Community Youth Development: A Partnership for Action Community Youth Development: A Partnership for Action (original) (raw)

2018, dsadf

The concept of Community Youth Development is introduced and explained to raise the level of accountability, significance, and urgency for developing comprehensive responses to the epidemic of risk facing America's youth. The two theoretical models of adolescence (i.e., Positive Youth Development and Risk and Resiliency) that are employed as the pillars of this approach are also presented. The key components that comprise the community youth development framework are discussed, along with implications for practitioners, researchers, and policy.

Elements of Effective Community-Based Youth Programs

1996

As youth development professionals, as parents, and as friends and neighbors in a community we are acutely aware of the suffering and loss of human potential that accompany young peoples' decisions to engage in problem behaviors (e.g., drugs and alcohol, delinquency, unsafe sex and failure in school). When we consider this loss on a national level the concern we feel for the individuals caught up in high risk behavior must become a concern for the society as a whole. Whether the youth of today participate in high risk behavior or not, they will be affected by living in a society where so many other youth have minimized their chances to become healthy productive adults. It is not surprising that as the percentage of today's youth identified as "at risk" grows to shocking proportions, we often hear this generation referred to as the "lost generation" or as a generation in crisis. A crisis is generally defined as "any sudden interruption in the normal c...

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