Economic and social climate. Clearinghouse for best practices related to engaging rural communities in justice initiatives and adapting community justice models. Web site for rural communities and small towns is under development. Practitioner tips on approaches to enhancing community safety, telephone and onsite consultations. Also provides free Self-Help Divorce Clinics for simple uncomplicated cases.
Isolation is a key risk factor.
The second video shows the viewer the results of the first, and the book accompanying both is loaded with facts, statistics, information, and insight into the peculiar problems of rural youth. It includes a bibliography and a curriculum. Produced by the Edmund S. Muskie Institute of Public Affairs at the university of Southern Maine. Sorry, no links for this one. Heartland sent trained teams of interviewers into one small town after another in a dozen states in the Great Plains and the Midwest looking for what was behind community success.