Coproduction provides an approach to youth development that advocates enabling youth to use the skills they have to help others, honoring that contribution with rewards, and using the process of helping others as an opportunity for youth to gain skills that are critical to the realization of their potential.

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PRESIDENT Johnson has declared unconditional war on poverty. The strategy of that war appears to have been shaped by an awareness of the interrelatedness of the social, economic, legal, educational, and psychological problems which beset the poor and by a recognition of the necessity to involve all segments of society in a many-pronged attack on these problems. 1 At present, a half-dozen or so pilot projects 2 already in existence have attempted to deal with the problems of poverty by employing this comprehensive approach. If these offer any indication, the war metaphor is more than effective rhetoric. It is an approach which views poverty as posing a series of complex problems in logistics: how to supply the needed food, housing, medical care, education, jobs, and skills to one-fifth of a nation. The need for such a massive movement of social services, facilities, education, guidance, jobs, and *We wish to dedicate this article to the beloved memory of our father, Edmond Cahn.

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