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FINAL REPORT <br />RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE SYMPOSIUM ON SERVICES FOR YOUTH <br />on November 5, 1988, a County -wide Symposium on Services for <br />Youth was sponsored by the Board of Commissioners. The purpose <br />of the symposium was to obtain innovative ideas, promote <br />solutions in problem areas, and to form a stronger county -wide <br />network of agency representatives and concerned citizens. <br />Following a keynote address by Dr.Frank Loda, Director of the <br />UNC Center for Early Adolescence, six group sessions were <br />convened. The topics were: 1) Teens in Crisis 2) Education and <br />Drop -Out Prevention 3) Leisure 4) Employment 5) Teens and Their <br />Families and 6) Poverty. Each of these groups identified <br />problems, issues, and gaps, and then developed recommendations <br />and strategies for addressing these concerns. <br />This final report follows a preliminary update presented to the <br />Board of Commissioners in November 1990. It briefly reviews the <br />major actions that agencies have undertaken since the Symposium. <br />The sections of this report correspond to the different group <br />topics, and begin with a synopsis of the problems /issues /gaps <br />that were identified. Each recommendation/ strategy is then <br />listed, accompanied by the status of any action that has been or <br />will be taken, and a brief description of that action. New <br />initiatives that address relevant problems but are not in <br />response to any specific recommendation are noted at the end of <br />the sections. <br />