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Smith, Emilie Phillips; Faulk, Monique; Sizer, Monteic A. – Youth & Society, 2016
Community contexts are important ecological settings related to problem behavior and positive youth development (PYD). While substantial work has focused on neighborhood disadvantage, the current study explores the role of community assets, specifically linkages to important institutional resources and people in those settings. These concepts are…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Behavior Problems, Youth, Case Studies
Hauser, Angella – ProQuest LLC, 2014
The purpose of this study was to determine what African Americans who serve in upper-level school leadership positions and who have faced significant barriers as children attribute to their resilience and success. I focused on individual resilience, using the definition summarized by VanBreda (2001): "[R]esilience theory addresses the…
Descriptors: African Americans, Resilience (Psychology), Success, Qualitative Research