After-school programs to promote positive youth development: integrating research into practice and policy. - Volume 1

This first volume presents a series of papers compiled from a conference about how after-school programmes may be implemented to promote positive youth development (PYD) hosted by Youth-Nex, the University of Virginia Center to Promote Effective Youth Development.

It reviews the importance of after-school programmes for PYD and discusses key components of effective after-school programmes.