Can working collaboratively with police on community service promote positive youth development?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Adam D. Fine ◽  
Kathleen E Padilla ◽  
Julie Tapp
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
Community Service

Youth Services

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth T. Gershoff
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Youth Services ◽  
Supportive Relationships ◽  
Safe Environment ◽  
School Aged Children ◽  
Training Community ◽  
Skill Building

Youth services are programs, activities, and services aimed at providing a range of opportunities for school-aged children, including mentoring, recreation, education, training, community service, or supervision in a safe environment. The current thrust of youth services is an emphasis on positive youth development. Best practices in youth services include the provision of safety, appropriate supervision, supportive relationships, opportunities to belong, positive social norms, support for efficacy and skill building, and integration of community, school, and family efforts.

Positive youth development: Assessing the interaction between intentional self-regulation and motivation

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. John Geldhof ◽  
Michelle B. Weiner ◽  
Jennifer P. Agans ◽  
Megan Kiely Mueller ◽  
Richard M. Lerner
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Intentional Self Regulation

PROMOTING POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT: A SCHOOL GARDEN NARRATIVE

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-150
Author(s):  
Andile Mji
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
Positive Youth Development ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Development Programme ◽  
School Garden ◽  
Narrative Perspective ◽  
Resultant Effect

This study reports on a programme encapsulating the ideals of positive youth development. Here, a specific narrative of an observed problem, how youths were encouraged to participate in activities and the resultant effect of interactions, is described. Participants were 118 learners, 67 (56.8%) of whom were females. The learners were in Grades 10, 11 and 12 with ages ranging between 16 years and 18 years. The programme learners participated in starting and tending gardens at school. Here, the aim was to determine how exposing learners to an empowering environment resulted in building their competencies. Specifically, this article determined what lessons learners learnt from the development programme and whether attributes of positive youth development could be extracted from learners’ utterances. Qualitative data using open-ended interviews and following a narrative perspective were collected. Findings revealed that learners changed, learned to share and understood what it meant to work with others. Also, their utterings were consistent with competencies illustrating positive youth development. The findings illustrated the importance and value of positive programmes among the youth.

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