The article frames some of the fundamental challenges facing juvenile corrections nationwide, emphasizing certain major issues and key stumbling blocks. It describes the overall program development strategy behind the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Intensive Juvenile Aftercare Program initiative, highlighting the way in which four demonstration sites have structured the model and put it into operation. Common to the demonstration projects in Colorado, Nevada, New Jersey and Virginia is a system of overarching case management, which includes five specific programmatic components: (1) assessment, classification and selection criteria; (2) individual case planning incorporating a family and community perspective; (3) intensive surveillance, support, and services; (4) incentives and graduated consequences coupled with realistic, enforceable conditions; and (5) service brokerage with community resources and linkage with social networks. References