They're fighting for our kids, and the battleground is the street!In 1956, the Boston Special Youth Project defined the field of detached youthwork this way: "Detached work involves intensive contact with a corner-group where the worker meets the teen-age group in their natural environment. By close association with them and getting to know their needs as a group and as individuals, the worker forms a positive relationship and helps them to engage in socially acceptable activities which they com...
Susan's Growing Up (Books Beyond Words) ()
by Sheila Hollins and Valerie Sinason
Waifdom in the Soviet Union (Fls - Foreign Language Studies, v. 3)
by Rene Bosewitz
In the early years of this century in the Soviet Union there was a massive occurrence of an important social problem - the Russians called it besprizornost - children and teenagers who had neither parents nor care and attention from the state. At certain periods there were several millions of them. This book describes the features of the sub-culture which these Soviet citizens formed and the attempts by the government and other agencies to eradicate it. The material hopes to present the theme ob...
Men are Beasts (Living with Hiv/AIDS, #1)
by Cornelius Wambi Gulere
Algo Nueva Te Está Sucdiendo (Girlology / Guyology)
by Melisa Holmes and Trish Hutchison
Youth Online (New Literacies and Digital Epistemologies, #19)
by Angela Thomas
Adolescence in Pacific Island Societies
A ground-breaking comparative study of adolescence, Adolescence in Pacific Island Societies examines how biology, culture, and adolescence interact in the rapidly changing Pacific Islands, and question the relationship of social change and adolescent experience.
Hard Times (A Shelter campaign report)
by Nigel Pollitt, Alan Booth, and Helen Kay
The Darkest Nights Produce the Brightest Stars
by Run This City Media