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Showing 1 to 20 of 80 for “"Positive Youth Development"”.
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Participation in SOS Outreach: a positive youth development program
… time burdened by physical, emotional and social developmental challenges. However, many extracurricular programs now focus on fostering Positive Youth Development (PYD) with a primary goal of helping youth develop positive life skills and positive trajectories. Many of these programs emphasize …
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Positive Youth Development in Tanzanian Youth: Utility of the Developmental Assets Approach
… and practitioners are increasingly interested in positive youth development (PYD), an approach that emphasizes the competencies, strengths, and responsibilities of youth from all backgrounds. This paradigm may be especially useful in research with international youth given the paucity of research …
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Positive Youth Development Among Latino/a Youth in a Service Learning Program
… of a service-learning program to cultivate positive developmental strengths among Latino/a youth participating in a school-based program in Los Angles County. Youth (N=112) in grades 5–12, who were primarily from low SES backgrounds, participated in an environmental and humanitarian …
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Pathways to Positive Youth Development in African Contexts: The Role of Contribution
… generally considered an emergent outcome of positive youth development (PYD) in the Lerner and Lerner Five Cs model of PYD is described as a commitment by youth to give back to the world around them in personally meaningful ways following sufficient development of the five Cs - competence, …
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Teamwork and leadership : competitive youth soccer as a context for positive youth development
… processes and interactions that characterized positive developmental experiences in sport. A highly competitive and reputable U-17 girls' soccer team was chosen for the study through purposeful sampling, providing an information rich case from which data could be derived (Patton, 2002). …
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SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN STAFF AND YOUTH IN A PHYSICAL ACTIVITY-BASED POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Positive youth development (PYD) programs offer enriching experiences that help young people discover and develop skills that will help them become productive, successful, and healthy adults (Damon, 2004; Lerner, von Eye, Lerner, & Lewin-Bizan, 2009). The social context within PYD programs serves …
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The Potential of Green Care Interventions to Promote Positive Youth Development with a One Health Lens
… three distinct bodies of knowledge: Green Care, Positive Youth Development (PYD), and One Health. Green Care is an organizing construct for various interventions that use nature as a framework. I suggest that a nature-based program which incorporates Animal-assisted and horticulture interventions …
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Photo Elicitation as a Research Method to Assess Adolescent Girls’ Perceptions of the Climate in a Positive Youth Development Program
… girls’ perceptions of the climate in a positive youth development/physical activity program called Strong Girls. Strong Girls pairs college female students as mentors with female middle school students. The two-hour weekly program takes place on a college campus, and is built around …
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Relative age effects: exploring possible solutions and the relationships between relative age, sport participation, education, and indicators of positive youth development
Relative age occurs when youth are placed into age groups in sport and education. Relative Age Effects (RAE) indicate that being born closer to the cutoff date holds an advantage in sport and academic outcomes. Study 1 explores what effects relative age has on educational achievement, participation …
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Case study of perceived positive youth development inputs and outcomes in 4-H dog programs as identified by 4-H members, parents, leaders and agents
… research that produces empirical data on positive youth development (PYD) frameworks, as well as PYD impacts and roles amongst human-animal interactions (HAI) and youth. This study used inputs and outcomes from the 4-H Formula for Success to identify and describe components of the 4-H dog …
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Exploring youth participation in community development organisations in the Western Cape
The aim of the study was to explore youth participation in Community Development Organisations and its implications for positive youth development from the perspective of a select sample of Youth in the Western Cape. A purposive sample of 18 youth respondents between the ages (14-35) from five …
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Educational Farms as Tools for Advancing Youth Well-Being in Underrepresented Food Desert Communities
… challenge. This issue disproportionately impacts youth during critical developmental stages, prompting communities to explore innovative solutions such as community gardens and educational farms. This qualitative case study examined how educational youth farms can serve as tools for addressing …
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Resisting Racial Oppression: Ethnic Identity & Critical Consciousness as Pathways to Thriving for Young Black, Indigenous, and People of Color
… historically understudied as agents of their own positive development within the context of racial oppression (García Coll et al., 1996). This explanatory sequential mixed-method study examined how 393 BIPOC-identifying youth (ages 18-25) thrive amid racial oppression. Survey results initially …
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Exploring how youth experience and perceive peer social support at a holistic youth development programme in the Western Cape: the Chrysalis academy
In this study, the main goal was to explore youth experiences and perceptions of peer social support in the Western Cape region of South Africa at the Chrysalis Academy youth programme. The youth in the Western Cape face many obstacles to their development such as gangsterism, drugs, unemployment, …
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Principal Motives of Positive Youth-Adult Relationships: A Model for Identifying the Motives of Adult Volunteers and Youth-Adult Relationships in Physical Activity-Based Youth Development Programs
The field of positive youth development has evolved in response to the growing effort to provide youth with safe and healthful activities during leisure time. Physical activity-based youth development programs (PA-based YDPs) utilize a range of individual and team sports and physical activities as …
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Assessing the influence of preparation and follow-up on student outcomes associated with environmental education field trips
… environmental literacy, 21st century skills, positive youth development, satisfaction, and self-reported behavior change. Surveys with both students and their school teachers who attended over 300 EE programs reveal that both pre-trip preparation, especially concerning logistics, and post-trip …
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Developing Active and Engaged Youth Citizens: An Examination of Ethical Factors, Demographics, and Problem-Solving Disposition
Thriving youth have the capacity to contribute to greater society and develop independence, mastery, generosity, and a sense of belonging. This development is frequently enhanced through youth programming as ability expansion rather than capacity for authority and community engagement. In Virginia …
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"""A mother's gotta' do what she can"": neighborhood influences on the parenting strategies of mothers raising preadolescent children in high-risk environments"
… low resource neighborhoods that promote their positive youth development. Adopting a family resilience approach and utilizing multiple qualitative methods (interviews, photos, drawings, neighborhood observations) and demographic data, I argue that parenting strategies are responses to …
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