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Using a framework built on adolescents’ common developmental challenges and risk factors, this article reviews the rationale and outcome research for five types of adolescent programming (competence and skill development, family- and parent-focused, social integration, multiple-component and neighbourhood transformation programs) and looks at the evidence for maltreated teens and for teens facing other challenges.