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Developmental Assets and Community-Based Youth Programs in Columbia, Guatemala, and Honduras
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Claire M. de Mezerville-López – Journal of Youth Development, 2023
This paper explores the external developmental assets and how they manifest in specific youth programs from Colombia, Guatemala, and Honduras. An evaluation process was created through a qualitative phenomenological with the youth programs' leadership. To triangulate the data, a survey was developed and piloted with a small sample from three youth…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Programs, Youth Programs, Program Evaluation
The Growing Out-of-School Time Field: Past, Present, and Future. Current Issues in Out-of-School Time
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Malone, Helen Janc, Ed.; Donahue, Tara, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2017
The Information Age Publishing new book series, Current Issues in Out-of-School Time, is designed with a purpose to disseminate original research and promising practices that further the Out-of-School Time (OST) field. This first book sets the foundation on which the series rests upon, by offering an analysis of the progress made since the 2000s,…
Descriptors: After School Programs, Child Development, Adolescent Development, Theory Practice Relationship
Out-of-School Time Programs for Older Youth. Research Update: Highlights from the Out-of-School Time Database. Number 7
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Harvard Family Research Project, 2011
Out-of-school time (OST) programs focused on older youth--specifically, youth in middle and high school--can help participants successfully navigate their adolescence and learn new skills well into their teens. OST programs can also help prepare older youth for a variety of new roles that they will assume as they enter college and the workforce.…
Descriptors: Quasiexperimental Design, Mentors, After School Programs, Databases
Prevention That Works for Children and Youth: An Introduction.
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Weissberg, Roger P.; Kumpfer, Karol L.; Seligman, Martin E. P. – American Psychologist, 2003
Introduces a collection of articles that proposes standards for empirically supported prevention programming for children and youth and steps to integrate prevention science with practice. Articles highlight key research findings and common principles for effective programming across family, school, community, health care, and policy interventions…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Child Development, Community Programs, Elementary Secondary Education
Leveraging Social Capital and School Improvement: The Case of a School Network and a Comprehensive Community Initiative in Chicago.
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Kahne, Joseph; O'Brien, James; Brown, Andrea; Quinn, Therese – Educational Administration Quarterly, 2001
Assesses the first four and one-half years of an effort by a foundation in Chicago to promote children's and adolescents' social and academic development as part of a comprehensive community initiative. Examines the potential and challenges associated with the foundation's strategy of developing social capital within a network of schools and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescent Development, Child Development, Community Programs
Beyond Home and School: The Role of Primary Supports in Youth Development. A Chapin Hall Report.
Merry, Sheila M. – 2000
Primary support programs may be identified as programs, places, and activities beyond schools that are available to and appropriate for all children and their families and that supplement the family's own capacity to promote its children's safe and healthy development. This report examines 77 quality youth-serving programs that provide some…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, After School Programs, Child Development, Childhood Needs