Community Youth Development: Programs, Policies, and Practices

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

The book addresses the question; what does it take to create a community that will promote the positive opportunities that can optimize the development of all young people?

The book draws together the perspectives of top names and programs in positive youth development, thus assuring readers of authoritative, cutting-edge coverage.