Creating relationship‐based practice in youth employment services—Converting policy intentions to practical program design

The Effects of Youth Employment: Evidence from New York City Summer Youth Employment Program Lotteries

Programs to encourage labor market activity among youth, including public employment programs and wage subsidies like the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, can be supported by three broad rationales. They may: (1) provide contemporaneous income support to participants; (2) encourage work experience that improves future employment and/or educational outcomes of participants; and/or (3) keep participa...

A Policy Program for Full Employment

Assessment in Youth Sport: Practical Issues and Best Practice Guidelines.

Assessment is an important element to the present and future of sport psychology (McCann et al., 2002), both in science and in practice. Yet, there exist few resources addressing the unique developmental parameters facing sport scientists and sport practitioners when it comes to conducting sound assessment across the athletic lifespan. Indeed, this aspect of the literature remains particularly ...

Creating communities of practice: scoping purposeful design

Purpose – This paper seeks to scope the nature and form of practices, understandings and institutional arrangements thatmight contribute to the successful ‘‘design’’ and continuity of Communities of Practice (CoP) in a state government department in Australia. The study aims to provide research evidence to support the design and establishment of a CoP based on systems thinking within this depar...

Youth Employment in Developing Countries

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