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Direct linkPryce, Julia M.; Silverthorn, Naida; Sanchez, Bernadette; DuBois, David L. – New Directions for Youth Development, 2010
The authors examine GirlPOWER! an innovative program that uses structure and group-based activities to enhance one-to-one mentoring relationships for young adolescent girls from the perspective of the focus, purpose, and authorship dimensions of mentoring relationships that Karcher and Nakkula described. The discussion draws on several sources of…
Descriptors: Mentors, Early Adolescents, Females, Gender Issues
Swanson, Elizabeth F. – New Directions for Youth Development, 2005
Chicago Public Schools, in partnership with the greater Chicago community, is implementing the largest-scale community school initiative in the nation. The establishment of Local School Councils (LSCs) and the creation of small schools, charter schools, and other alternative educational settings have propelled Chicago into the national spotlight.…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Community Schools, School Councils, Small Schools
Iverson, Dianne – New Directions for Youth Development, 2005
The Schools Uniting Neighborhoods (SUN) Community Schools Initiative is a community-driven model that allows each school community to design the programs that fit neighborhood needs, while working toward core goals that stretch across all SUN Community Schools. In this article, the author describes the history of SUN Community Schools and its core…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Community Schools, Educational Change, Program Descriptions
Villarreal, Lisa R. – New Directions for Youth Development, 2005
A pioneer effort when passed as a bipartisan bill into legislation in 1991, California's Healthy Start initiative now stands out as a promising model for the emerging community school movement. Healthy Start is intended to bring "comprehensive, integrated, supports and services" to California's most disadvantaged K-12 students and…
Descriptors: Community Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Student Development, Statewide Planning
Ouellette, Mark – New Directions for Youth Development, 2006
Few communities have developed successful strategies for attracting large numbers of older youth to their out-of-school-time programs. Older youth are a challenging population to serve programmatically for several reasons: (1) Demanding schedules mean that young people's participation on a regular basis can be challenging; (2) Teens are not…
Descriptors: Youth Programs, After School Programs, Young Adults, School Community Programs
Diehl, Daniel; Gray, Cathy; O'Connor, Ginny – New Directions for Youth Development, 2005
The first full-service school in Evansville, Indiana, began at Cedar Hall Elementary School in the mid-1990s. In the planning phase of the Cedar Hall pilot, a number of community-based organizations, businesses, parents, and churches were invited to come together to develop a full-service school framework. In 2000, a district council was…
Descriptors: Integrated Services, Program Evaluation, Partnerships in Education, School Community Relationship
