Risk, Resilience, and Positive Youth Development Developing Effective Community Programs for At-Risk Youth: Lessons from the Denver Bridge Project

by Jenson, Jeffrey M.; Alter, Catherine F.; Nicotera, Nicole; Anthony, Elizabeth K.; Forrest-Bank, Shandra S.

• ISBN13: 9780199755882
• ISBN10: 0199755884
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-11-27
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Risk, Resilience, and Positive Youth Development: Developing Effective Community Programs for High-Risk Youth: Lessons from the Denver Bridge Project describes an approach to developing and testing effective community-based programs for at-risk children and youth. This volume shows howelements of risk and resilience, positive youth development, and organizational collaboration are used to develop a comprehensive intervention framework called the Integrated Prevention and Early Intervention (IPEI) Model. The IPEI is then applied to a community-based after-school program called theBridge Project to illustrate how an integrated intervention framework can be used to prevent childhood and adolescent problems and improve academic achievement. Findings from an evaluation of the Denver Bridge Project intervention components are presented, and recommendations for advancing policy and practice for high-risk youth in community-based programs are described. Readers will follow the planning, development, implementation, evaluation andassessment of the Bridge Project guided by first-person perspectives from program participants who share their stories throughout the book. Risk, Resilience, and Positive Youth Development presents an integrated theory and model for working with at-risk youth, demonstrated in a detailed caseexample, giving practitioners, administrators, educators, researchers and policymakers a complete package.

Author Biography

Jeffrey M. Jenson, PhD, is the Philip D. and Eleanor G. Winn Professor for Children and Youth at Risk and Associate Dean for Research in the Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver.

Catherine F. Alter, PhD, was Dean of the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver from 1997 to 2006.

Nicole Nicotera, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver.

Elizabeth K. Anthony, PhD, is Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University.

Shandra S. Forrest-Bank, MSW, is Assistant Professor in the College of Social Work at the University of Tennessee.

Table of Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Theoretical Models and Community-Based Programs for At-Risk Children and Youth

A Risk and Resilience Framework for Child and Youth

A Positive Youth Development Model for Child and Youth Programs

Interorganizational Collaboration in Child and Youth Programs

The Integrated Prevention and Early Intervention Model: Integrating Theory, Intervention, and Evaluation at the Denver Bridge Project

The Integrated Prevention and Early Intervention Model: Bridge Project Intervention Components

The Integrated Prevention and Early Intervention Model: A Guide to Evaluation at the Bridge Project

Community and Participant Outcomes from the Bridge Project

Where Do We Go From Here? Advancing Community-Based Programs for Children and Youth

Study Procedures

Instruments

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