Rural Ethnic Minority Youth and Families in the United States
Rural Ethnic Minority Youth and Families in the United States

Author: Lisa J. Crockett

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-11-03

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 3319209760

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This book explores the risk and protective factors of rural life and minority status for youth and their families. It provides innovative perspectives on well-documented developmental challenges (e.g., poverty and lack of resources) as well as insights into the benefits of familial and cultural strengths. Coverage includes recent theories in child development, empirical studies of rural minority populations, and leading-edge interventions for urgent issues. The volume presents a spectrum of opportunities for understanding and providing services for youth in the United States through the lens of a diverse collection of ethnic minority experiences in rural settings. Topics featured in this volume include: Theoretical models focused on the intersection of ethnicity and rural settings. Family processes, child care, and early schooling in rural minority families. Promising strategies for conducting research with rural minority families. Strengths-based educational interventions in rural settings. Promoting supportive contexts for minority youth in low-resource rural communities. Rural Ethnic Minority Youth and Families in the United States is a valuable resource for researchers and professors, clinicians and related professionals and graduate students across such disciplines as clinical child, school and developmental psychology, family studies, social work and public health.

African American Girls
African American Girls

Author: Faye Z. Belgrave

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-07-24

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 144190090X

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Over the past 15 years, I have had the opportunityto conduct research and interv- tion programming with African American girls. Several of my graduate students, mostly African American women, pursuing their doctorates in psychology worked closely with me in this work. We have conducted hundreds of literature reviews, read many journal articles and reports, published many papers, and engaged over a thousand African American adolescent girls in a cultural curriculum speci?cally designed for them. This book was written to summarize this work and was c- ceived to be an educational resource for diverse audiences who work with African American girls including: (1) researchers who conduct research and intervention programming; (2) professionals who work with African American adolescent girls such as teachers, social workers, prevention specialists, therapists and counselors, and mental health workers; and (3) a general audience of persons with an interest in African American adolescent female’s well-being and developmentsuch as parents, community leaders, girl’s group leaders (i. e. , Girl Scout leaders), and church and spiritual leaders. This book is both descriptive and practical. Each chapter covers the most current literature on African American adolescent girls, and reviews and discusses ways in which they are similar to and unique from girls in other ethnic groups and from African American boys. An understanding of who they are and how they function allows us to make recommendations about ways to support these girls and to re- cus and/or strengthen already positive attributes.

Developmental Assets and Asset-Building Communities
Developmental Assets and Asset-Building Communities

Author: Richard M. Lerner

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1461500915

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Developmental Assets and Asset-Building Communities examines the relationships of developmental assets to other approaches and bodies of work. It raises challenges about the asset-building approach and offers recommendations for how this approach can be strengthened and broadened in impact and research. In doing so, this book extends the scholarly base for the understanding of the character and scope of the systemic relation between young people's healthy development and the nature of developmentally attentive communities. The chapters in this volume present evidence that asset-building communities both promote and are promoted by positive youth development, a bi-directional, systemic linkage that - consistent with developmental systems theory - further civil society by building relationship and intergenerational places within a community that are united in attending to the developmental needs of children and adolescents.

African-American Adolescents in the Urban Community
African-American Adolescents in the Urban Community

Author: Judith Rozie-Battle

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-02

Total Pages: 114

ISBN-13: 1317788052

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Become a more effective social worker with this outstanding volume on inner-city urban youth! African-American Adolescents in the Urban Community: Social Services Policy and Practice Interventions examines contemporary issues confronting African-American youth. It highlights key areas such as health, education, the criminal justice system, and youth development strategies. An essential overview of the status of urban African-American youth for students, professionals working with this important population, and policymakers, this vital book proposes policy and programming considerations for today and for the future.African-American Adolescents in the Urban Community is a one-stop view of: ways to help African-American youth experience responsibility and community involvement health concerns of this population, including teen pregnancy, alcohol and drug addiction, and limited access to health care the challenges that lie ahead for African-American girls, including crime, poverty, poor self-esteem, and peer pressure ways to help teenage fathers meet their financial and emotional obligations to their families police and prosecutorial policies that need to be examined and challenged to end the perception of a racially unjust system and much more

A Different Voice
A Different Voice

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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This study examines how theoretical understandings of positive youth development inform our definitions and interpretations of developmental assets for African American girls. Positive youth development (PYD) is a theoretical framework that uses an ecological and strength-based approach to understanding positive characteristics and support mechanisms for youth. The Five C's which are confidence, competence, connection, caring, and character, is the most widely used model in the PYD literature. As the theoretical base for various youth programming, the Five C's are often studied through organized activities and prevention programs. However, many of these programs and organized activities fail to contextualize the cultural and sociopolitical realities of minority youth like African American girls, and are missing opportunities to build on cultural assets that may help promote resiliency and PYD. Consequently, the present study adds triple quandary theory, to the Five C's model. Triple quandary theory is a developmental theory for African American youth predicated on three cultural realms of experience: the Afro-cultural, mainstream, and minority realm. Through combining the Five C's and triple quandary theory, I analyzed positive developmental assets as they were cultivated, developed, and displayed in an in-school youth participatory action program. This program and research project was collaboratively directed by the suggestions and interests of twelve African American adolescent girls. I designed and implemented this program one day a week, for three semesters, in a 7-12 grade charter school. Instrumental case study design was used to focus on assessing the skills and characteristics fostered through the youth participatory action research project; the actual research design that the girls undertook was secondary. Assets that were developed, cultivated, and displayed by the girls were confidence, competence in research skills, positive Black identity, positive connections with peers and adults, social and cognitive competence, respect, and initiative. Through the use of triple quandary theory, the definitions and manifestations of the Five C's expanded to include the socio-political realities of African American girls.

Individual and Community Factors Associated with Thriving Among African American Adolescents in the Context of Stressors
Individual and Community Factors Associated with Thriving Among African American Adolescents in the Context of Stressors

Author: Adia Shani Gooden

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13:

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This dissertation used the transactional-ecological framework along with principles from positive youth development literature to examine naturally occurring individual and contextual factors that promote thriving among African American adolescents. Specifically, this study examined how religiosity, religious support, racial identity, and communalism relate to thriving. This study also assessed the negative influence of stressors on thriving in order to understand how thriving manifests in the context of risk factors. This cross-sectional study included 152 youth participants who were surveyed at five Black churches on the south side of Chicago. Structural equation modeling was used to assess whether the proposed model fit the data. Based on the results, it was concluded that religiosity, religious support, and communalism are significantly related to thriving among African American adolescents. Neither exposure to violence nor racial discrimination was significantly associated with thriving in this study. Findings from this study have implications for future theorizing, research, and practice. Overall, the approach to and findings of this study make a significant contribution to literature on positive developmental outcomes for African American adolescents.

Building Healthy Communities for Positive Youth Development
Building Healthy Communities for Positive Youth Development

Author: Michael J. Nakkula

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-07-23

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1441957448

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It is a great pleasure to offer this volume from Michael J. Nakkula, Karen C. Foster, Marc Mannes, and Shenita Bolstrom as the latest in the Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society. Its importance to the series and this ?eld of inquiry and practice is readily evident in its title, Building Healthy Communities for Positive Youth Development. Since the early 1990s, Search Institute has invited and encouraged communities of all shapes and sizes to use its framework of Developmental Assets and principles of asset building to create strong, vibrant, and welcoming communities for children and youth. We have operated largely at the grassroots level, encouraging innovation and adaptation around a shared vision, rather than proposing a program or model for replication. We seek to learn as much from the communities as they learn from us. This book offers in-depth case studies of what happened in eight diverse c- munities that took up our invitation. In them, we see a wide array of strategies and approaches that, on the surface, seem to have little coherence. But, as Nakkula and colleagues found, underlying each of these distinct efforts was a deep commitment to transforming the social norms of community life to more effectively attend to young people’s healthy development throughout the ?rst two decades of life. There have been many ambitious efforts aimed at comprehensive community change on behalf of young people.