{"title":"Measuring social capital change using ripple mapping.","authors":"Barbara Baker, Elaine M Johannes","doi":"10.1002/yd.20056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20056","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article provides a detailed description of how to implement a ripple mapping activity to assess youth program effects on community capital and concludes with examples from Maine and Kansas. The maps lead to group reflection on project outcomes and further research and evaluation questions for group members. The results from five Maine communities showed that youth in schools and community clubs promoted intentional, mutually beneficial relationships with community groups and businesses and increased shared action on community projects. Likewise, youth in five small Kansas towns implemented and evaluated health promotion projects and found through mapping that youth built social capital in addition to awareness, knowledge, and skills in community health promotion. Ripple mapping helped to demonstrate that actions of youth-adult partnerships in both states improved the built, human, and social capital in small towns. </p>","PeriodicalId":83817,"journal":{"name":"New directions for youth development","volume":"2013 138","pages":"31-47, 9-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/yd.20056","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31600075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social capital and vulnerability from the family, neighborhood, school, and community perspectives.","authors":"Bonita Williams, Suzanne M Le Menestrel","doi":"10.1002/yd.20060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20060","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article reviews research and offers program examples for developing social capital in youth with a range of vulnerabilities: emotional, physical, social, and developmental. Protective factors provided by developing social capital at the individual level include access to support networks, transition to employment, and community connectedness. The authors feature approaches from the cooperative extension system, which links university and community resources, and identify exemplary programs that support social capital development by intervening with families, schools, neighborhoods, and communities. </p>","PeriodicalId":83817,"journal":{"name":"New directions for youth development","volume":"2013 138","pages":"97-107, 12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/yd.20060","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31600581","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Engaging underrepresented youth populations in community youth development: tapping social capital as a critical resource.","authors":"Nancy Erbstein","doi":"10.1002/yd.20061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20061","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For youth who are the most vulnerable to challenging community conditions, more limited opportunities, and poor health, educational and economic trajectories derive especially strong benefits from engagement in community youth development efforts. Although communities can benefit in powerful ways from the knowledge and insight of these youth populations, the experiences of vulnerable youth are often underrepresented in planning and decision making. This article draws on lessons learned from two communities that successfully engaged such youth in a community change initiative over four years. Key elements in creating the types of safe, supportive, and meaningful settings that promote young people's ongoing participation and leadership were intentionality and commitment; local knowledge of vulnerable populations; adult allies with key capacities; meaningful focus; resources for intensive outreach, relationship building, and youth support; and continuity of key adults. Each of these elements is described, identifying the ways they build on often underrecognized forms of social capital and offering lessons learned about engaging underserved youth populations in community youth development. </p>","PeriodicalId":83817,"journal":{"name":"New directions for youth development","volume":"2013 138","pages":"109-24, 12-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/yd.20061","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31600582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relationships, learning, and development: a student perspective.","authors":"Beth Bernstein-Yamashiro, Gil G Noam","doi":"10.1002/yd.20046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20046","url":null,"abstract":"In data derived from student interviews, students describe how they see teacher-student relationships function for them in their experience of school, their personal development, and their academic success. These relationships are central to students' ability to feel connected at school and to their emerging identities. Students describe how certain teachers are able to reach out to them personally, enabling them to access curriculum and build a positive personal mentoring connection to an adult. Students also explain how being able to rely on relationships with their teachers helps them cope with the many emotional challenges they face as adolescents.","PeriodicalId":83817,"journal":{"name":"New directions for youth development","volume":"2013 137","pages":"27-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/yd.20046","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31359786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of a student support system and the clinical consultant.","authors":"Gil G Noam, Beth Bernstein-Yamashiro","doi":"10.1002/yd.20050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20050","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the fact that student–teacher relationships uncover many clinical issues, such as trauma. It looks at statistics of how prevalent mental health disorders and problems are and then shows that no teacher can handle all of the kinds of problems that will emerge in open relationships with the students. They need to do this work in the context of a productive student support team and system. The article provides a framework using the public health pyramid that can help organize schools. It ends by discussing the role of a consultant to teachers and the school to help with relationship binds, boundary transgressions, and dilemmas.","PeriodicalId":83817,"journal":{"name":"New directions for youth development","volume":"2013 137","pages":"85-98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/yd.20050","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31359790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Working with teachers to develop healthy relationships with students.","authors":"Beth Bernstein-Yamashiro, Gil G Noam","doi":"10.1002/yd.20051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20051","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes activities that can be used with multiple audiences of teachers, administrators, or other caregivers regarding setting boundaries in personal relationships with students. First, participants must think about and discuss relationships that they experienced with their own teachers in the past and determine what aspects of those relationships made an impression on them. In many cases, these connections deeply influenced teachers to join the profession. Second, participants consider dilemmas that they would realistically face with students and decide how they would respond. The dilemmas are derived from actual encounters teachers describe in this volume and elsewhere. In groups, they discuss what the ramifications might be in each circumstance and explore together sound and appropriate responses. Finally, there is an emphasis on the process of strategizing well before these dilemmas arise.","PeriodicalId":83817,"journal":{"name":"New directions for youth development","volume":"2013 137","pages":"99-108"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/yd.20051","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31359791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sheetal Rana, Briana Baumgardner, Ofir Germanic, Randy Graff, Kathy Korum, Megan Mueller, Steve Randall, Tim Simmons, Gina Stokes, Will Xiong, Karen Kolb Peterson
{"title":"From youth worker professional development to organizational change.","authors":"Sheetal Rana, Briana Baumgardner, Ofir Germanic, Randy Graff, Kathy Korum, Megan Mueller, Steve Randall, Tim Simmons, Gina Stokes, Will Xiong, Karen Kolb Peterson","doi":"10.1002/yd.20068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20068","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An ongoing, innovative youth worker professional development is described in this article. This initiative began as youth worker professional development and then transcended to personal and organizational development. It grew from a moral response of Saint Paul Parks and Recreation staff and two faculty members of Youth Studies, University of Minnesota to offer higher-quality services to youth for their healthy development. Its underlying philosophies and ethos included building and sustaining meaningful relationships, cocreating a space for learning and change, becoming a reflecting practitioner, and community organizing. This professional development responded to the participants' interests and needs or to local situations in that moment, that space, and the discussions, and took on different shapes at different times. There were many accomplishments of, challenges and barriers to, and lessons learned from this professional development. </p>","PeriodicalId":83817,"journal":{"name":"New directions for youth development","volume":"2013 139","pages":"27-57"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/yd.20068","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31816374","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"What can local foundations do to support youth service system change efforts?","authors":"Wokie Weah, Marcus Pope","doi":"10.1002/yd.20072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/yd.20072","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Making sound decisions in funding youth-serving organizations can be greatly enhanced by implementing a comprehensive and inclusive learning process that embraces the perspectives of and input from a variety of stakeholders, including program staff and leadership, various community partners, and, most important, the youth. Youthprise effectively applied this collaborative approach to its grant making in 2012 when it funded Saint Paul Parks and Recreation (P&R) to continue and expand its innovations in youth work and diffuse specific strategies into other recreation centers. For a new grant-making intermediary, this was an ideal opportunity to test its priorities with an organization that had a demonstrated commitment to working with young people who were severely marginalized by other youth-serving agencies. Youthprise's relationship with P&R has yielded valuable insight that has informed its work as a grant maker and as an organization focused on systems change. </p>","PeriodicalId":83817,"journal":{"name":"New directions for youth development","volume":"2013 139","pages":"115-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/yd.20072","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"31816378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Barbara Schneider, Michael Broda, Justina Judy, Kri Burkander
{"title":"Pathways to college and STEM careers: enhancing the high school experience.","authors":"Barbara Schneider, Michael Broda, Justina Judy, Kri Burkander","doi":"10.1002/yd.20076","DOIUrl":"10.1002/yd.20076","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With a rising demand for a college degree and an increasingly complicated college search, application, and selection process, there are a number of interventions designed to ease the college-going process for adolescents and their families. One such intervention, the College Ambition Program (CAP), is specifically designed to be a whole-school intervention that comprehensively connects several important aspects of the college-going process and specifically is focused on increasing interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). With many adolescents having interest in STEM careers but lacking knowledge of how to transform these interests into plans, CAP supports students in developing and pursuing their educational and occupational goals. CAP offers students tutoring and mentoring, course-counseling and advising, assistance through the financial aid process, and college experiences through visits to college campuses. In addition to these four core components, CAP is also pursuing how to integrate mobile technology and texting to further provide students with tailored resources and information about the college-going process. This chapter describes the complexities of the college-going process, the components of the CAP intervention, and presents findings that demonstrate that these strategies can increase college-going rates and interest in STEM. The authors highlight the importance of developing a college-going culture within high schools that support the alignment of postsecondary and career goals. </p>","PeriodicalId":83817,"journal":{"name":"New directions for youth development","volume":"2013 140","pages":"9-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/yd.20076","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"32072213","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}