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Effects of positive youth development programs on school, family, and community systems

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American Journal of Community Psychology

Abstract

A review of efforts at social system change in 526 universal competence-promotion outcome studies indicated that 64% of the interventions attempted some type of microsystemic or mesosystemic change involving schools, families, or community-based organizations in an attempt to foster developmental competencies in children and adolescents. Only 24% of the reports provided quantitative data on the change that occurred in targeted systems. However, studies containing the necessary information produced several mean effect sizes that were statistically significant, and ranged from modest to large in magnitude. These data indicate that attempts to change social systems affecting children and adolescents can be successful. Future work should measure more thoroughly the extent to which the systemic changes that are targeted through intervention are achieved, and investigate how such changes contribute to the development and sustainability of the outcomes that might be demonstrated by participants of competence-promotion programs.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Loyola University Chicago, 6525 N. Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL, 60626, USA

    Joseph A. Durlak, Kei Kawashima, Molly K. Pachan, Emily P. DuPre, Christine I. Celio & Sasha R. Berger

  2. Department of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

    Rebecca D. Taylor, Allison B. Dymnicki & Roger P. Weissberg

  3. Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning, Chicago, IL, USA

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The authors wish to thank David Wilson for supplying the macros used to calculate study level effect sizes and Mark Lipsey for supplying the SPSS macros used to weight effect sizes and calculate mean effects across studies.

This study was supported in part by a grant from the William T. Grant Foundation (#2212) awarded to the first and last authors.

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Durlak, J.A., Taylor, R.D., Kawashima, K. et al. Effects of positive youth development programs on school, family, and community systems. Am J Community Psychol 39, 269–286 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10464-007-9112-5

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