NCJ Number
101838
Date Published
1985
Length
86 pages
Annotation
Testimony on October 7, 1985, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources describes alternative education services for youth incapable of achieving and adapting to the mainline public school environment.
Abstract
Testimony by the executive director of the Marmalade School (a private, nonprofit school in Salt Lake City, Utah,) describes that school's services for problem youth. One portion of the program serves youth under the jurisdiction of the State division of corrections. Services include individual educational and psychological assessment; general and special education; intensive individual and group counseling; tracking that includes after-hour contact and supervision; and vocational assessment, counseling, and placement. Testimony by the administrator of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention describes that agency's funding and technical assistance for public and private alternative education services for delinquent youths. The director of the Exodus programs in Atlanta, Ga., describes an alternative juvenile education program that combines the services of public school teachers, volunteers, and social service professionals to meet the multiple needs of youth who have failed to function appropriately in mainline public schools. A juvenile judge in Salt Lake City, Utah, describes some of the alternative education programs used by his court.