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Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2015
The Jim Casey Youth Opportunities Initiative has spent 14 years working with young people with foster care experience, engaging them to help identify what they need to transition successfully to adulthood. Consistently, young people have emphasized that their foster care experiences are far from normal. What they need--but too often do not…
Descriptors: Foster Care, Adolescent Development, Family Environment, Family Relationship
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Kurtines, William M.; Montgomery, Marilyn J.; Ferrer-Wreder, Laura; Berman, Steven L.; Lorente, Carolyn Cass; Silverman, Wendy K. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2008
The efforts of the Miami Youth Development Project reported in this special issue illustrate how Developmental Intervention Science (DIS; a fusion of the developmental and intervention science) extended to include outreach research contributes to the development of community-supported positive youth development programs. In the process, the…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Intervention, Youth Programs, Program Descriptions
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McCook, Kathleen de la Pena; Meyer, Rachel – Public Libraries, 2001
Examines CCIs (Comprehensive Community Initiatives), which can help librarians expand services to young adults who live in poverty; reviews a Wisconsin plan which highlights community-based librarianship; presents a case study of a Florida CCI-based youth development project; and discusses public libraries and CCIs, and library education programs…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Case Studies, Disadvantaged Youth
Florida Univ., Gainesville. Inst. of Food and Agricultural Sciences. – 2002
The Conversation on Youth Development in the 21st Century was convened around the nation to draw together youth and adults to discuss youth development priorities at the local, state, and national levels. Convened by the local 4-H program and involving community partners from outside 4-H, county conversations were held in 38 of Florida's 67…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adolescent Development, Agricultural Education, Citizen Participation