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Youth, Crisis, and Learning

The Experiences of Ontarian Young Adults in a Leadership Development Program

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In jurisdictions across the globe, young adults are emerging as a policy concern and a central focus of state intervention. In a certain sense, this focus is not new; governments and organizations have articulated a specific set of goals for populations labeled “youth at-risk” for some time. Historically, the term youth at-risk largely existed as code for poor youth of colour in urban areas (Kupchik, 2010; Nolan, 2011; Riele, 2006; Saltman & Gabbard, 2003; Tilton, 2010), but more recent policy concerns have broadened their focus on “youth” to include young people from all demographic and socio-economic backgrounds.

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Zoltok, S. (2017). Youth, Crisis, and Learning. In: Carpenter, S., Mojab, S. (eds) Youth as/in Crisis. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-098-1_12

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