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Safe passage : making it through adolescence in a risky society

Author: Joy G Dryfoos
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Children today face daunting obstacles on the path to adulthood - failing schools, dangerous streets, drug abuse, teen pregnancy. But the good news, according to child advocate Joy Dryfoos, is that there are many programs out there that work - models that we can apply to our own communities and our own children. In Safe Passage, Dryfoos helps us find them. Indeed, this book examines hundreds of successful programs,  Read more...
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Joy G Dryfoos
ISBN: 0195112563 9780195112566 019513785X 9780195137859
OCLC Number: 37770599
Notes: Rev. ed. of: Adolescents at risk. 1990.
Description: xii, 292 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Foreword / David Hamburg --
1. Safe Passage: What Does It Mean? --
2. Youth in Families, Schools, and Communities --
3. Vulnerable Youth: Sex, Drugs, and Violence --
4. Visits to Five Outstanding Safe Passage Programs --
5. Full-Service Community Schools --
6. School Reform --
7. Coping with Sex, Drugs, and Violence --
8. What Works, and Why? --
9. What Doesn't Work, and Why? --
10. Safe Passage Parents --
11. Safe Passage Schools --
12. Safe Passage Communities --
13. Tracking Resources Through the State and Federal Maze --
14. Ensuring Safe Passage.
Responsibility: Joy G. Dryfoos.
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Children today face daunting obstacles on the path to adulthood - failing schools, dangerous streets, drug abuse, teen pregnancy. But the good news, according to child advocate Joy Dryfoos, is that there are many programs out there that work - models that we can apply to our own communities and our own children. In Safe Passage, Dryfoos helps us find them. Indeed, this book examines hundreds of successful programs, ideas that have worked in the real world - in a very tough real world at that - such as the Turner Middle School in Philadelphia, a model of a "university assisted" community school. Dryfoos examines the new trend toward full-service schools, programs that make the school the hub of the community, serving as enrichment centers and neighborhood safe havens, as well as providing health and human resources on site. She evaluates programs that try to cope with sex, drugs, and violence - revealing which ones work and what aspects of these programs are most effective - and she also dissects programs that have failed, such as the highly touted drug program, DARE. Dryfoos concludes with a passionate call for action, outlining what must be done in families, schools, and communities if our young people are to be assured Safe Passage to the future.

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