Positive Youth Development Principles in Practice : How Youth Service Organizations Help Youth Thrive /
<B>This open access book tells the story of eight youth service organizations in the USA, using the voices of the impacted youth and the staff who accompanied them.</b> Drawing on a series of structured interviews with young people and staff and informed by positive youth development (PY...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2024.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | <B>This open access book tells the story of eight youth service organizations in the USA, using the voices of the impacted youth and the staff who accompanied them.</b> Drawing on a series of structured interviews with young people and staff and informed by positive youth development (PYD), ideas the author proposes nine universal principles for working with youth from under-resourced neighborhoods that can be applied to any youth organization. The principles include orienting youth towards a purposeful future, providing an opportunity to build academic and critical thinking abilities, and developing individual's identity and sense of agency. The book contributes to the emerging methodology of principles-focused evaluation and draws on range of disciplines including psychology, education and youth studies. <i>The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Thrive Foundation.</i> |
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| Item Description: | Preface: Nine Principles of Highly Effective Youth Service Organizations Introduction: Effective Youth Organizations: A Place to Thrive 1: Creating a Safe, Supportive, Values-Driven Community 2: Providing Trusted, Committed Caring Adults with Whom Youth Can Establish Relationships 3: Helping Youth Develop their Identity and Sense of Agency 4: Orienting Youth to a Purposeful Future 5: Expanding Youth's World Through Exposure to New Experiences and Connecting them to Resources 6: Providing Opportunity for Youth to Develop Academic and Critical Thinking Abilities 7: Providing Opportunity for Youth to Teach Life-Skills and Healthy Habits 8: Providing Opportunity for Youth to Advance Youths' Social, Emotional, and Relationship Skills 9: Empowering Youth to Engage in the Betterment of their Communities and the World Conclusion: At the Intersection of Theory and Practice References Index |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781350451438 1350451436 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9781350451438 |