Fulfilling the promise of children's services : why primary prevention efforts fail and how they can succeed / David G. Blumenkrantz
- Bib ID:
- 687312
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Blumenkrantz, David G., 1952-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents
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- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, c1992
- xxii, 180 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 1555424503
- Series:
- Jossey-Bass social and behavioral science series.
- Summary:
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In Fulfilling the Promise of Children's Services, David Blumenkrantz shares the expertise he has gained helping communities across the county to implement his successful primary prevention strategy, the Rite of Passage Experience. Drawing on nearly twenty years of experience in human services, the author reveals why youth service groups have largely been unable to meet their objectives - and he examines what these groups must do to implement and sustain effective prevention efforts.
Offering numerous examples drawn from actual practice, Blumenkrantz reveals the essential factors in a comprehensive primary prevention strategy - for example, fostering collaboration between school, community, and families; having a committed core group responsible for implementation; and obtaining the financial commitment of schools and the community. Stressing the need for communities to develop long-term prevention strategies, he examines how quick-fix programs - such as the "just say no" campaign - do little to alleviate problems and can actually hinder proven prevention efforts.
- Full contents:
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- Foreword / Seymour B. Sarason
- Pt. 1. Understanding Children's Services. 1. Promise of Service, Practice of Failure. 2. The Youth Service Bureau: A Model of Confusion. 3. Benefits and Challenges of Primary Prevention
- Pt. 2. A Comprehensive Intervention. 4. The Process of Prevention. 5. Applying an Ounce of Prevention. 6. The Rite of Passage Experience. 7. The Culminating Challenge. 8. Transitions to Adulthood. 9. Key Ingredients for Successful Intervention. 10. Primary Prevention: Art or Science?
- Pt. 3. Primary Prevention Training in Communities. 11. A Model Intervention. 12. The Misevaluation of Communities. 13. Managing the Unpredictable. 14. When Everything Goes Wrong
- Pt. 4. Practical Lessons and Future Directions. 15. Evaluating the Rite of Passage Experience. 16. People Helping People.
- Notes:
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- Errata slip inserted.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-175) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
- 1992
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