Social Capital and Youth Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 4181-4192
Author(s):  
Chong S.T.
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Youth Development

Social Capital

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvia Domínguez
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Collective Efficacy ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Service Organizations ◽  
High Risk Behavior ◽  
Social Service Organizations ◽  
Development Models ◽  
Capital Growth ◽  
Human And Social Capital ◽  
Mental And Physical Health

In social work, social capital is linked to both the prevention and treatment of mental and physical health. This concept has also been incorporated in the development of empowering interventions with marginalized minorities. The capacity-based and the youth development models of intervention, both call on social service organizations to work interdependently around meeting the needs for the human and social capital growth of youth (Morrison, Alcorn, & Nelums 1997). Social capital is also a feature of empowering interventions in neighborhoods and community development, as is collective efficacy, which is a measure of working trust that exists among residents and has been popularized as a way to stop youth high-risk behavior.

The Role of Social Capital in Youth Development: The Case of “I Have a Dream” Programs

1999 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-343 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Kahne ◽  
Kim Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Graduation Rates ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Social Trust ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Project Coordinator ◽  
Strategy Model

This paper presents findings from a 2 ½-year study that focused primarily on two “I Have a Dream” (IHAD) programs. To better comprehend the implications of bringing this youth development strategy model to scale, we also collected more limited interview, focus group, and student performance data from the 10 other IHAD sites in Chicago. Each IHAD sponsor “adopts” an entire sixth grade class and together with a project coordinator provides these students long-term financial, academic, and social support with the hope that they will graduate from high school and attend college. Because IHAD sponsors “adopted” all of the sixth graders at a given school, we compared their graduation rate with the graduation rates of students who were in the sixth grade at the school the previous year. We found that the two IHAD programs were enormously successful. Their graduation rates (71% and 69%) were roughly twice those of their respective comparison groups (37% and 34%). This study examines the programmatic features of IHAD that appear most responsible for its success and the implications for policy and practice. From a theoretical standpoint, our analysis of these cases focuses on the significance of differing forms of social capital (social trust, social networks, and social norms with effective sanctions) in enabling meaningful support of youth in inner-city contexts.

scholarly journals The Accordion Effect: Is Quality in Afterschool Getting the Squeeze?

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-Apr ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Fusco ◽  
Anne Lawrence ◽  
Susan Matloff-Nieves ◽  
Esteban Ramos
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Youth Work ◽  
Afterschool Programs ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Accordion Effect ◽  
Quality Programming ◽  
The Impact

Community-based afterschool programs remain places that support youth development. However, in most places quality is getting the squeeze, making it more difficult to meet the growing needs of youth and parents. This article describes the impact of increased external and regulatory pressures that have taken hold at a time of reduced financial and social capital. In this article, we name the factors that are creating what we call The Accordion Effect and describe its ‘squeezing’ impact on quality programming. We conclude with recommendations for reclaiming quality youth work, a practice that we believe must remain holistic and emergent.

scholarly journals Family Social Capital and Delinquent Behavior in the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 178
Author(s):  
John P. Hoffmann ◽  
Jared D. Thorpe ◽  
Mikaela J. Dufur
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Delinquent Behavior ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Negative Binomial Regression ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Family Social Capital ◽  
Binomial Regression

Research suggests that juvenile delinquency has a number of deleterious effects on adolescents’ lives. A promising way to discourage delinquent behavior is by increasing social capital, which involves social connections adolescents have to other actors and pro-social norms that flow through these networks. The primary source of social capital is one’s family members, but no studies to date have focused directly on the effects of family social capital on delinquent behavior in the United Kingdom (U.K.). We use data from the U.K. Millennium Cohort Study (MCS, 2015–2016; n = 11,352) to assess different sources of family social capital among youth. The results of negative binomial regression models indicate that certain types of family social capital, including parental supervision, not fighting with parents, and talking to parents when youth are worried, are associated with less delinquent behavior, even after adjusting for covariates such as family structure, household income, and peer behaviors. The results add to the empirical foundation that supports family social capital’s attenuating effects on youth misbehaviors and increases confidence in the utility of social capital to serve as a generally applicable theory of youth development and behaviors.

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