Elaine Johnson of National Training Institute for Community Youth Work reflects upon the challenges and prospects of infusing the entire sector with youth development principles.
Supporting Young People in Your Organization
Practical suggestions that can be incorporated in your daily tasks.
Young Leaders Speak
As accomplished leaders in their 20s, these four remarkable individuals suggest what personal and institutional actions adults can take to foster genuine youth development.
Civil Regulation—How Nonprofits are Co-regulating Business
Many nonprofits have bypassed nation states and advocate collaboratively and confrontationally with business to solve environmental and social challenges.
Giving Sanctuary, Nurturing a Tradition of Nationhood
Keikialoha Kekipi and Susie Osborne create a safe place for youth to explore and celebrate Native Hawaiian culture and history.
Hampton, Virginia: A City-wide Enabling Environment
See what a community looks like when civic leaders believe youth engagement is critical for a healthy community—young people directly advise city representatives, city employees, and educators.
Creating the Means and Opportunity for Reflective Practice in Youth Development
Over the last decade, the occupational field of youth workers—individuals who work with young people—have strengthened their professional development training programs and networks to reflect a youth development perspective.
Youth as Nation Builders
In Europe and South Africa, the youth movements have matured to the next level—nation building—that is, forming new federal and state governmental institutions with representative youth reviewing and affecting legislation.
Building Youth Movements for Community Change
Whether youth are working to address problems specifically facing youth or issues affecting the entire community, all youth involved in organizing must confront and overcome the fact that young people are politically disempowered and denied access to the decision-making process.
Rethinking Youth: Perceptions of Young People Shape Public Agenda
Rethinking the concept of youth is necessary because the social, economic and political conditions under which young people are growing up are changing.
Rejecting the Isolation of Youth—Adults and Organizations Dramatically Benefit
A succinct contextual history of how our culture and policy has isolated youth and then shares powerful evidence that the new practices of inclusion have positive effects upon youth, adults and organizations.
Welcome: Mapping Strategic Relationships
An introduction to the entire issue that goes over the importance of our major theme: building strategic relationships.