Evaluating youth development programs: Progress and promise

Youth development programs: risk, prevention and policy.

Adolescence is a time of both great risk and opportunity. Buoyed by a belief that today’s adolescents face more obstacles on the way to adulthood, from time-crunched parents, dangerous substances and behaviors, overburdened schools, and a more demanding job market, we as a nation no longer believe adolescents should fend for themselves during nonschool hours. In some communities, an array of sc...

Positive Youth Development Processes, Philosophies, and Programs

PYD AS A DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESS 365 THE STUDY OF ADOLESCENCE WITHIN THE RELATIONAL DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEM 366 APPROACHES TO PYD AS A DEVELOPMENTAL PROCESS 367 RICHARD M. LERNER, JACQUELINE V. LERNER, AND COLLEAGUES AND THE STUDY OF INDIVIDUAL ←→ CONTEXT RELATIONAL PROCESSES AND PYD 373 PYD AS A PHILOSOPHY OR APPROACH TO YOUTH PROGRAMMING 379 PYD AS INSTANCES OF YOUTH PROGRAMS AND ORGANIZATIONS 381...

Training programs and implementation process of positive youth development programs.

The development of an AIDS vaccine: progress and promise.

The development of a safe and effective vaccine against infection by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is of paramount importance to the prevention of AIDS worldwide. Although a great deal has been learned about HIV in a few short years, the development of an AIDS vaccine has proved to be extremely difficult. The lack of an appropriate animal model for AIDS, the absence of a defined protec...

Development, "Culture," and the Promise of Modern Progress

This essay investigates the key tensions that arise within Jamaica's new cultural policy "Toward Jamaica the Cultural Superstate." The argument presented in the paper is that "culture" is a tricky and potentially dangerous site upon which to hinge national development goals, even though the expansion of cultural industries may well represent a viable and potentially lucrative strategy for econo...