Document Type
Article
Abstract
The theme of this symposium is Building Practice on Knowledge, and I have been asked to talk with you this evening about one aspect of this challenge - Youth Development and Community Programs: Strategies for Applying What We Know. In my presentation, I will be reporting to you - for the first time in a public forum - the findings of a two-year national study conducted by the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development and its Task Force on Youth Development and Community Programs. This study has attempted to bring together information about contemporary American youth organizations - broadly defined - with a view toward strengthening community-based programs and services for young people. A particular focus of our work, because it is a particular focus of the Carnegie Council on Adolescent Development, has been young adolescents - young people between the ages of roughly 10 and 15. But much of what we have learned - and of what I will be discussing tonight - applies to both younger and older children and youth. The Carnegie Council study, to be published in early December, is entitled A Matter of Time: Risk and Opportunity in the Non-School Hours. The title is intended to call attention to the fact that some 40 percent of the hours available to our nation's youth are discretionary, meaning that they are not already committed to such activities as attending school, doing homework, assisting with household errands and chores, or working for pay (Timmer, Eccles, & O'Brien, 1985).
Publication Date
1992
Journal Title
National Youth Leadership Symposium Monographs
Volume
3
Issue
1
ISBN
1-881516-02-4
First Page
3
Last Page
16
Publisher
Institute for Youth Leaders
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1992 Institute for Youth Leaders, College of Education, School of Health, Physical Education and Leisure Services, University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Quinn, Jane
(1992)
"Youth Development and Community Programs: Strategies for Applying What We Know (R.J. McElroy Lecture),"
National Youth Leadership Symposium Monographs: Vol. 3, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/nyls_monographs/vol3/iss1/4
Comments
Monograph no.3 of this series covers the 1992 National Youth Leadership Symposium