A professional who works through community action programs to ameliorate social conditions tending to cause juvenile delinquency and provides counseling and guidance to juveniles. Responsibilities include:

• Aids civil authorities to plan urban, suburban, and rural development to ensure provisions for meeting social needs of youth.
• Works with individuals and groups in danger of becoming delinquent, through individual and group guidance and through use of community resources.
• Refers juveniles to community agencies, such as settlement houses, child guidance clinics, and health clinics, for mental, physical, and social rehabilitation.
• Works closely with law enforcement agencies, schools, employers, health, welfare, and recreation agencies.
• Usually attached to public agency.