Fostering Youth Engagement on Community Teams

Scheve, Julie A.; Perkins, Daniel F.; Mincemoyer, Claudia

doi:10.5195/jyd.2006.400

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“…The use of visual tools would likely help in this process. Visual tools can be created by working with a GIS specialist, or through an activity such as the eco-map (Scheve, Perkins, Mincemoyer, & Welsh, 2006). Using appropriate visual tools has been crucial in the past to communicate information (Tufte, 1997).…”

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From the Macro to the Micro: A Geographic Examination of the Community Context and Early Adolescent Problem Behaviors

Chilenski

2011

American J of Comm Psychol

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This study examined how multiple dimensions and levels of the community context associated with early adolescent problem behaviors in rural communities. Four thousand, five hundred and nine eighth-grade students in 28 rural and small town school districts in two states participated in surveys regarding substance use and delinquency in 2005. Locations of alcohol retailers, tobacco retailers, youth-serving organizations, and student residences were geocoded. Associations of the number of proximal alcohol and tobacco retailers, and youth-serving organizations with an early-adolescent problem behavior index were tested in Nonlinear Mixed Models that controlled for multiple district-level and individual characteristics. Multi-level model results demonstrated that the number of alcohol and tobacco retail locations within a one-mile radius of each adolescent’s home positively associated with student-reported problem behaviors above and beyond the influence of school district and individual characteristics. Results suggest that the proximal community context added significantly to the district context when understanding the occurrence of early adolescent problem behaviors. Recognizing this variability in geographically determined risk within a community will likely enhance the effectiveness of community prevention activities.

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From the Macro to the Micro: A Geographic Examination of the Community Context and Early Adolescent Problem Behaviors

Chilenski

2011

American J of Comm Psychol

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“…Moreover, if youth are not given the opportunity to lead change, the odds will forever be slim for them to do so (Scheve, Perkins, & Mincemoyer, 2006). Additionally, when youth are constantly discouraged from engaging in change -whether that be attending community meetings or mentorship -they will continue to fall into a cycle of disengagement and continue to be regarded as complacent, not to mention feeling complacent as well.…”

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Youth Perspectives on Community Activism: From the Personal to the Political

Dlamini¹,

Kwakyewah²

2019

Tikkun Beyond Borders: Connecting Youth Voices, Leading Change

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This chapter presents findings from the Toronto Tikkun Youth Project participants about their community and civic engagement activities. Data was gathered through interviews with sixteen participants who were between 16 and 24 years old and were of varied ethnic and racial backgrounds. The chapter contributes to literature that challenges notions of youth apathy and shows the varied ways in which youth contribute to the development of their communities and to civic society, generally. Data from the project show the different ways that youth define community and civic engagement, as well as the divergent forms and motivation for participating in these activities. Notions of belonging to their community, desire to contribute, challenge stereotypes, and create meaningful futures for themselves, were mentioned as some of the reasons youth chose to engage in community life. The youth voices echoed in this chapter can be used to combat the ongoing notions about youth apathy and the decreasing level of youth community engagement. The data also shows the need for a more systematic mapping of youth engagement and their contribution to society. In this chapter, we present findings from data collected with youth in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), as part of the broader Tikkun Youth Project (2014-2017), with sites in Canada, Kosovo, and South Africa. The discussion presented herein is part of ongoing public and scholarly debates about youth civic engagement or lack thereof. In this chapter, we offer narratives that 189 | Youth Perspectives on Community Activism describe youth community activities alongside youth discussions of empowerment, advocacy, and their growing career/academic pathways through and because of their activities in community spaces. We define community engagement as activities that "engage youth in the civic life of their communities" (Zeldin, 2004, p. 632) and as "how an active citizen participates in the life of a community in order to improve conditions for others or to help shape the community's future" (Adler & Goggin, 2005, p. 242). We also work with Berger's (2009) categories of engagement, while acknowledging his stance that the notion of "civic engagement" per se is muddled and lacks scholarly clarity. Berger retains the notion of "engagement," whilst distinguishing between political, social, and moral engagements and between engagement in (activity without attention); engagement by (attention without activity); and engagement with (attention and activity). We find these categories helpful in discussing the ways or levels of engagement that youth referred to as part of their community life. Cammaerts, Bruter, Banaji, Harrison, and Anstead (2014) reported that a significant portion of youth channel their political activities towards their social movement and civil organizing; therefore, any discussion about youth community engagement must intersect discussion on political participation. By including discussions on Tikkun youth's political engagement, we also strengthen the debates about the diverge...

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“…When young people are provided with support to be advocates, such as education, training, and coaching, they can better influence changes in policies, systems, and environments in unique ways, while also benefiting from increased skill development and well-being (Millstein & Sallis, 2011;Scheve, Perkins, & Mincemoyer, 2006). Extension youth advocate programs are Journal of Youth Development | http://jyd.pitt.edu/ | Vol.…”

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Youth Workers’ Role in Engaging Youth in Health Advocacy for Community-Level Change

Toomey

Smathers²,

Iaccopucci

et al. 2018

JYD

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Youth development professionals and volunteers, here referred to collectively as “youth workers,” need to be prepared to engage young people as health advocates. Youth workers need an understanding of public health principles; policy, systems, environment change approaches; and effective youth–adult strategies to move from viewing youth as participants to engaged leaders in community health issues. Embracing youth as partners will create effective partnerships and yield substantial positive health impacts for the youth, adults, and their communities.

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Fostering Youth Engagement on Community Teams

Cited by 5 publications

References 20 publications

From the Macro to the Micro: A Geographic Examination of the Community Context and Early Adolescent Problem Behaviors

From the Macro to the Micro: A Geographic Examination of the Community Context and Early Adolescent Problem Behaviors

Youth Perspectives on Community Activism: From the Personal to the Political

Youth Workers’ Role in Engaging Youth in Health Advocacy for Community-Level Change

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