ABSTRACT
The lack of comprehensive planning to meet the problems of troubled and disoriented youth has been a main weakness in the strategy of delinquent prevention, health, housing, employment, recreation, law enforcement, and so on. The school is an obvious neighborhood institution around which a broad plan of local welfare services can be organized. In the Chicago Joint Youth Development Program the role of the school is pivotal in a program that includes also a wide range of community services. Some of the newer, more inclusive programs focus round one particular objective but include various others, realizing that the initial aim can be reached only by dealing with a whole series of impediments that block its achievement. The experience of Haryou and Mobilization for Youth emphasizes the need that such major regional organizations, financed from governmental and private sources, be actively supervised by a highly qualified body, composed of welfare specialists, social scientists, and area representatives.
