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Trends in Youth Development

Visions, Realities and Challenges

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  • © 2001

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Editors:
  1. Peter L. Benson

    1. Search Institute, USA

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  2. Karen Johnson Pittman

    1. Forum for Youth Investment, USA

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Part of the book series: International Series in Outreach Scholarship (OUTR, volume 6)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Framing Youth Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Unfinished Business: Further Reflections on a Decade of Promoting Youth Development

      • Karen Pittman, Merita Irby, Thaddeus Ferber
      Pages 3-50

  3. Arenas of Action that Drive Youth Development

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 51-53
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    2. Perceptual Barriers to Valuing and Supporting Youth

      • Susan Nall Bales
      Pages 55-75

    3. The Policy Climate for Early Adolescent Initiatives

      • Gary Walker
      Pages 77-90

    4. A Matter of Money: The Cost and Financing of Youth Development

      • Robert P. Newman, Stephanie M. Smith, Richard Murphy
      Pages 91-134

    5. The Scientific Foundations of Youth Development

      • Peter L. Benson, Rebecca N. Saito
      Pages 135-154

    6. Measuring Deficits and Assets: How We Track Youth Development Now, and How We Should Track It

      • Gary B. MacDonald, Rafael Valdivieso
      Pages 155-186

  4. Locating Youth Development on the Ground: Systems and Settings

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 187-189
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    2. How History, Ideology, and Structure Shape the Organizations that Shape Youth

      • Joan Costello, Mark Toles, Julie Spielberger, Joan Wynn
      Pages 191-229

    3. Juvenile Justice and Positive Youth Development

      • Robert G. Schwartz
      Pages 231-267

    4. The More Things Change, The More they Stay the Same: The Evolution and Devolution of Youth Employment Programs

      • Alan Zuckerman
      Pages 269-289

    5. Youth Development in Community Settings: Challenges to Our Field and Our Approach

      • James P. Connell, Michelle Alberti Gambone, Thomas J. Smith
      Pages 291-307

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 309-315
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MOVING THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT MESSAGE: TURNING A VAGUE IDEA INTO A MORAL IMPERATIVE Peter L. Benson and Karen Pittman THE CONTAGION OF AN IDEA In the past fifteen years, countless programs, agencies, funding initiatives, profes­ sionals, and volunteers have embraced the term "youth development. " Linked more by shared passion than by formal membership or credentials, these people and places have contributed to a wave of energy and activity not unlike that of a social movement, with a multitude of people "on the ground" connecting to a set of ideas that give sustenance, support, and value to increasingly innovative efforts to build competent, successful, and healthy youth. There are several particularly interesting dimensions to this movement. First, the youth development idea has the potential to draw people and organizations to­ gether across many sectors. Conferences and initiatives using youth development language attract increasingly eclectic audiences, bringing together national youth organizations, schools, city, county, and state agencies, police and juvenile jus­ tice workers, clergy, and committed citizens. Perhaps embedded in the youth de­ velopment idea is a philosophy or a "way" that has created an intellectual and/or spiritual home for actors across many settings. However this happens, it is clear that one of the powerful social consequences of the youth development idea is a connecting of the dots-the weaving within and across city, county, state, and of a tapestry of new relationships.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Search Institute, USA

    Peter L. Benson

  • Forum for Youth Investment, USA

    Karen Johnson Pittman

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