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Workforce development for older youth

New Directions for Youth Development, 2006
AbstractRecent research and evaluation of youth development and employment programs suggests that the demands of the knowledge economy and the emerging digital economy are causing employers to expect higher levels of skills from older youth.
David E, Brown, Mala B, Thakur
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Positive Youth Development

MCN, The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing, 2004
This article outlines several preventive health strategies for reducing the health risks of homeless youth related to emotional distress, alcohol and other drug use/abuse, risky sex, and victimization, all of which are well documented as major health risks for homeless youth living on the street.
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Youth organizing: From youth development to school reform

New Directions for Youth Development, 2008
AbstractOver the past twenty years, youth organizing has grown across the country. Through organizing, young people identify issues of concern and mobilize their peers to build action campaigns to achieve their objectives. Youth organizing has been appreciated for its contributions to youth and community development. The authors use two case studies to
Mark R, Warren, Meredith, Mira, Thomas, Nikundiwe   +2 more
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Youths and Communities: Toward Comprehensive Strategies for Youth Development

Social Work, 1997
Society's conventional response to problems of young people--such as teenage pregnancy, school dropout, substance abuse, juvenile delinquency, and violence--is to target a specific problem and develop intervention or prevention programs for individuals who manifest the problem or are at high risk of it.
W H, Barton, M, Watkins, R, Jarjoura
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Youth Social Entrepreneurship as Youth Development for All Youth

2019
Abstract This chapter reviews the universal elements of positive youth development; that is, explicating the basic foundations of healthy development that are important for all youth, regardless of context or background. Developmental psychology serves as a primary source for the perspectives presented here.
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Listening to Youth: Reflections on the Effect of a Youth Development Program

Health Promotion Practice, 2008
To identify key elements that contribute to the effectiveness of a youth development program, interviews were conducted with 35 former Chicago Youth Programs (CYP) participants who remained in the program until age 18 years and went on to attend college, and 25 participants who left the program (and are currently older than age 18).
Robin E, Kalish, Bridget, Voigt, Afsaneh, Rahimian, Joseph, Dicara, Karen, Sheehan   +4 more
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Career Development for Youth with Autism

Journal of Career Development, 1987
The perception of a person's value in society is, in large measure, determined by the individual's earning power and the status of the job which that person holds. Sadly, most autistic and other persons with severe handicaps are not only unemployed but also spend most of their lives in segregated settings, isolated from society's mainstream, and ...
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Riverdale youth : a guide to youth development

2011
The definition of youth is the early period of anything; well in this case I am speaking about the lives of young people less than the age of nineteen. In today's society, adults are complaining about the behaviors of the youth in their communities.
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YOUTH, PERMISSIVENESS, AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT

Pediatrics, 1972
As unrest grows in our social scene, as institutions undergo change, as innovations revolutionize everyday living, there is among many a longing to return to affirmations of older and simpler virtues. Their discontent often is expressed in a condemnation of youthful rebellion and, by extension, of youth and child care practices. It tends to focus upon "
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MUSSORGSKY'S YOUTH AND EARLY DEVELOPMENT

Journal of the Royal Musical Association, 1879
The history of musical England's attitude to Mussorgsky's music can be summed up simply by mentioning two landmarks. In 1905 appeared the sixth volume of the Oxford History of Music, devoted to the Romantic period, by Dannreuther, who dismissed Mussorgsky's music with these words, “wilfully eccentric and barbarously ugly,” without a word of ...
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