This edited text focuses on positive approaches to youth development that are rapidly supplanting the traditional deficit-oriented, problem-reduction approach.

After-school programs, scout groups, community service activities, religious youth groups, and other community-based activities have long been thought to play a

This volume builds understanding of practices in youth and community development that create or build social capital assets at the individual, group, and commun

Practical guide and theoretical manifesto, New Frontiers for Youth Development is a vital roadmap to the problems and prospects of youth development programs to

Social settings have enormous power to promote or hinder positive youth development. Researchers and practitioners know a great deal about features of schools a