em areas and identify strengths to which children in a particular community are exposed. 2. Focus most strongly on populations exposed to a number of risk factors. 3. Address problem areas and identify strengths early and at developmental stages. 4. Address multiple risk factors in multiple settings such as family, schools, and peer groups. 5. Offer comprehensive interventions across many systems including health and education and deal with many respects of juveniles lives. 6. Must be intensive and involve multiple weekly or daily contacts with at risk juveniles. 7. Build on strengths, rather than deficiencies. 8. Deal with relationships to others rather than solely on individual 9. Provide clear, consistent response to negative behavior (Andrews 1). There are several organizations that have been developed that fit these principles, and have started making a difference to our nations future already. One thing that makes these organizations successful is that they are specifically aimed at particular age groups, which helps to concentrate on correcting and reducing certain behaviors, negative influences and risks at each stage. Programs such as Parent-Child Interact Training, Healthy Start, Head Start, and Educare help to get a child off on the right foot from pre-birth into early elementary school. Parent-Child Interact and Healthy Start educate low-income and low-education parents on how to best take care of themselves and their infants so as to gain optimum health and reduce ill-effects from such things as drug abuse, malnutrition, and neglect ( 58). Head Start and Educare are organizations whose goals are to increase a childs success in education and reading. Head Start exposes younger children to books and reading before entering elementary school (Howell 59). Educare keeps track of childrens progress from preschool through elementary school (Howell 60). Three major controlled studies of early childhood education and home visitation...
