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Category : Occupational training
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Toward a National Youth Development System
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Occupational training
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Future Choices
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Category : Federal aid to youth services
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Contract with America's Youth
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ISBN: 9781887031523
Category : Life skills
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The goal in this collection of 22 essays is to consider youth policy based on the themes of promoting youth development, building supportive communities, and reforming systems/linking services. These themes arise from the editors' and contributors' belief that policy makers, program planners, practitioners and researchers need to recognize and emphasize the importance of holistic and positive approaches to youth issues as well as examine the impact that youth has upon family and community. They argue that the United States has an unprecedented opportunity to create a national youth agenda--a climate within which building a base of community supports and opportunities for young people may be possible. However, a massive paradigm shift is required if this agenda is to have positive youth development, rather than deterrence and punishment, as its base: the operating assumption must shift from thinking that youth problems, including violence, drug addiction, and teen pregnancy, are the principal barriers to youth development, and that problem prevention should be the national focus. Rather, youth development needs to be viewed as the most effective strategy for the prevention of youth problems. (TS)
Toward Positive Youth Development
Author: Marybeth ShinnPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199716595
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Social settings have enormous power to promote or hinder positive youth development. Researchers and practitioners know a great deal about features of schools and programs for youth that affect development, but much less about how to transform settings to bring about these desirable features. This book shows how to harness the power of settings. It shifts the debate from simply enhancing youth outcomes at the individual level to improving the settings of youths' daily lives. The book offers researchers and practitioners blueprints for creating and changing influential settings including classrooms, schools, universities, out-of-school time programs, ethnic systems of supplementary education, and other community-based programs. Leading scholars in psychology, education, human development, sociology, anthropology, economics, law, and public policy discuss a wide array of social change strategies, and describe how to measure key features of settings as a target and guide for change. The authors also demonstrate how larger social structures - such as school districts, community coalitions, community data resources - can support change. Many of the chapters describe ways to make settings work for all youth, including those marginalized by reason of race, ethnicity, social class, or sexual orientation. Toward Positive Youth Development will guide researchers, educators, administrators and policy makers to improve schools and youth programs for all of America's youth.
Community Programs to Promote Youth Development
Author: Institute of MedicinePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309072751
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities have long been thought to play a key role in the lives of adolescents. But what do we know about the role of such programs for today's adolescents? How can we ensure that programs are designed to successfully meet young people's developmental needs and help them become healthy, happy, and productive adults? Community Programs to Promote Youth Development explores these questions, focusing on essential elements of adolescent well-being and healthy development. It offers recommendations for policy, practice, and research to ensure that programs are well designed to meet young people's developmental needs. The book also discusses the features of programs that can contribute to a successful transition from adolescence to adulthood. It examines what we know about the current landscape of youth development programs for America's youth, as well as how these programs are meeting their diverse needs. Recognizing the importance of adolescence as a period of transition to adulthood, Community Programs to Promote Youth Development offers authoritative guidance to policy makers, practitioners, researchers, and other key stakeholders on the role of youth development programs to promote the healthy development and well-being of the nation's youth.
Resources in Education
Author: Report
Author: United States. National Advisory Council on Economic OpportunityPublisher:
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Category : Economic assistance, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 140
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A Design for Youth Development Policy
Author: Center for Action Research. Youth Development ProgramPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Toward a Nationwide Policy on Youth
Author: Dianne Marie LaMountainPublisher:
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Category : Policy sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Evaluation Forum
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Category : Occupational training
Languages : en
Pages : 104
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