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This manual was designed to provide school administrators, counselors, teachers, parent groups, and community members with a comprehensive school-based program for preventing alcohol problems. Detection and intervention before the onset of alcohol and drug problems is stressed. Modeled after employees' assistance programs used to identify and aid employees with negative work performance, the Student Assistance Program described in this manual uses professional counselors who are accountable to the community health agency and school in which they work. The manual describes the counseling program in five chapters, using a question and answer format. The chapters include: 1) The Program in Action: Six Kinds of Groups; 2) Getting Started: Involving Schools, Students, and Parents; 3) Student Assistance Counselors: Qualifications and Duties; 4) Referral to the Program: Getting the Student in the Door; and 5) Community Support: Involving Parent Groups, Faculty, and the Community. A checklist for implementation and a bibliography are provided. The appendices consist of the student assistance program policy for handling student alcohol and drug use, the Code of Federal Regulations regarding the confidentiality of alcohol and drug abuse patient records, a list of state and territorial alcoholism program directors, a counselor evaluation form, an evaluation summary, a sample student questionnaire and a summary reporting form. (ABB)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert