Add hope, engagement and well-being to the top of the list of things we want to see in our young people. A press conference was held in D.C. yesterday to announce the results of the Gallup Student Poll, a new Web-based survey administered anonymously in America’s schools that measures the hope, engagement and well-being of [...]
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Learn from Lerner
Dr. Richard Lerner wrote a book called The Good Teen: Rescuing Adolescence from the Myths of the Storm and Stress Years. Get it. Read it. Here is a nice excerpt from the book that focuses on why the deficit model to youth development is deficient and why government programs and policies that focus on [...]
Begging for Change
A recent survey conducted by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Civil Society Studies asked charity executives what a new presidential administration could do to help nonprofit groups. According to these nonprofit leaders, their No. 1 priority for a new administration is the ”growth of federal funds” for ‘their’ cause. How uninspiring!
Other priorities on the list include [...]
Quote of the week
The Quote of the Week comes from Peter Block’s book, Community: The Structure of Belonging:
“Most sustainable improvements in community occur when citizens discover their own power to act. Whatever the symptom — drugs, deteriorating houses, poor economy, displacement, violence — it is when citizens stop waiting for professionals or elected leadership to do something, and decide [...]
3 Cheers for 4-H
Holy Cow! The National 4-H Council issued a great PYD-related report back in May and it is just now making its way across my desk. The report, entitled The Positive Development of Youth: Findings from the First Four Years of the 4-H Study of Positive Youth Development, was written by Richard Lerner and his colleagues [...]
