Preface
Acknowledgments
1. Community Youth Development: Partnership Creating a Positive
World - Daniel F. Perkins (Pennsylvania State University), Lynne M.
Borden (University of Arizona), Joanne G. Keith (Michigan State
University), Tianna Hoppe-Rooney, & Francisco A. Villarruel
(Michigan State University)
Part I: Individual Issues
2. The African-American Child & Positive Youth Development: A
Journey from Support to Sufficiency - Edna Olive (ROCKET, Inc.)
3. Research Realities & a Vision of Success for Latino Youth
Development - Michael C. Rodriguez (University of Minnesota), Diana
Morrobel (Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center), & Francisco A.
Villarruel (Michigan State University)
4. Positive Youth Development in Urban American Indian Adolescents
- Tamara C. Cheshire & Walter T. Kawamoto (California State
University, Sacramento)
5. Facilitating Positive Development in Immigrant Youth: The Role
of Mentors & Community Organizations - Jennifer G. Roffman, Carola
Suárez-Orozco (Harvard University Graduate School of Education), &
Jean E. Rhodes (University of Massachusetts, Boston)
6. The Role of Gender in Enhancing Program Strategies for Healthy
Youth Development - Jill Denner (ETR Associates) & Amy Griffin
(Michigan State University)
7. Adolescent Sexuality & Positive Youth Development - Stephen T.
Russell (University of California, Davis, & 4-H Center for Youth
Development) & Nikki Sigler Andrews
8. Positive Development for Youth with Disabilities: Lessons
Learned from Two Stories of Success - Esther Onaga, Marsha Carolan,
Cathryn Maddalena, & Francisco A. Villarruel (all of Michigan State
University)
Part II: The Intersection of Youth and Community Programs
9. A Serious Look at Leisure: The Role of Leisure Time & Recreation
Activities in Positive Youth Development - Linda L. Caldwell &
Cheryl K. Baldwin (both of Pennsylvania State University)
10. Working Hand in Hand: Community Youth Development & Career
Development - Theresa M. Ferrari (Ohio State University)
11. Workforce & Youth Development for Court-Involved Youth:
Barriers & Promising Approaches - David Brown, Edward DeJesus,
Sarah Maxwell, & Vincent Schiraldi
12. The Character of Moral Communities: A Community Youth
Development Approach to Enhancing Character Development - Karen L.
Pace (Michigan State University)
13. Youth Civic Development: A Logical Next Step in Community Youth
Development - Constance Flanagan & Beth Van Horn (both of
Pennsylvania State University)
14. Giving Youth a Voice in Their Own Community & Personal
Development: Strategies & Impacts of Bringing Youth to the Table -
Melissa S. Quon Huber (Michigan State University), Jeff Frommeyer,
Amy Weisenbach, and Jennifer Sazama
Part III: Youth Professionals, Communities, and Youth
15. Key Elements of Community Youth Development Programs - Daniel
F. Perkins (Pennsylvania State University) & Lynne M. Borden
(University of Arizona)
16. Positive Youth Development: The Role of Competence - Angela J.
Huebner (Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University)
17. Adults Who Make a Difference: Identifying the Skills &
Characteristics of Successful Youth Workers - Nicole Yohalem (The
Forum for Youth Investment)
18. The Essential Youth Worker: Supports & Opportunities for
Professional Success - Joyce A. Walker (University of
Minnesota)
19. Community Youth Development: Youth Voice & Activism - Francisco
A. Villarruel (Michigan State University), Daniel F. Perkins
(Pennsylvania State University), Lynne M. Borden (University of
Arizona), & Joanne G. Keith (Michigan State University)
Author Index
Subject Index
About the Contributors
Francisco A. Villarruel (Ph.D., 1990, University of Wisconsin,
Madison) is an Associate Professor of Family & Child Ecology at
Michigan State University and a Research Associate with the
Institute for Children, Youth, and Families, a university-wide
research and outreach unit promoting positive development of
children, youth, and families in communities through the
application of the scholarly resources of Michigan State. He is
affiliated with the Julian Samora Research Institute, which
generates applies knowledge to serve the needs of Latino
communities in the Midwest. Since joining Michigan State in 1992,
Dr. Villarruel has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in
both the Community Services and Child Development programs. His
research focus is on developmental contextualism, Latino youth and
families, and positive youth development.
Daniel F. Perkins (Ph.D., 1995, Michigan State University) is an
Associate Professor and Extension Specialist within the
Agricultural and Extension Education Program of the Pennsylvania
State University. Prior to coming to Penn State in 2000, he worked
in the Family and Child Ecology Department at Michigan State and
the Family, Youth, and Community Sciences Program of the University
of Florida. His research area is family and youth resiliency and
policy, with a focus on strengthening the capacity of families,
youth, and communities to be partners in building strong families,
fostering positive youth development, and creating caring, safe,
and productive communities.
Lynne M. Borden (Ph.D., 1997, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign) is Associate Professor and Extension Specialist
in the Division of Family Studies and Human Development at the
University of Arizona in Tucson. Dr. Borden′s scholarly interests
focus on the contribution and the relationship between multiple
contexts such as structured out-of-school programs, schools,
families and communities on positive development of young people.
She worked as an elementary school teacher and middle school
counselor before returning to academia to focus on issues relating
to children, youth, and families. Since returning to academia, she
has published over 25 refereed journal articles, as well as
chapters for handbooks and encyclopedias of human ecology and
developmental psychology.
Joanne G. Keith (Ph.D., 1977, Michigan State University) is a
Professor and Extension Specialist in the Department of Family and
Child Ecology at Michigan State University, where she has taught
since 1977. Her appointment includes scholarship through research,
teaching, and outreach. She has integrated these areas in a variety
of state, national, and international professional experiences. Her
current areas of outreach and research include: an assets-based
approach to positive youth development; indicators of the status
and demographic trends related to children, youth, and families at
the national, state, county, and community levels; community
collaborations on behalf of children, youth, and their families;
and youth and families from an international perspective. Her
interests include middle childhood, early and later adolescence,
community youth development, assets/strengths-based approaches to
youth development, and generations and family influences. She
regularly teaches a graduate seminar, Positive Youth Development:
An Asset-based Approach.
"I am highly enthusiastic about this work….this volume will be a
watershed event in the field of applied developmental science (ADS)
generally and, more specifically, in the study and enhancement of
youth development….The editors of this book are among the premier
ADS scholars in the youth development field. Indeed, their
leadership has been, I would guess, the reason they have been able
to assemble such a "star-studded" group of contributors to this
project."
*Richard M. Lerner*
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