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Maloney, Shannon – RAND Corporation, 2014
Positive youth development (PYD) orients youth toward pro-social and forward-looking behavior through programs that emphasize youth empowerment and involvement, focus on skill development and character building, incorporate community collaboration at multiple levels, and include positive adult role models and mentors that interact with youth in…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, Magnet Schools, Law Enforcement, Partnerships in Education
Afterschool Alliance, 2010
Afterschool programs across the country provide critically needed services to the nation's children and families; however, many afterschool providers find it difficult to serve youth once they enter middle school. Middle school youth have a unique set of social, emotional and academic needs, and afterschool successfully weaves these together,…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle Schools, After School Programs, Youth Programs
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Phelps, Erin; Zimmerman, Stacy; Warren, A. E. A.; Jelicic, Helena; von Eye, Alexander; Lerner, Richard M. – Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 2009
Using data from Grades 5 to 7 of the longitudinal 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development (PYD), this research assessed the structure and development of PYD. Building on Grade 5 findings, that "Five Cs" (Competence, Confidence, Connection, Character, and Caring) could be empirically defined as latent constructs converging on a second-order…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Early Adolescents, Adolescents, Grade 6
Scales, Peter C. – 1991
Designed to promote the creation of programs and policies that meet the needs of young adolescents, this report considers trends and forces affecting children between the ages of 10 and 15 and offers recommendations for drawing out adolescents' positive possibilities. Section 1 acknowledges trends that point to an increasing number of at-risk…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Child Welfare, Human Services