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Ensure Healthy Development for All Youth

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Gerontological Social Work and the Grand Challenges

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Development of interventions and programs that address and prevent health and mental health crises in youth is the focal point of the Grand Challenge to ensure healthy development of youth. Many of the interventions and programs designed for ensuring healthy emotional, mental, behavioral, and physical development for youth only mention inclusion of parents, while not including other close family members, such as grandparents. This chapter describes the range of custodial and coparenting arrangements involving grandparents, the related risk, and protective factors for youth and identifies interventions that have demonstrated evidence of effectiveness with these families. The chapter ends with a discussion of future steps for practice, research, and policy related to innovative preventive interventions for youth in grandfamilies.

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  1. University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, USA

    James P. Gleeson

  2. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA

    Qiana R. Cryer-Coupet

  3. University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA

    Tyreasa Washington

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  1. School of Social Work, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA

    Sara Sanders

  2. School of Social Work, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, USA

    Stacey R. Kolomer

  3. School of Social Work, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, USA

    Cheryl Waites Spellman

  4. School of Social Welfare, University at Albany, Albany, NY, USA

    Victoria M. Rizzo

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Gleeson, J.P., Cryer-Coupet, Q.R., Washington, T. (2019). Ensure Healthy Development for All Youth. In: Sanders, S., Kolomer, S., Waites Spellman, C., Rizzo, V. (eds) Gerontological Social Work and the Grand Challenges. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26334-8_1

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