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A Guide to Effective Investments in Positive Youth Development: Implications of Research for Financing and Sustaining Programs and Services for Youth
This new paper reviews some of the most recent research on what makes an effective youth development program, and seeks to guide decision-makers on where to invest limited resources. It ...
http://www.financeproject.org/publications/PositiveYouthDev.pdf
Beyond Safe Havens: A Synthesis of 20 Years of Research on the Boys & Girls Clubs
Public/Private Ventures recently launched a multiyear study to understand the role that Boys & Girls Clubs play in the lives of early adolescents. Beyond Safe Havens, a prelude to the ...
http://www.ppv.org/ppv/youth/youth_publications.asp?section_id=8#pub186
Building a Learning Agenda Around Disconnected Youth
In December 2007, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave MDRC (originally know as Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation) a grant to conduct reconnaissance on promising strategies to reengage disconnected young ...
http://www.mdrc.org/publications/545/abstract.html
Building Blocks for Quality Youth Sports Programs
Academic research shows that children and youth need specific opportunities and support to grow into healthy and successful adults. A high-quality sports program provides all of these opportunities and has ...
http://www.teamupforyouth.org/dynamic/attachables/media_filename_36.pdf
Developing Resilience in Urban Youth
This paper discusses the characteristics of resilient children and how to build protective processes within and around children so that they overcome risk at critical decision-making moments in their lives. ...
http://www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/educatrs/leadrshp/le0win.htm
Effective Coaching for Positive Youth Development
Presentation given at the 2005 Summit on Positive Development Through Youth Sports. This presentation provides a brief overview of coaching effectiveness research, the coach's role in positive youth development ...
http://www.spfldcol.edu/homepage/dept.nsf/b2441d1da59344e385256fdc0055fcbf/$FILE/Linda%20Petlichkoff.pdf
Everyone Plays! A Review of Research on the Integration of Sports and Physical Activity
Everyone Plays! A Review of Research on the Integration of Sports and Physical Activity into Out-of-School Time Programs, written by Policy Studies Associates, Inc. with support from the After School ...
http://www.policystudies.com/OSTsports.pdf
Influence of Achievement Beliefs on Adolescent Girls' Sport Confidence Sources
A study was conducted on the influence of female athletes' dispositional and situational tendencies on the selection of sources of sport confidence. It hypothesized that task orientation and perceptions of ...
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICDocs/data/ericdocs2sql/content_storage_01/0000019b/80/19/64/80.pdf
Learning to Play, and Playing to Learn
This report is the first of a series of monographs designed to explore what is known about the healthy development of children and youth, and how participation in sports-based youth ...
http://www.teamupforyouth.org/dynamic/attachables/media_filename_119.pdf
Massachusetts Statewide Action Plan
The Forum for Youth Investment facilitated a Ready by 21 approach over the course of three retreats with the Massachusetts Action Planning Team made up of over 100 members. ...
http://www.forumforyouthinvestment.org/content/massachusetts-statewide-action-plan
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