US DOD: Defence Department leaders and teens inaugurate new Strategic Youth Action Plan.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-7 May 1999-US DOD: Defence Department leaders and teens inaugurate new Strategic Youth Action Plan (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:060599 After almost a year of development, the Department of Defense has released its first-ever Strategic Youth Action Plan. The DoD plan is an overarching strategy to better support the teen-age children of servicemembers by standardizing youth programs and policies, maximizing the effectiveness of partnerships with other organizations serving youths such as the Boys and Girls Club of America, and by promoting the best possible command support for youth programs.

The plan is DoD's "roadmap to the future," intended to guide the many agencies supporting activities and programs for the military's teen-agers,...