Comprehensive Service Integration Programs for At Risk Youth. Final Report.

Programs targeting at-risk young adolescents, aged 10 to 15 years, were studied through a literature review and examination of issues related to evaluating programs for at-risk youth, and site visits to 9 programs at 6 locations. Chapter 1 introduces the study and its objectives, and chapter 2 reviews the literature on youth at risk. Chapter 3 explores issues in evaluating youth programs. Chapter 4 describes the site visits, and chapter 5 describes each of the programs visited. Issues that cut across these programs are discussed in chapter 6, and chapter 7 presents a summary of the project and implications of the findings. Site visits confirmed the initial impression that programs use a variety of configurations to facilitate services and augment service delivery to program clients. Findings also highlighted the importance of service integration as a way to increase the comprehensiveness of program offerings. The most striking implication of the study is the need to conceptualize service integration more broadly. (Contains 8 exhibits and 111 references.) (SLD) *********************************************************************** Ic Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. ************************************************k********************** COMPREHENSIVE SERVICE INTEGRATION PROGRAMS FOR AT RISK YOUTH: FINAL REPORT U S DEPARTMEN1 OF EDUCATION EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER tERICI elS11--lis document nas oeen ietaud.iced as received Iron, tne peison 0 nigantlabon originating a 0 Minor changes have been made ro improve reproducbon guatity _ Points 01 view or oprotons stated tr. In.s document do not necessarily moresent ollictat OERI pot:deun or policy Prepared by: Martha R. Burt Gary Resnick Nancy Matheson Urban Institute 2100 M Street. N.W. Washington, D.C. 20037 CONTRACT NO: HHS-100-92-0005 DELIVERY ORDER: 2 DELIVERABLE # 12 COMPREHENSIVE SERVICE INTEGRATION PROJECTS FOR AT-RISK Y1)11TH UI PROJECT NO: 6256 DELIVERY DATE: December 7, 1992 BEST COPY AVAI1ABLE PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY g0La.. TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) COMPREHENSIVE SERVICE INTEGRATION PROGRAMS FOR AT RISK YOUTH: FINAL REPORT

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