Article: Correlates of sexual experience among a nationally representative sample of alternative high school students. (Research Papers).

Sexual risk behavior declined for adolescents the past decade, but some groups of adolescents remain vulnerable to sexual risk and other health-risk behaviors. (1) One group of potentially vulnerable adolescents includes those who attend alternative schools in lieu of expulsion or placement in the juvenile justice system, or those who enter alternative schools in place of rehabilitative programs. Alternative schools also serve students with social and emotional needs that cannot be met in mainstream schools. A substantial number of adolescents attend alternative schools; between 1997 and 1998, more than 400,000 students were enrolled in 2,800 alternative schools. (2)

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