This report is the culmination of a 2-year project which served as a research and development initiative focused on assessing, developing, testing, and disseminating information on intensive community-based aftercare prototypes or models for the release of chronic serious juvenile offenders from secure confinement. It includes a review and discussion of the theoretical, research, and program literature collected; info. obtained from telephone interviews with directors of both public- and private-sector aftercare programs; info. obtained from a mail survey asking State officials for program recommendations; and observations from site visits.