Product Description: Large  and growing numbers of U.S. children and young people are suffering from depression, anxiety, attention deficit, conduct disorders, thoughts of suicide, and other serious mental and behavioral problems.  Why?  What can be done to reverse this trend?  This pioneering report draws upon a large body of recent research showing that children are biologically primed ("hardwired") for enduring connections to others and for moral and spiritual meaning...read more

Product Description: Saul is a sixty-year-old, white educator; Eddie an eight-year-old black inner city kid. Eddie and Me is the true story of their life together, sensitively portrayed in all its unpredictable, funny and frustratingly dysfunctional moments as Saul attempts to step into Eddie's world...read more

Product Description: A simple, powerful answer to the question How do you keep a positive outlook for young people when there are so many troubling issues facing them?, this guidebook teaches prevention program leaders and healthcare professionals how to implement Developmental Assets®, a research-based framework of 40 positive relationships and qualities for young people, in their organizations...read more

The author places mentoring programs under the microscope, asking fundamental questions about the effectiveness of well-known programs designed to help at-risk youths.

Product Description: This groundbreaking work brings schools, agencies, and parents together in a cost-effective, collaborative effort to promote resilience in at-risk and dangerous youths and to deter them from future dangerous behavior. Too often, such youths "fall between the cracks" that exist between the organizations designed to serve them schools, juvenile courts, police departments, health and mental health agencies, and community groups...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: What are the types of environments in which youth thrive? How do we cultivate such environments to promote optimal development and positive behavior in youth? The Youth Development Handbook: Coming of Age in American Communities provides youth and development practitioners access to current theory and research in the field of youth development, including illustrations of good practice, original case studies, and a contextual approach to such topics as youth participation and diversity...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Explore the cultural, familial, and community resilience and protective factors that are available to different youth populations in the U.S.! The face of American youth is changing. In 2000, ethnic minority youth constituted one third of the adolescent population; by mid-century, the combined ethnic minority youth population will exceed the white adolescent population...read more

Product Description: Community Youth Development: Programs, Policies, and Practices focuses on positive methods for youth development that are rapidly supplanting the traditional deficit-oriented, problem-reduction approaches. Edited by eminent scholars Francisco A...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Practical guide and theoretical manifesto, New Frontiers for Youth Development is a vital roadmap to the problems and prospects of youth development programs today and in the future.In response to an unprecedented array of challenges, policy makers and care providers in the field of youth dvevelopment have begun to expand the field both practically and conceptually...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Urban teens of color are often portrayed as welfare mothers, drop outs, drug addicts, and both victims and perpetrators of the many kinds of violence which can characterize life in urban areas. Although urban youth often live in contexts which include poverty, unemployment, and discrimination, they also live with the everydayness of school, friends, sex, television, music, and other elements of teenage lives. Inner City Kids explores how a group of African American, Jamaican, Puerto Rican, and Haitian adolescents make meaning of and respond to living in an inner-city community. The book focuses on areas of particular concern to the youth, such as violence, educational opportunities, and a decaying and demoralizing urban environment characterized by trash, pollution, and abandoned houses. McIntyre's work with these teens draws upon participatory action research, which seeks to codevelop programs with study participants rather than for them. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This book urges professionals who work with urban youth to develop or rediscover innovative, capacity-enhancing, community-based approaches for engaging young people in activities that systematically build on their talents and energy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: THE MENTOR ROLL, GUIDING THE YOUNG (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Combining humanism and social science, the authors illustrate how youth organisations enable the young to link a sense of self beyond the mere labels of ethnicity and gender, to responsibility and supportive environments for work and play.