Literacy and Juvenile Corrections-Now, There's a Guide
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Think about adding this title to your public library’s collection or your high school library’s professional reading shelf. Who knows? Maybe an at-risk teen in your community can be reached before ever becoming a detainee. Sweeney covers best practices for collection development, reader’s advisory, and collaborating with social services, and she’s a strong advocate for lifelong learning, with the library playing a key role in that process. This article originally appeared in School Library Journal’s enewsletter SLJTeen. Subscribe here.
Jennifer Sweeney’s Literacy: A Way Out for At-Risk Youth (Libraries Unlimited), which was just published in December, is a welcome and much-needed resource for those of us who serve or are interested in helping this special group of kids. By putting an end to illiteracy in at-risk teens, we have an opportunity to break the cycle in which nearly 77 percent of teens who were incarcerated end up back in detention centers.
