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The Community Alliance For the Ethical Treatment of Youth (CAFETY) is an advocacy group for people enrolled in residential treatment programs for at-risk teenagers. The group's mission includes advocating for access to advocates, due process, alternatives to aversive behavioral interventions, and alternatives to restraints and seclusion for young people in treatment programs.
Using strategic consultation, training, and research-based tools, CTC is designed to help community stakeholders and decision makers understand and apply information about risk and protective factors, and programs that are proven to make a difference in promoting healthy youth development, in order to most effectively address the specific ...
Program Dissemination: NN4Y distributes information about prevention programs to reduce health risk-taking behaviors to community-based and youth organizations, health educators, and state and local health education agencies. Materials Development & Publication: NN4Y publishes training materials, newsletters, and other resources for youth ...
Through a public health approach, CTC helps communities identify risk factors and the necessary resources to successfully address the underlying issues facing youth throughout the community. CTC has been effective in producing favorable reductions in youth delinquency- specifically alcohol and tobacco use and overall crime and violence.
The constant involvement with youth in these not well off communities is what John Brown Childs believes as "youth who actively work for peace and against violence as the inspiration for strategic direction and community rebirth." Thus more community based alternatives to incarceration can help to lower the number of people in prison. [13]
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Youth services is a field of practices within the social services sector in North America.Defined as "programs, activities, and services aimed at providing a range of opportunities for school-aged children, including mentoring, recreation, education, training, community service, or supervision in a safe environment," [1] youth services are a comprehensive series of strategies, activities ...
Alternatives for community and environment (ACE) is an environmental justice community organization located in Roxbury.While ACE has traditionally focused on the Roxbury community, it has recently broadened its efforts across New England to empower lower-income and communities of color who face disproportionate exposure to environmental hazards, including urban heat island effects, air ...