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UCLA's project strive seeks to reunite runaway teens and families

UCLA is offering an intervention program for families and teens in Los Angeles County to stop teens from running away from home due to dissension between parent and child. It is an effort to reduce chronic adolescent homelessness and HIV-related risk behaviors by teaching teens and their parents the necessary skills to deal with unresolved conflict.

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