Engaging and Empowering Aboriginal Youth

A Toolkit for Service Providers

von Chiodo, Crooks, Fr D. Ric Thomas

164 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Not a week goes by without a negative news story reporting the rates of problem behaviors among Canada's aboriginal youth. These statistics don't tell the whole story, and the paradigm must shift from focusing on deficits to a more strengths-based approach. Engaging and Empowering Aboriginal Youth presents a wide range of guidelines, strategies, templates, and case studies for those who work with aboriginal youth. Divided into five sections, this toolkit ¿ provides a historical context for understanding the challenges facing aboriginal youth and makes a case for the importance of building youth engagement and empowerment;¿ offers a series of assessment tools to help identify the starting point for change;¿ identifies four key tenets of effective programming with aboriginal youth: understanding and integrating cultural identity, increasing youth engagement, fostering youth empowerment, and establishing and maintaining effective partnerships;¿ highlights challenges and opportunities in working with partners in the educational system;¿ offers a range of considerations for program evaluation and other types of research.A guide for frontline service providers, facilitators, educators, community partners, and researchers to adapt or develop programs, Engaging and Empowering Aboriginal Youth combines conceptual guidelines and practical strategies.

• Themen: Kinder, Jugendliche und Bildung Allgemeine Interessen Regionen, Orte und Menschen
• ISBN: 9781426942679
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.10.2010
• Größe: 280 x 216 mm
• Verlag: Trafford Publishing