Fulfilling the Promise of Children's Services: Why Primary Prevention Efforts Fail and How They Can Succeed

Reveals why youth service groups have largely been unable to meet their objectivesand examines what these groups need to do to implement and sustain effective prevention efforts.Explores the essential factors in a comprehensive primary prevention strategy--for example, fostering collaboration between school, community, and families. Stresses the need for communities to develop long-term prevention strategies, examines how quick-fix programs do little to alleviate problems and can actually hinder proven prevention efforts.

Why have so many youth service groups failed? And how can these groups implement and sustain more successful prevention efforts? This book explores the essential steps for developing a primary prevention strategy, and stresses the importance of a long-term approach to meeting the needs of the youth community.