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Transforming youth-serving organizations to support healthy youth development /
This volume tells the story of major organizational change efforts at one municipal youth-serving organization to better support healthy youth development system wide. Presenting the viewpoints of young people, frontline staff, supervisors, managers, and the director, it reviews how the organization...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
Jossey-Bass,
2013.
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| Colección: | New directions for youth development ;
no. 139, fall 2013. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Issue Editors' Notes; Executive Summary; Chapter One: Missing in the youth development literature: The organization as host, cage, and promise; Chapter Two: From youth worker professional development to organizational change; Chapter Three: Use of research for transforming youth agencies; Chapter Four: Youth advisory structures: Listening to young people to support quality youth services; Chapter Five: Shaping partnerships by doing the work; Chapter Six: What can local foundations do to support youth service system change efforts?
- Chapter Seven: From lessons learned to emerging practicesProem; Preface; 1: Missing in the youth development literature: The organization as host, cage, and promise; Scenarios; First scenario; Second scenario; Third scenario; Fourth scenario; Research agenda: Questions that will always remain; 2: From youth worker professional development to organizational change; The contexts; Training philosophy and ethos; Building and sustaining meaningful relationships with young people; Cocreating a space for learning and change; Being a reflective practitioner; Community organizing.
- Professional development structurePhases of the professional development groups; The diagnostic phase; Enhancing youth program skills; Organizing and social action; What was accomplished?; Personal and professional development; Organizational development; Challenges and barriers; Lessons learned; Was it worth the effort?; Concluding thoughts: Can this be done elsewhere?; 3: Use of research for transforming youth agencies; The work; The research process; Phase I: Prestudy; Politics; Opening the door; Phase II: Preparing for the study; Phase III: Data analysis; Phase IV: Write-up.
- Final thoughts on the research processLessons learned; Research on agency change; Workers; Students; The university; Role of faculty with the agency; Role of faculty with students; Role of faculty in relation to their studies; Emily's role; Conclusion; Appendix: Sample of student studies; Course examples; Study Highlight: "I Was Raised in the Gym"; 4: Youth advisory structures: Listening to young people to support quality youth services; Youth advisory structures as a response and contributor; First study; Second study; Third study; Youth advisory groups: A brief description.
- Youth advice structures: Symbolic or substantive?Voice; Moving toward the use of expressed ideas; Preparation and training; Modes of expression; Third research study: Process and practice; The process; Discussion; Lessons learned; Lesson 1: Shift from opinion giving to informed idea; Lesson 2: Focus on giving advice and work to ensure that advice gets used; Lesson 3: Authentic youth advisory structures meet a moral test; Lesson 4: Young people deserve a place at the table in addition to doing the work; Lesson 5: Reinvention of support structures; A final note.