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Table of Contents

Abstract....................................................................................................................48

Introduction..............................................................................................................48

Review of Literature.................................................................................................49

    Social Justice Youth Development, A Framework................................................50

Methodology: Qualitative Sampling, Data Collection, and Analysis........................50

    Sampling...............................................................................................................50

    Community Selection...........................................................................................50

    Site Selection........................................................................................................51

    Participant Selection.............................................................................................51

    Qualitative Data Collection..................................................................................51

    Qualitative Data Analysis.....................................................................................51

Results......................................................................................................................52

    Participants...........................................................................................................52

    Social Justice Youth Development: Across Organizations...................................53

    Youth Empowerment (YE):The Process..............................................................54

        YE Critical Consciousness................................................................................54

        YE Social Action...............................................................................................54

    People for Change (PFC):The Process.................................................................55

        PFC Background................................................................................................55

        PFC Critical Consciousness...............................................................................55

        PFC Social Action..............................................................................................55

    Neighborhood Arts (NE):The Process...................................................................56

        NE Background...................................................................................................56

        NE Critical Consciousness..................................................................................56

        NE Social Action.................................................................................................56

Discussions............................................................................................................56

Implications........................................................................................................57

    For SJYD practitioners: Preparation and professional development is important..57

    For SJYD practitioners: Work in community, not as individuals............................58

    For policy makers and organization leaders:Systems need to change....................58

Conclusion.............................................................................................................58

References...............................................................................................................58

Table 1 Practices in the Realm of Risk Resilience and Prevention; and Positive, 

    Civic, and Social Justice Development....................................................................49

Table 2 Youth Empowerment Participants...................................................................52

Table 3 People for Change Participants.......................................................................52

Table 4 Neighborhood Arts Participants......................................................................53

Table 5 All Participants: Demographics.......................................................................53

Table 6 Social Action at Youth Empowerment.............................................................54

Table 7 Critical Consciousness and Social Action........................................................57

The author set her paper up in a way that defines her purpose and method of research. Ms Clemons gave clear definitions of what types of practices are used in youth development by youth practitioners and examined multiple youth programs to give an overview of how these types of programs support Social Justice Youth Development in differing ways. For each program she focused on three areas; background, critical consciousness, and social action making it easy to compare each program. Tables were used to give clear information that was easy to interpret. 

For more articles on whats being researched in the field of youth development click the link below. 

Journal of Youth Development

FYI- The blogger did not align my table of contents as it was written prior to publishing. Sorry if the numbers a askew.