Overview
- Explores the ways in which after-school programs may promote positive youth development (PYD)
- Addresses key components of effective after-school programs
- Measures outcomes and quality of after-school programs
- Offers strategies for maximizing the potential of after-school time and programs to promote positive youth development for all children and adolescents
- Recommends directions for future research, practice, and policy
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Advances in Child and Family Policy and Practice (ACFPP)
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Topics featured in this brief include:
- The history of the relationship between after-school programs and positive youth development.
- Specific features of programs that are important for advancing positive youth development.
- Issues in and approaches to measuring quality in after-school programs.
- The Quality, Engagement, Skills, Transfer (QuEST) model and its use for measuring effective after-school programs.
- A case study evaluation of the Girls on the Run program.
After-School Programs to Promote Positive Youth Development, Volume 1, is a must-have resource for policy makers and related professionals, graduate students, and researchers in child and school psychology, family studies, public health, social work, law/criminal justice, and sociology.
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Keywords
- Academic achievement and after-school programs
- After-school program evaluation
- After-school programs and positive youth development
- Child development and after-school programs
- Cognitive development and after-school programs
- Education policy and after-school programs
- Extended learning and after-school programs
- Leadership and after-school programs
- Out-of-school time and activities
- Participation and after-school programs
- Peer relationships and after-school programs
- Program quality and after-school activities
- PYD and after-school activities
- PYD and education policy and politics
- Skill development and transfer and after-school programs
- Social-emotional skills and after-school programs
- Student engagement and after-school activities
- Youth empowerment and after-school programs
- Youth engagement and after-school programs
- Youth participation and program measurement
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Book Title: After-School Programs to Promote Positive Youth Development
Book Subtitle: Integrating Research into Practice and Policy, Volume 1
Editors: Nancy L. Deutsch
Series Title: Advances in Child and Family Policy and Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59132-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-59131-5Published: 13 July 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-59132-2Published: 01 July 2017
Series ISSN: 2625-2546
Series E-ISSN: 2625-2554
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 71
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Child and School Psychology, Family, Public Health