NCJ Number
78963
Editor(s)
R benDavid,
J Carmany,
C Cook,
H Epps,
J Statman,
B Walker
Date Published
1978
Length
332 pages
Annotation
This manual is designed as a basic guide to the development and operation of programs with comprehensive services for runaway youths and their families.
Abstract
The manual's first section addresses critical program issues in the areas of outreach, intake, counseling, groupwork, alternative living, aftercare, youth advocacy, third-world youth and their families, volunteers, and youth participation. Articles in the second section focus on organizational issues. The authors present solutions to organizational problems that combine their agencies' values with functional structures. Increasing the skills and knowledge base of the staff is discussed in one presentation, while another considers the effects of staff 'burn-out' and offers suggestions for dealing with it. Other articles in the section deal with the relationship between an alternative program and its board and an example of how philosophy and structure are woven together to create an organizational climate. The third section, which provides articles on management issues, discusses the management of runaway programs from a perspective which recognizes the plurality of management and the complexity of runaway organizations. The overall intent of the presentations is to give the reader a framework for understanding, analyzing, and applying the principles and techniques of management. The fourth section contains papers dealing with the ways in which runaway centers can facilitate change and use the institutions and resources of the community on behalf of their client populations. The concluding section presents a consultant's view of the Western Technical Assistance contract, a federally supported technical assistance project for runaway programs in the Western regions of the United States. References and footnotes accompany a few of the articles.