Model Training Program Set Up For Juvenile Delinquency Work

The Judge Baker Guidance Center, a teaching unit directed by the University's Medical School, Graduate School of Education, and Department of Social Relations, has announced a five-year program to develop a model training course for workers in juvenile delinquency. If successful, the program will be followed by other universities.

Undisclosed until now, the project began three years ago when the Center received a $105,000 grant from the National Institute of Mental Health. During the first year, the Center organized the resources of the University and community. In the second, students were admitted to do field work.

Students selected for this work may come from the Law School and Divinity School as well as the three departments directing the Center.

In addition, a small number of PBH volunteers will work with the 30 mentally disturbed children expected to live in the Center's new building on Longwood Ave. Constructed through a $1.5 million grant from the Manville Foundation, the building will also house a school for students with learning problems.