Nurturing Young Black Males

Crime, drugs, unemployment. These are the problems. Nurturing Young Black Males offers proven solutions.Most young black American men grow up to lead productive lives. Among high-school drop-outs, though, only half have jobs and over 40 percent are in prison, on parole, or on probation.But there are programs, mostly private, that are proving it is possible to help these teenagers. This book tells how these programs work, describes the difficulties they encounter, and shows how a national program network can be developed.Includes chapters on adolescent development, shifting the focus of youth programs from deterrence to development, and Afrocentrism and the African-American male.