Hold Them in Your Heart: Successful Strategies for Library Services to At-Risk Teens (Teens @ the Library)

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Summary: A highly recommended in-service training tool
Review: In Hold Them In Your Heart: Successful Strategies For Library Services To At-Risk Teens, Enoch Pratt expert JoAnn Mondowney utilizes the San Francisco Bay Area Youth-at-Risk Project to showcase what librarians need to know about adolescent development and the special challenges facing today's at-risk youth. A highly recommended in-service training tool for urban, suburban, and rural library system staff members, Hold Them In Your Heart offers proven programs and strategies for library services aimed at dealing with pregnancy, drugs, school failure, delinquency, and other teen problems. The informative text is enhanced with ready-to-use templates, forms, checklists, as well as an extensive listing of national organizations providing opportunities for support and partnerships with library-based at-risk projects.