ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on alternate services which see themselves as radically different from traditional services, which operate out of assumptions which young people are beginning to define as a new kind of community. The new alternate services try to operate within the values of the counter-culture. Alternate services struggle to define precisely how to provide help operating on the basis of roughly the opposite priorities. Alternate services respond to the unique and particular needs which the existence of the counter-culture has created. Alternate services also respond to the pressure that young people face when they find themselves in conflict between their own and their parents' values. The most highly developed and influential alternate services have grown up in the youth ghettos of major cities. Once an alternate service program has provided for its survival, it must define a structure which will provide its service.
