Building Healthy Communities for Positive Youth Development
The Healthy Communities • Healthy Youth (HC • HY) project has provided grassroots support for the creation of robust, welcoming environments not only for children and adolescents at risk but for all youth. Building Healthy Communities for Positive Youth D
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Michael J. Nakkula · Karen C. Foster · Marc Mannes · Shenita Bolstrom
Building Healthy Communities for Positive Youth Development
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Michael J. Nakkula University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education Division of Applied Psychology-Human Development Walnut St. 3700 19104 Philadelphia Pennsylvania GSE Room 308 USA [email protected]
Karen C. Foster 01810 Andover Massachusetts USA [email protected]
Marc Mannes Search Institute First Ave. NE., 615 55413 Minneapolis Minnesota USA [email protected]
Shenita Bolstrom Medtronic, Inc. 55432-3568 Minneapolis Minnesota USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-5743-6 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-5744-3 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-5744-3 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010926131 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Series Preface
It is a great pleasure to offer this volume from Michael J. Nakkula, Karen C. Foster, Marc Mannes, and Shenita Bolstrom as the latest in the Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society. Its importance to the series and this field of inquiry and practice is readily evident in its title, Building Healthy Communities for Positive Youth Development. Since the early 1990s, Search Institute has invited and encouraged communities of all shapes and sizes to use its framework of Developmental Assets and principles of asset building to create strong, vibrant, and welcoming communities for children and youth. We have operated largely at the grassroots level, encouraging innovation and adaptation around a shared vision, rather than proposing a program or model for replication. We seek to learn as much from the communities as they learn from us. This book offers in-depth case studies of what happened in eight diverse communities that took up our invitation. In them, we see a wide array of strategies and approaches that, on the surface, seem to have little coherence. But, as Nakkula and colleagues found, underlying each of these distinct efforts was a deep commitment to transforming the social norms of community life to more eff
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