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Establishing a Continuum of Accountability-Based Sanctions for Juveniles: Allegheny County's Experience

Publication year: 1999 | Cataloged on: Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: The "development and implementation of a whole series of community-based intervention programs emphasizing individual accountability with a system of graduated sanctions" during a 3-year initiative known as the Accountability-Based Community Intervention or ABC Project is recounted (p. 1). Sections contained in this document are: a healthy continuum; prelude -- system assessment; sample task force roster; rethinking the mission; "The Mission of the Allegheny County Juvenile Probation Department"; the Bloomfield-Garfield Collaborative Internship Program; growing a program and system enhancements; making probation work; expanding and enhancing the continuum; organization and evaluation; aftercare in Allegheny County; conclusion -- change, and its limits.
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