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The present article reports on the use of a family-based parole initiative known as the Growing Up FAST program. The Growing Up FAST parole program targets serious youthful offenders released from juvenile correctional facilities and their families. A full description of this family-based initiative is given, and is augmented by a case example of one family's journey through the five levels of the Growing Up FAST parole program.
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Partridge, C.R., Gavazzi, S.M. & Rhine, E.E. Working with the Families of Serious Juvenile Offenders: The Growing Up Fast Parole Program. Contemporary Family Therapy 23, 403–417 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013048927972
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