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Author : Steve Seigel
Publisher : CSIS
ISBN 13 : 9780892064915
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (649 download)
Download or read book Engaging Youth to Build Safer Communities written by Steve Seigel and published by CSIS. This book was released on 2006 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John A. Calhoun
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9780997292244
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (922 download)
Download or read book Policy Walking written by John A. Calhoun and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2016-05-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy Walking: Lighting Paths to Safer Communities, Stronger Families & Thriving Youth by author, speaker, and policy advocate John A. Calhoun is the moving culmination of a lifelong career spent restoring fragile communities, pulling youth back from the edge, supporting vulnerable children and their families, and helping build communities that don't produce crime. Heartwarming and inspiring, Policy Walking weaves the wisdom of years on the path with stories and profiles of compelling courageous, and memorable "walkers" met along the way. Calhoun not only chronicles his own "policy walk," but also highlights the pressing policy issues confronting communities today and the dedicated individuals who walk with those policies in communities all across the country. With insights into leadership and key lessons learned, Calhoun shares human stories of the creative preventative programs and approaches that strengthen communities, families, and youth. A must-read for social science, criminal justice, and theology students, those in the midst of this important work at all levels will see themselves in the pages and raw emotion of this both timely and timeless book. This practical guide will leave readers inspired, motivated, and encouraged to start their walk, stay on the path, and follow the guiding light of this illuminating collection of hope and transformation.TABLE OF CONTENTSPreface - Do We Know What Sets Us On Our Path?Introduction - Why I Wrote this Book Chapter 1 - "Hey, Loved One"Chapter 2 - Nurse-Family Partnership: Changing Futures Two at a TimeChapter 3 - From Trauma to Triumph: Becoming a Man and Working on WomanhoodChapter 4 - The Overlooked Partner: Youth as Resources Chapter 5 - Aiming Policy at Reducing Gun Violence: It Starts Closest to the PainChapter 6 - Skills + Service + Leadership + Love = YouthBuild's Stunning SuccessChapter 7 - Community Renewal: Changing Norms & Building Resilient CommunitiesChapter 8 - Faith in ActionChapter 9 - Community Trust and the "New" PolicingChapter 10 - Welcome Home? The Challenges of Jail to JobChapter 11 - Comprehensive Strategies: All are Affected, All Must Play a PartChapter 12 - Do We Really Know the Children? The Case for Data SharingChapter 13 - Restorer of the Streets: 8 Lessons from My Policy WalkChapter 14 - LeadershipChapter 15 - Engaging the Philanthropic and Business Communities as PartnersChapter 16 - Glossary of the Walk: The Words that Keep Us on the PathChapter 17 - Pain Must Not Be WastedAcknowledgementsAbout the Author
Author : Andrea Carlson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781596860032
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Community Works written by Andrea Carlson and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A program of the Teens, Crime, and the Community (TCC) initiative that provides instructors with interactive, topical lessons to use with young people. The program emphasizes practical crime prevention knowledge, community resource people, and service learning projects.
Author : Abigail A. Fagan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190299215
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Communities That Care written by Abigail A. Fagan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars and policymakers increasingly call for evidence-based, prevention-oriented, and community-driven approaches to improve public health and reduce youth crime, substance use, and related problems. However, few functional models exist. In Communities that Care, four leading experts on prevention describe one such system to illustrate how communities effectively engage in prevention activities. Communities That Care (CTC) is a coalition-based prevention system implemented successfully in dozens of communities across the world that promotes healthy development and reduces crime rates for youth. Drawing on literature from criminology, community psychology, and prevention science this book describes the conditions and actions necessary for effective community-based prevention. The authors illustrate how effective community-based prevention can be undertaken by describing how the CTC prevention system has been developed, implemented, evaluated, and disseminated across the U.S. and internationally. Communities that Care shares invaluable lessons about the implementation and evaluation of community-level interventions and establishes a set of best practices for anyone seeking to engage in and/or evaluate effective prevention efforts.
Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309072751
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Community Programs to Promote Youth Development written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-02-12 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities have long been thought to play a key role in the lives of adolescents. But what do we know about the role of such programs for today's adolescents? How can we ensure that programs are designed to successfully meet young people's developmental needs and help them become healthy, happy, and productive adults? Community Programs to Promote Youth Development explores these questions, focusing on essential elements of adolescent well-being and healthy development. It offers recommendations for policy, practice, and research to ensure that programs are well designed to meet young people's developmental needs. The book also discusses the features of programs that can contribute to a successful transition from adolescence to adulthood. It examines what we know about the current landscape of youth development programs for America's youth, as well as how these programs are meeting their diverse needs. Recognizing the importance of adolescence as a period of transition to adulthood, Community Programs to Promote Youth Development offers authoritative guidance to policy makers, practitioners, researchers, and other key stakeholders on the role of youth development programs to promote the healthy development and well-being of the nation's youth.
Author : United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Task Force on Black and Minority Health
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Black & Minority Health written by United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Task Force on Black and Minority Health and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Youth For Safer Communities Project report written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Youth for Safer Communities project was initiated by the Regional Multicultural Youth Council (RMYC) in response to growing incidents of youth crime and violence in the region. With financial support from the National Crime Prevention Program, the Aboriginal Healing Foundation (AHF), the William Creighton Youth Services, the Multicultural Association of Northwestern Ontario (MANWO), and local fundraising efforts, the RMYC launched a campaign to create safer communities. The project was launched during a meeting sponsored by the Ontario’s Child and Family Service Advocacy and Voices for Children at the Multicultural Youth Centre on November 14, 2003. Twenty-two youths representing urban centres and surrounding First Nations communities met in Thunder Bay to discuss current trends in youth crime and violence across Northwestern Ontario, and what can be done to engage children and youth as part of the solution... "--pub. website.
Author : National Council on Crime and Delinquency
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Guide for Implementing the Comprehensive Strategy for Serious, Violent, and Chronic Juvenile Offenders written by National Council on Crime and Delinquency and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nancy Erbstein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Toward Making Good on All Youth written by Nancy Erbstein and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Youth who are 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 (Gambone, Yu, et al. 2004). Like many community youth development efforts, the REACH Youth Program called upon grantees to address the needs of all youth. While grantees were selected to reflect the diversity of communities in the region and were encouraged to recruit youth reflecting the diversity within those communities, they were not asked in particular to reach out to their most vulnerable youth populations. Across REACH, involvement of previously un/underengaged youth was limited, albeit with important variation across places and times. Grantees that did engage such youth over time offer important lessons about how to create the types of safe, supportive and meaningful settings that promoted young people's ongoing participation and leadership. Key elements of their success included: (1) Intentionality and Commitment; (2) Local Knowledge of Vulnerable Populations; (3) Adult Allies with Key Capacities; (4) Meaningful Focus; (5) Resources for Intensive Outreach, Relationship-building and Youth Support; and (6) Continuity of Key Adults. This brief describes each of these elements and offers some overarching lessons learned about engaging vulnerable youth populations in community youth development. Examples are drawn from two grantees that tapped the knowledge and insights of underrepresented youth over an extended period of time. [This paper was written with Lisceth Cruz Carrasco and David Campbell.].
Author : David Osher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781682532638
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools written by David Osher and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools brings together the collective wisdom of more than thirty experts from a variety of fields to show how school leaders can create communities that support the social, emotional, and academic needs of all students. It offers an essential guide for making sense of the myriad frameworks, resources, and tools available to create a continuous improvement system. Filled with recommendations gleaned from research and ongoing work in every US state and territory, this book is a critical resource for understanding and adopting evidence-based practices and making programmatic decisions to ensure the ideal conditions for learning, growth, and development. "Creating Safe, Equitable, Engaging Schools is an essential read for teachers, principals, district leaders, and organizations that work with schools to create challenging and supportive environments for all students." --Paul Cruz, superintendent, Austin Independent School District "Osher and colleagues not only connect the dots between big ideas--deeper learning, trauma, social and emotional learning, evidence-based programs, comprehensive community planning--but they model the continuous improvement approach in the way ideas are ordered across and within the chapters. This is a masterful volume: comprehensive, accessible, and way overdue." --Karen J. Pittman, cofounder, president and CEO, The Forum for Youth Investment "This book provides a very usable road map for creating safe, healthy, equitable, and caring schools. The editors and contributors successfully integrate research, practice, and policy to help educators develop and implement effective and sustainable models to nurture caring schools that all children and educators deserve." --Mark T. Greenberg, Bennett Chair of Prevention Research, Pennsylvania State University David Osher is vice president and an institute fellow at American Institutes for Research. Deborah Moroney is a managing director at American Institutes for Research and is director of the youth development and supportive learning environments practice area. Sandra Williamson is a vice president for policy, practice, and systems change at American Institutes for Research.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and related agencies appropriations for 1989 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Olatokunbo S. Fashola
Publisher : Corwin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780761978787
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (787 download)
Download or read book Building Effective Afterschool Programs written by Olatokunbo S. Fashola and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through a comprehensive review of various afterschool programs across the United States, this resource provides a practical overview of the research and best practices that can be easily adapted and applied in the development of highly effective afterschool programs. chapters focus on: (1) "Why Afterschool Programs?" (benefits, challenges, and functions, research methodology, types of programs, and program evaluation); (2) "Language Arts Afterschool Programs" (e.g., extended-day tutoring and the Coca-Cola Valued Youth Program); (3) "Enrichment Afterschool Programs" (e.g., Hands On Science Outreach and the Imaginitis Learning System); (4) "Tutoring Programs to Improve Reading and Study Skills Programs" (e.g., Book Buddies and Early Identification Programs); (5) "Community-Based Afterschool Programs" (e.g., Big Brothers Big Sisters of America and Police Athletic League); (6) "How to Create an Afterschool Program: From Conception to Implementation" (e.g., assessing the situation, creating the components, and training the service providers); (7) "Evaluation" (e.g., why evaluation is important, effective evaluations, and creating a solid evaluation infrastructure); and (8) "Conclusions and Implications: What Works" (patterns of success among the programs and barriers to participation). A list of resources is included. (Contains 143 references.) (SM)
Author : Ross VeLure Roholt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118825241
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (188 download)
Download or read book Transforming Youth Serving Organizations to Support Healthy Youth Development written by Ross VeLure Roholt and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume tells the story of major organizational change efforts at one municipal youth-serving organization to better support healthy youth development system wide. Presenting the viewpoints of young people, frontline staff, supervisors, managers, and the director, it reviews how the organization developed and transformed. Each article then describes the different strategies and tactics used to support organizational transformation. Learn: How a youth work professional development strategy ended up as an organizational development and change strategy How the partnership with a university expanded to include community-based research and evaluation to support youth program development and improvement within the organization. How youth advice structures can support high-quality youth programming and, by extension, improvements in organizational supports for quality youth programs How partnerships with other organizations supported ongoing adaptation of the organization to better address youth needs This is the 139th volume of New Directions for Youth Development, the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series dedicated to bringing together everyone concerned with helping young people, including scholars, practitioners, and people from different disciplines and professions.
Author : Kenda Creasy Dean
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802871933
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book How Youth Ministry Can Change Theological Education - If We Let It written by Kenda Creasy Dean and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1993, forty-nine theological seminaries have created opportunities for high school students to participate in on-campus High School Theology Programs (HSTPs) that invite them to engage in serious biblical and theological study. Many of the young people who take part in these programs go on to become pastoral or lay leaders in their churches. What has made these programs so successful -- especially given the well-documented "crisis of faith" among young people today? In this book thirteen contributors -- many of whom have created or led one of these innovative theology programs -- investigate answers to this question. They examine the pedagogical practices the HSTPs have in common and explore how they are contributing to the leadership of the church. They then show how the lessons gleaned from these successful programs can help churches, denominations, and seminaries reimagine both theological education and youth ministry.
Author : Frederick D. Barton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538113015
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Peace Works written by Frederick D. Barton and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bosnia, Rwanda, Haiti, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria - a quarter-century of stumbles in America’s pursuit of a more peaceful and just world. American military interventions have cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars, yet we rarely manage to enact positive and sustainable change. In Peace Works: America's Unifying Role in a Turbulent World, ambassador and global conflict leader Rick Barton uses a mix of stories, history, and analysis for a transformative approach to foreign affairs and offers concrete and attainable solutions for the future. Drawing on his lifetime of experience as a diplomat, foreign policy expert, and State Department advisor, Rick Barton grapples with the fact that the U.S. is strategically positioned and morally obligated to defuse international conflicts, but often inadvertently escalates conflicts instead. Guided by the need to find solutions that will yield tangible results, Barton does a deep analysis of our last several interventions and discusses why they failed and how they could have succeeded. He outlines a few key directives in his foreign policy strategy: remain transparent with the American public, act as a catalyzing (not colonizing!) force, and engage local partners. But above all else, he insists that the U.S. must maintain a focus on people. Since a country’s greatest resource is often the ingenuity of its local citizens, it is counterproductive to ignore them while planning an intervention. By anchoring each chapter to a story from a specific conflict zone, Barton is able to discuss opportunities pursued and missed, areas for improvement, and policy recommendations. This balance between storytelling and concrete policy suggestions both humanizes distant stories of foreign crises, and provides going-forward solutions for desperate situations. The book begins and ends in Syria – the ultimate failure of our current approach to foreign policy, and with devastating consequences.
Author : Stephanie Schwartz
Publisher : US Institute of Peace Press
ISBN 13 : 1601270496
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Youth and Post-conflict Reconstruction written by Stephanie Schwartz and published by US Institute of Peace Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Youth and Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Agents of Change, Stephanie Schwartz goes beyond these highly publicized cases and examines the roles of the broader youth population in post-conflict scenarios, taking on the complex task of distinguishing between the legal and societal labels of "child," "youth," and "adult."
Author : Sara Skott
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100061509X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Homicide written by Sara Skott and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homicide: Towards a Deeper Understanding offers an in-depth analysis into the phenomenon of homicide, examining different types of homicide and how these types have changed over time. Based on original analysis on Scottish data, this book draws upon an international body of research to contextualize the findings in a global setting, filling an important gap in the homicide literature pertaining to the relationship between trends in homicide and violence. Examining homicide from gendered as well as Gothic perspectives, this book also relates homicide to novel, critical theory. The book covers a thorough description of different types of homicide, including sexual homicide, and provides an explorative approach to the identification of homicide subtypes. The book also explores how these findings relate to current homicide theory, and proposes a new theoretical framework to gain a deeper understanding of this crime. The main argument of the book is that if homicide and its relationship to wider violence is to be fully understood, theoretically as well as empirically, this crime needs to be disaggregated in a way that reflects the underlying data. Overall, this book therefore fills an important gap in criminological literature, providing an in-depth understanding of one of the most serious violent crimes.
