention, Demonstration Programs, Program Effectiveness, Juvenile Justice
Institutionalized Facilities Program, 1983-84. E.C.I.A. Chapter 1, Part B. Final Evaluation Report.
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New York City Board of Education, Brooklyn, NY. Office of Educational Evaluation. – 1985
In 1983-84, the Education Consolidation Improvement Act (E.C.I.A.), Chapter 1, Part B Institutionalized Facilities Program was sponsored jointly by the Division of Special Education and, for the first time, the Division of the High Schools of the New York City Public Schools. The program provided supplementary career education and daily living…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Education, Daily Living Skills, Delinquency