Years of program development and research have provided effective strategies for strengthening America's families to prevent delinquency. This guide has been written to help program planners, policy makers, and service providers determine the most effective family-focused and parenting intervention strategies for high-risk youth and families. It reviews what is known about the impact of family characteristics on the risk for delinquency as well as promising family interventions. Providers using the guide will be better able to choose or modify existing programs or create new interventions for high-risk youth.

A technical assistance reference and resource document for Native American parents, American Indian Tribes and Alaska Native governments; Tribal and inter-Tribal organizations; and Federal, State, and local child support enforcement and other professionals. Summarizes info. needed to assess and formulate how to carry out the technical amendments to the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, referred to as PRWORA. This report provides a context within which all parties can discuss the new child support enforcement authorities in the technical amendments to the Welfare Reform Act (PRWORA) and how to carry them out.

This informative clinical resource and text presents Froma Walsh's family resilience framework for intervention and prevention with clients dealing with adversity. Drawing on extensive research and clinical experience, the author describes key processes in resilience for practitioners to target and facilitate. Useful guidelines and case illustrations address a wide range of challenges: sudden crisis, trauma, and loss; disruptive transitions, such as job loss, divorce, and migration; persistent multistress conditions of serious illness or poverty; and barriers to success for at-risk youth. New to this edition: reflects research and practice advances chapter on resilience-oriented approaches to recovery from major disasters chapter on applications in community-based programs and international contexts.