Positive Youth Development Principles in Practice
Subtitle: How Youth Service Organizations Help Youth Thrive
By: Peter L. Samuelson
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2024
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781350451438; 9781350451414; 9781350451421; 9781350451445
Subjects: Youth development; Youth; Services for; Organization & management of education; Social work
Description: 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. 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.  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.
Notes: Open Access Unrestricted online access

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Table of contents: title: 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