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This issue presents new thinking about the ways in which youth and parents are engaged in local reform, particular education reform, with the help of community organizations. Community groups examined in this volume advocate for and with youth in a variety of ways: through youth organizing, parent organizing, more traditional youth advocacy, and funding support. These organizations are critical in promoting youth's healthy development. They lobby to change policy and service delivery, connect diverse institutions that serve youth, push for more resources for youth, educate local officials about youth's needs, and empower parents and youth to become advocates in their own right. There is a ripple effect in these local efforts; not only do policies and political contexts change, but individual and communities themselves begin to change too. And although there are significant barriers to changing entrenched ideas about youth and their needs, the efforts discussed in these articles are having tangible results in many urban areas.

This is the 117th volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report psychology series New Directions for Youth Development. New Directions for Youth Development is dedicated to bringing together everyone concerned with helping young people, including scholars, practitioners, and people from different disciplines and professions. The result is a unique resource presenting thoughtful, multi-faceted approaches to helping our youth develop into responsible, stable, well-rounded citizens. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the usefulness of print and makes reprints available to the public whenever possible. This book and hundreds of thousands of others can be found in the HathiTrust, an archive of the digitized collections of many great research libraries. For access to the University of Michigan Library's digital collections, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu and for information about the HathiTrust, please visit http://www.hathitrust.org ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Parks & Recreation, published by Thomson Gale on July 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1045 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Advocacy update: facilitating youth sports: park and recreation organizations need to advance their leadership role in youth sports.
Author: Kathy Spangler
Publication: Parks & Recreation (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 41Issue: 7Page: 14(2)

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Advocacy for youth means making a commitment to stand by, with, and for young people. Advocacy helps to generate a respect for youth and their issues among parishioners, business owners, Church leaders, elected officials, policy makers, and key community leaders.

Be a Champion of Youth: Standing With, By, and For Young People explores advocacy as an essential component of a comprehensive and life-changing Catholic youth ministry. This book can serve as a primer for individual coordinators of youth ministry to gauge their own advocacy efforts or it could form the basis for empowering an entire youth ministry team or parish. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Non-profit Times, published by NPT Publishing Group, Inc. on June 15, 2010. The length of the article is 1131 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: A youth's involvement: adult support helps mission flourish.(ADVOCACY)
Author: Kate Rogers
Publication: The Non-profit Times (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 15, 2010
Publisher: NPT Publishing Group, Inc.
Volume: 24Issue: 11Page: 17(1)

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: European Youth Forum, Quaker Council for European Affairs, European Policy Centre, European Friends of Israel, European Roma Information Office, Anec, European Anti Poverty Network, European Union National Institutes for Culture, Eurocities. Excerpt:ANEC , the European Association for the Co-ordination of Consumer Representation in Standardisation (known informally as 'the European consumer voice in standardisation'), is an organisation promoting and defending consumer interests in the processes of standardization and certification and in legislation related to standardization and certification . In November 2008, ANEC adopted the strapline 'Raising Standards for Consumers' as part of an initiative to improve the visibility of the association. ANEC provides technical expertise and advice drawn from a network of more than 200 consumer representatives across Europe. The organisation's experts contribute directly to the work of more than 80 technical committees and working groups of the European Standards Organisations, CEN , CENELEC and ETSI . History ANEC was set up in 1995 as an international non-profit association under Belgian law. Its principal motivation was to ensure organised consumer participation in the development of European Standards intended to support European legislation introduced under the New Approach to Technical Harmonization and Standardization. However, its competence also extends to other European Standards developed by the European Standards Organisations as well as to other standards that may impact directly or indirectly on the European consumer (for example, certain standards of W3C, the World Wide Web Consortium) . ANEC represents consumer organisations from the European Union Member States and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) countries. Th... ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Parks & Recreation, published by National Recreation and Park Association on October 1, 2002. The length of the article is 522 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Urge Congress to increase funds for youth prevention programs: NRPA members need to educate federal legislators about youth programs. (Advocacy Update).
Publication: Parks & Recreation (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2002
Publisher: National Recreation and Park Association
Volume: 37Issue: 10Page: 12(1)

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California Coalition for Youth (Sacramento), 2002, yellow paperback about 8½x9", 127 pages + appendices ... Read more

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Youth, Identity, Power is a unique exploration of the origins and development of Chicano radicalism in America.

Youth, Identity, Power is the classic study of the origins of the1960s Chicano civil rights movement. Written by a leader of the Chicano studentmovement who also played a key role in the creation of the wider ChicanoMovement, this is the first full-length work to appear on the subject. It fillsan important gap in the history of political and social protest in the UnitedStates.

Carlos Muñoz places the Chicano Movement in the context of the political andintellectual development of people of Mexican descent in the USA, tracing theemergence of student activists and intellectuals in the 1930s and their initialchallenge to the dominant white racial and class ideologies. He then documentsthe rise and fall of the Chicano Movement of the 1960s, situating it within the1960s civil rights and radical movements and assessing the Chicano Movement'scontribution to the development of the Mexican American population and theLatino population as a whole.

In an afterword to this new edition, Muñoz charts the burgeoning growth ofUS Latino communities, assesses the nativist backlash against them, and arguesthat Latinos must play a central role in a new movement for multiracialdemocracy.

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This book provides an overview of the youth population and the increasing complexity of transitioning to adulthood for all adolescents. For vulnerable (or "at-risk") youth, the transition to adulthood is complicated by a number of challenges, including family conflict or abandonment and obstacles to securing employment that provides adequate wages and health insurance. These youth may be prone to outcomes that have negative consequences for their future development as responsible, self-sufficient adults. Risk outcomes include teenage parenthood, homelessness, drug abuse, delinquency, physical and sexual abuse, and school dropout. Detachment from the labour market and school or disconnectedness, may be the single strongest indicator that causes such an unsuccessful transition to adulthood. It also provides a separate discussion of the concept of "disconnectedness", as well as the protective factors youth can develop during childhood and adolescence that can mitigate poor outcomes. Further, the report describes the evolution of federal youth policy, focusing on three time periods, and provides a brief overview of current federal programs targeted at vulnerable youth. ... Read more

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If democratic societies are to survive as true democracies, they need citizens who are informed, concerned and active. How such citizens develop from childhood into adults is crucial information for educators, psychologist, young people, parents, politicians and many, many others. This watershed work brings an understanding to the disparate activist youth groups internationally as well as the interdisciplinary research that explores this phenomena. Featuring 185 original entries—from chatrooms, to grass roots movements, from gangs and politics to Riot GRRLS and Campus Crusade for Christ—this authoritative source lends insight and explanation to the history as well as contemporary forms of youth commitment today. First-person accounts from today's youth activists as well as adult activists illuminate the journey from young idealist to lifelong work.

The major categories that frame this work are advocacy for social causes; adolescent and youth development; education; historical examples; media and internet infulence and use; national examples of activism and social movement; organizations and programs; political context; postive youth development; social background factors, e.g., economic class, race, ethnicity, gender and culture; social relationships and networks; voices of activism; and youth culture.

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This digital document is an article from Parks & Recreation, published by National Recreation and Park Association on June 1, 2008. The length of the article is 771 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Advocacy update: funding play every day: in the youth obesity equation, public parks and recreation is one of the most logical solutions.(MAKING PARKS AND RECREATION A PRIORITY)
Author: Stacey Pine
Publication: Parks & Recreation (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 1, 2008
Publisher: National Recreation and Park Association
Volume: 43Issue: 6Page: 14(2)

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