Youth and community engagement in integrated youth services

Connecting youth violence prevention, positive youth development, and community mobilization.

Several disconnects serve to weaken the use of evidence based programming in community settings. Communities face the need to address the challenges of multiple risk behaviors faced by adolescents in their communities, but must also work to support successful transitions to adulthood and the broader positive development of their youth. The stronger integration of positive youth development and ...

Youth crisis services: short-term community-based residential treatment.

Youth Participation in Community Evaluation

Should young people participate in community evaluation research and, if so, what roles should they play? We believe that youth participation is desirable, but that it remains relatively undeveloped as a field of practice or subject of study. For this reason, this paper provides perspective on the increasing involvement by young people, identifies the participation patterns and evaluation roles...

Optimising physical activity engagement during youth sport

1 Research suggests participation in youth sport does not guarantee physical activity (PA) 2 guidelines are met. Studies indicate few children achieve recommended levels of moderate3 to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) during their youth sport involvement, and habitual 4 levels of MVPA are below the recommended 60 minutes per day. Informed by self5 determination theory, this study examined whe...

Full Title : Youth Speak : Increasing engagement

Background Patient and Public Involvement is now an essential part of health related research. Evidence suggests that research that involves patients and members of the public can enhance methodological rigor and facilitate the implementation of research findings. Aims Our paper describes the development of a youth research group (Youth Speak) aimed at increasing youth engagement in mental heal...