Transforming Youth Serving Organizations to Support Healthy Youth Development : New Directions for Youth Development, Number 139.

This volume tells the story of major organizational change efforts at one municipal youth-serving organization to better support healthy youth development system wide. Presenting the viewpoints of young people, frontline staff, supervisors, managers, and the director, it reviews how the organization...

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Main Author: Roholt, Ross VeLure.
Other Authors: Baizerman, Michael L., Rana, Sheetal., Korum, Kathy.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:J-B MHS Single Issue Mental Health Services Series
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505 0 |a Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Issue Editors' Notes -- Executive Summary -- Chapter One: Missing in the youth development literature: The organization as host, cage, and promise -- Chapter Two: From youth worker professional development to organizational change -- Chapter Three: Use of research for transforming youth agencies -- Chapter Four: Youth advisory structures: Listening to young people to support quality youth services -- Chapter Five: Shaping partnerships by doing the work -- Chapter Six: What can local foundations do to support youth service system change efforts? -- Chapter Seven: From lessons learned to emerging practices -- Proem -- Preface -- 1: Missing in the youth development literature: The organization as host, cage, and promise -- Scenarios -- First scenario -- Second scenario -- Third scenario -- Fourth scenario -- Research agenda: Questions that will always remain -- 2: From youth worker professional development to organizational change -- The contexts -- Training philosophy and ethos -- Building and sustaining meaningful relationships with young people -- Cocreating a space for learning and change -- Being a reflective practitioner -- Community organizing -- Professional development structure -- Phases of the professional development groups -- The diagnostic phase -- Enhancing youth program skills -- Organizing and social action -- What was accomplished? -- Personal and professional development -- Organizational development -- Challenges and barriers -- Lessons learned -- Was it worth the effort? -- Concluding thoughts: Can this be done elsewhere? -- 3: Use of research for transforming youth agencies -- The work -- The research process -- Phase I: Prestudy -- Politics -- Opening the door -- Phase II: Preparing for the study -- Phase III: Data analysis -- Phase IV: Write-up. 
505 8 |a Final thoughts on the research process -- Lessons learned -- Research on agency change -- Workers -- Students -- The university -- Role of faculty with the agency -- Role of faculty with students -- Role of faculty in relation to their studies -- Emily's role -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Sample of student studies -- Course examples -- Study Highlight: "I Was Raised in the Gym" -- 4: Youth advisory structures: Listening to young people to support quality youth services -- Youth advisory structures as a response and contributor -- First study -- Second study -- Third study -- Youth advisory groups: A brief description -- Youth advice structures: Symbolic or substantive? -- Voice -- Moving toward the use of expressed ideas -- Preparation and training -- Modes of expression -- Third research study: Process and practice -- The process -- Discussion -- Lessons learned -- Lesson 1: Shift from opinion giving to informed idea -- Lesson 2: Focus on giving advice and work to ensure that advice gets used -- Lesson 3: Authentic youth advisory structures meet a moral test -- Lesson 4: Young people deserve a place at the table in addition to doing the work -- Lesson 5: Reinvention of support structures -- A final note -- 5: Shaping partnerships by doing the work -- Partnerships that work -- Why these partnerships worked -- Partnerships do not always work -- Lessons learned -- Conclusion -- 6: What can local foundations do to support youth service system change efforts? -- Evaluation process -- Identified program strengths -- Lessons learned -- 7: From lessons learned to emerging practices -- Other useful knowledge: Practice wisdom, rules of thumb, folk wisdom, craft knowledge, and more -- Lessons learned assessed -- From article 2 -- From article 3 -- From article 4 -- From article 5 -- From article 6. 
505 8 |a Extracting the potentially useful: Reading for borrowing and adapting research and practice for use? -- The process of use -- Action hypothesis -- Change agent roles -- Useful constructs and concepts for self and group reflection -- Conclusion -- Index. 
520 |a This volume tells the story of major organizational change efforts at one municipal youth-serving organization to better support healthy youth development system wide. Presenting the viewpoints of young people, frontline staff, supervisors, managers, and the director, it reviews how the organization developed and transformed. Each article then describes the different strategies and tactics used to support organizational transformation. Learn: How a youth work professional development strategy ended up as an organizational development and change strategy How the partnership with a university expanded to include community-based research and evaluation to support youth program development and improvement within the organization. How youth advice structures can support high-quality youth programming and, by extension, improvements in organizational supports for quality youth programs How partnerships with other organizations supported ongoing adaptation of the organization to better address youth needs This is the 139th volume of New Directions for Youth Development, the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series dedicated to bringing together everyone concerned with helping young people, including scholars, practitioners, and people from different disciplines and professions. 
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590 |a Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2023. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.  
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