Title: Transforming youth-serving organizations to support healthy youth development /
Authors: VeLure Roholt, Ross, 1970-
Publisher: Jossey-Bass/Wiley,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Youth Services for; Youth development.; Organizational change.
Abstract: This volume tells the story of major organizational change efforts at one municipal youth-serving organization to better support healthy youth development system wide. Presenting the viewpoints of young people, frontline staff, supervisors, managers, and the director, it reviews how the organization developed and transformed. Each article then describes the different strategies and tactics used to support organizational transformation.
Contents: Issue editors' notes / Ross VeLure Roholt ... [et al.] -- Executive summary -- Proem / Christopher B. Coleman -- Preface / Michael Hahm -- Missing in the youth development literature: the organization as host, cage, and promise / Ross VeLure Roholt ... [et al.] -- From youth worker professional development to organizational change / Sheetal Rana ... [et al.] -- Use of research for transforming youth agencies / Michael Baizerman, Emily Rence, Sean Johnson -- Youth advisory structures: listening to young people to support quality youth services / Ross VeLure Roholt, Megan Mueller -- Shaping partnerships by doing the work / Kathy Korum -- What can local foundations do to support youth service system change efforts? / Wokie Weah, Marcus Pope -- From lessons learned to emerging practices / Michael Baizerman ... [et al.].