Community Youth Development: Programs, Policies, and Practices

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Francisco Villarruel
SAGE, Jan 23, 2003 - Psychology - 445 pages

Community Youth Development: Programs, Policies, and Practices focuses on positive methods for youth development that are rapidly supplanting the traditional deficit-oriented, problem-reduction approaches. Edited by eminent scholars Francisco A. Villarruel, Daniel F. Perkins, Lynne M. Borden, and Joanne G. Keith, this accessible volume provides practical tools and models for developing community-wide initiatives that strengthen protective factors, build competencies, and focus on thriving indicators. Examining the needs of multiple audiences, programs, and policies, each chapter contributes to an overall understanding of the "how" and "why" of community youth development.

Designed for upper division undergraduate and graduate students in human development, family studies, and education, Community Youth Development: Programs, Policies, and Practices is also an invaluable resource for researchers, practitioners, and policy advocates for youth and community development.

 

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Contents

The African American Child and Positive Youth
27
Research Realities and a Vision
47
Positive Youth Development
79
Facilitating Positive Development
90
The Role of Gender in Enhancing Program
118
Adolescent Sexuality and Positive Youth Development
146
The Role
181
Community Youth
201
A Logical
273
Giving Youth a Voice in Their Own Community
297
Key Elements of Community Youth Development
327
The Role of Competence
341
Supports
373
Subject Index
417
About the Contributors
435
Copyright

Workforce and Youth Development for CourtInvolved
224

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About the author (2003)

Francisco A. Villarruel (Ph.D., 1990, University of Wisconsin, Madison) is an Associate Professor of Family & Child Ecology at Michigan State University and a Research Associate with the Institute for Children, Youth, and Families, a university-wide research and outreach unit promoting positive development of children, youth, and families in communities through the application of the scholarly resources of Michigan State. He is affiliated with the Julian Samora Research Institute, which generates applies knowledge to serve the needs of Latino communities in the Midwest. Since joining Michigan State in 1992, Dr. Villarruel has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in both the Community Services and Child Development programs. His research focus is on developmental contextualism, Latino youth and families, and positive youth development.

Bibliographic information

TitleCommunity Youth Development: Programs, Policies, and Practices
EditorFrancisco Villarruel
PublisherSAGE, 2003
ISBN0761927875, 9780761927877
Length445 pages
Subjects ›  › 

Psychology / Developmental / Adolescent
Psychology / Developmental / Child
Social Science / Children's Studies
Social Science / Social Work
Social Science / Sociology / General
Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family
  
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