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Bronwyn Bevan; Deborah Moroney; Megan Brown – Afterschool Matters, 2023
Youth fields professionals create the conditions in which young people can thrive: They activate the vision for high-quality programs; develop tools, systems, and approaches for designing and sustaining such programs; and form relationships with and among participating youth. However while investments in afterschool programming have continued to…
Descriptors: Community Cooperation, Community Development, Youth Leaders, Youth Programs
MacFarlane, Jaclyn R.; Turner, Tandra T.; Russell, Christina A. – Policy Studies Associates, Inc., 2018
Funded through the New York City Young Men's Initiative (YMI), the Cornerstone Mentoring Program is designed to support youth in key life and educational transitions as they progress into middle and high school, through the development of relationships with positive and caring adults. Launched in 2012, the mentoring program is implemented in…
Descriptors: Mentors, Community Development, Community Programs, Youth
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Taylor, Henry Louis, Jr.; McGlynn, Linda Greenough – New Directions for Youth Development, 2009
Universities, because of their vast human and fiscal resources, can play the central role in assisting in the development of school-centered community development programs that make youth development their top priority. The Futures Academy, a K-8 public school in the Fruit Belt, an inner-city neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, offers a useful…
Descriptors: Community Development, Youth Programs, Educational Opportunities, Educational Change
Anderson, Stuart – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2009
Building the research capacity of the vocational education and training (VET) sector is a key concern for the National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER). To assist with this objective, NCVER supports an academic scholarship program, whereby VET practitioners are sponsored to undertake university study at honours', master's or…
Descriptors: Health Services, Community Development, Scholarships, Vocational Education
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Dickson, Alec – Community Development Journal, 1973
Specific examples of curriculum-based community service from elementary through university level are cited in response to criticisms of education. The use of resources in assisting professionals is cited in several contexts: social work, medicine, police work, etc. The particular emphasis is on youth, especially those readily available. (AG)
Descriptors: Community Benefits, Community Development, Community Services, Curriculum Development
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Shaw, Curt; Scheer, Kendall; Higbee, Paul – Rural Educator, 2000
Describes the development of entrepreneurship programs for youth in rural Nebraska and South Dakota. Discusses the cooperative efforts of four institutions and organizations to promote entrepreneurship education, school-based activities tied to entrepreneurship and community development, and the importance of peer networks and community awareness…
Descriptors: Community Development, Educational Cooperation, Educational Innovation, Elementary Secondary Education
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Guajardo, Francisco; Perez, Delia; Guajardo, Miguel A.; Davila, Eric; Ozuna, Juan; Saenz, Maribel; Casaperalta, Nadia – International Journal of Leadership in Education, 2006
The Llano Grande Center is a non-profit education and community development organization founded in the mid-1990s by youth and teachers out of a public high school classroom in a rural South Texas (USA) community. The Center was created, in large part, to cultivate youth voices as important elements of curriculum development and teacher training…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Community Development, Rural Schools, Action Research
Harkavy, Ira – Equity and Choice, 1990
A university-assisted participatory action project, the West Philadelphia Improvement Corps (WEPIC), has worked with several schools in Philadelphia to develop comprehensive community school projects. WEPIC is now a school-based neighborhood and school revitalization movement that attempts to serve, educate, involve, and activate all members of…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Schools, Demonstration Programs, Neighborhood Improvement
Roberts, Susan; Dedrick, Angie; Mitchell, Graham – 1998
This report describes a project initiated at Westlawn Junior High School, Edmonton (Canada), in which the Community Development Office of Capital Health (CDO) worked with students using the asset-based community building approach. Focus was on the discovery, connection, and mobilization of the students' assets and gifts and connecting these with…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Coordination, Community Development, Community Programs
Johns, Susan; Kilpatrick, Sue; Falk, Ian; Mulford, Bill – 2000
A case study of a rural community in Western Australia examined factors responsible for the progress made in breaking down barriers between youth and adults and building community cohesiveness. Community documents and interviews with school personnel, students, and community members revealed that the high school worked with the community to build…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Involvement, Cooperative Education, Education Work Relationship
Decker, Larry E., Ed.; Romney, Valerie A., Ed. – 1992
This document explores the application of the community education process to restructuring activities at both the state and local level. The monograph contains the following papers: "In the Forefront of Restructuring" (Larry Decker, Valerie Romney); "Building Learning Communities: Realities of Educational Restructuring" (Larry…
Descriptors: Community Development, Community Education, Community Involvement, Community Resources
McConnell, Charlie, Ed. – 1996
The following papers are included: "Foreword" (Alexander); "Preface" (McConnell); "Editorial Introduction" (McConnell); "People Power" (Gibson); "Community Education within the Context of Reorganisation of Local Government" (Hughes); "The Challenge of Change" (Alexander Report);…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Change Strategies, Community Development
Falk, Ian; Golding, Barry; Balatti, Josephine – 2000
The 10 portraits, or case studies, in this book are intended to show how locally-owned adult education turns everyday learning into social and economic well-being. Taken alone, each portrait tries to give a particular insight into the daily transformation of adults and their local communities. Together, the group portrait shows how strongly adult…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Literacy, Community Benefits, Community Development