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Intervention Strategies
Characteristics of Intervention Programs
Risk-Focused Approach
Successful Programs
National Strategies
100
Includes mobilizing the community, building community trust, educating the community, involving schools and parent groups in community programs.
What is community organization?
100
Include preschool/Head Start programs and parent training/support programs.
What are early childhood and family interventions?
100
Based on the concept that the most effective way to prevent a problem is to first identify the factors that tend to increase the risk.
What is the risk-focused approach?
100
Does not deny that there is a problem.
What is the community?
100
Programs to reduce immediate problems such as joblessness and human suffering.
What are short-term emergency measures?
200
Involves crisis intervention, providing role models for youths, integrating mediation, referrals for services, counseling of gang members, drug-use prevention and treatment, helping members leave gangs, and diversion and outreach activities.
What is social intervention?
200
Include curricula, organization of the school, and special services.
What are school-based interventions?
200
Community, family, school, and individual/peer.
What are the factors associated with serious behavior problems among youths?
200
School events, jobs, etc.
What are alternatives to gang involvement?
200
Should be implemented in the senior year of all high schools.
What are nationwide parent-effectiveness programs?
300
An attempt to provide jobs, job training and education, and placement of youths in jobs.
What is opportunities provision?
300
Include school-community collaboration programs, community education, and multicomponent comprehensive programs .
What are community-based interventions?
300
Include gender, resilient temperament, positive social orientation, and intelligence.
What are individual characteristics?
300
Well trained and skilled individuals with empathy and an understanding of a youth’s own subculture and beliefs.
What is the staff?
300
A two year program after high school.
What is a national service program?
400
Law enforcement strategy.
What is suppression?
400
A focus on the family which often needs extensive support and counseling because the parents are products of the same environment and have little skill in appropriate discipline and problem-solving.
What is a vital aspect of any successful prevention program?
400
Youths with strong connections to a stable family, teachers, and others are less likely to become delinquent.
What is bonding.
400
This is normal, and treatment is a continual process rather than a single episode.
What is relapse?
400
Labor laws that emphasize workplace democracy.
What are enhancement of workplace environments?
500
Attempts at dealing with gangs proactively in a preventive way, recognizing that gangs are not just a law-enforcement or criminal justice problem.
What are community-based and national intervention strategies?
500
Play an extremely important role in the success or failure of adolescents and therefore need to be included in intervention programs.
What are schools?
500
Those with whom youths are bonded cannot be just anyone.
What are healthy beliefs and clear standards?
500
Specific and culminate in an award.
What are the goals of the program?
500
People who experience a feeling of powerlessness caused by factors such as joblessness or underemployment, population size, alcohol and drug abuse, a low IQ, and child abuse.
What are those who engage in gangs and crime?