Youth Out of the Education Mainstream Initiative
In 1996, the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) and the U.S. Department of Education's Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program asked the National School Safety Center to develop strategies for enhancing services to youth out of the education mainstream. The Youth Out of the Education Mainstream (YOEM) initiative drew attention to the needs of five often interrelated categories of at-risk youth: students fearful of attending school because of violence, truants, dropouts, suspended/expelled youth, and youth returning to school from correctional settings in the juvenile justice system. As a result of their separation from mainstream education, youth in these categories face many obstacles to becoming successful, socially responsible adults.
This Bulletin is one in a series designed to address issues associated with the five categories of youth identified by the YOEM initiative. Its purpose is to shed light on successful strategies for reintegrating youth from juvenile justice system settings into the education mainstream and to guide youth-serving professionals toward promising programs, practices, and resources.
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