Positive development models shift focus for intervention from avoiding problems, deficits, or psychopathology to promoting skills, assets, and psychological well-being as the critical interests in development and intervention.
This study explores the role of mentor–youth meeting time on academic performance within school-based mentoring.
This paper reports on a longitudinal study of 1012 youth (aged 13–17 years). Half were clients of two or more services and were followed for three years to enable analysis of the impact over time of services delivered using positive youth development practices (PYD).
An ongoing, innovative youth worker professional development is described in this article. This initiative began as youth worker professional development and then transcended to personal and organizational development.
Although many youths participate in afterschool programs, the research is unclear about which aspects of afterschool program quality contribute most to positive outcomes.
This article examines the relationship between after-school program quality, program attendance, and academic outcomes for a sample of low-income after-school program participants.
Intentional self-regulatory, or goal-directed, skills are essential for positivesocial relationships, success, and well-being during adolescence. Priortheory has suggested that mentoring relationships may provide a keyresource for building these skills.
Using a case study method, afterschool site leader experiences and organizational factors related to youth program quality improvement processes were examined. Responding to issues identified by site leaders, external technical assistance targeted both program structure and content.
This study examined quality and afterschool program designs with a focus on conditions of persistent low quality. Using an action science case study method, data from a quality-improvement project were examined to explore circumstances and reasons for low quality.
Objective: The success of the Medical Reserve Corps (MRC) is dependent on the ability of volunteers to respond in a timely and effective manner.