scholarly journals Incorporating Cultural Competence & Youth Program Volunteers: A Literature Review

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julianne Smith ◽  
Katherine E. Soule
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Youth Services ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Service Workers ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Youth Program

The increasing diversity of youth in the United States necessitates a shift in the ways that youth services and programming are designed and implemented. This article examines existing scholarship on developing the cultural competency of volunteers in youth development programs in an effort to improve 4-H YDP protocol. Drawing from a diverse, interdisciplinary range of peer-reviewed, academic articles, this literature review plots out recent pedagogical trends, theoretical concepts, and empirical studies dealing with the cultural competence of service workers and mentors interacting with youth. Based on a synthesis of the findings, this paper presents guiding principles for increasing cultural competence of youth program design through both training and organizational changes.

scholarly journals Diversity and Inclusion in Youth Development: What We Can Learn from Marginalized Young People

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 94-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen T. Russell ◽  
Kali Van Campen
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Positive Development ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Youth Development Programs ◽  
Diversity And Inclusion ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Bisexual And Transgender ◽  
Race Ethnicity

As we commemorate 100 years of youth development programs whose origins are traced to organizations founded in the United States, we consider key insights as well as strategies relevant for diversity and inclusion. Many of the large, mainstream youth development organizations and programs that were founded over a century ago now primarily serve youth in the “mainstream”: youth from the middle classes, traditional families, and dominant cultural groups. A growing body of scholarship considers the positive development of youth who are marginalized due to their social class, ability, sexuality, citizenship status, race, ethnicity, or culture. We draw insights from studies of youth and families who are immigrants, or who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT). These findings provide a vantage point for considering ways that contemporary youth development organizations might stretch the margins, or adapt their practices, in order to reach and include all youth.

Urbanized Defense Communities: A Literature Review on the Policies, Politics, and Planning of Military Readiness and Local Land Use in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 088541222110127
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Clanahan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Land Use ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Rapid Population Growth ◽  
Military Installations ◽  
Institutional Responses ◽  
Land Use Policies

Propelled in the United States during the twentieth century, land use compatibility issues between military installations and neighboring communities amplified due to rapid population growth, sprawling regional development, and limited intergovernmental planning. This literature review examines how the policies, politics, and planning practices aimed at combating land use incompatibilities in defense communities changed from the early twentieth century to today. Through the consolidation of established theories, this article reveals a reactive paradigm shift in institutional responses. The triaxial spectrum presented in this review offers a theoretical framework for future empirical studies of defense land use policies, politics, and planning practices.

scholarly journals Community Youth Development Service-Learning: Trauma-Informed and Culturally Responsive

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-114
Author(s):  
Philip Monte Verde ◽  
Marie Watkins ◽  
Donovan Enriquez ◽  
Shalym Nater-Vazquez ◽  
John C. Harris, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Service Learning ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Culturally Responsive ◽  
The United States ◽  
Youth Workers ◽  
Youth Services ◽  
Complete Spectrum ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Trauma Informed

As the demographics of the United States change, it is important for youth workers to be able to adapt. Most established forms of youth services model the norms and values of the dominant Western culture. To best engage with a complete spectrum of youth, it is vital to take their backgrounds into account. This means being trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and mindful of serving the whole community. This article demonstrates how these salient frameworks informed a partnership between service-learning university students and Puerto Rican youth who were displaced by Hurricane Maria in 2017.

scholarly journals Will I be Able to Understand My Mentee? Examining the Potential Risk of the Dominant Culture Mentoring Marginalized Youth

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Lindwall
Keyword(s):  
Youth Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
Mentoring Program ◽  
Youth Workers ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Marginalized Youth ◽  
Dominant Culture ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
Potential Risks

Most people would agree they want to live in a world where every child has what he or she needs to thrive and grow into a healthy and productive adult. It is estimated that 5,000 mentoring programs serve 3,000,000 youth in the United States alone (DuBois, Portillo, Rhodes, Silverthorn, & Valentine, 2011).  In many of these programs, a majority of the mentors are matched with a mentee who comes from a culture and community they know very little about. Many of the youth development programs that were founded and implemented by people of the perceived dominant culture represent their values and cultural experience. To look more deeply into this, my primary research included seven one-on-one interviews with experienced youth workers, most who currently work at a community or site-based mentoring program.  This article is a summary of their responses and reflections on the potential risks invovled in matching across culture and considers how we might work together to mitigate these risks for the youth we serve. 

scholarly journals Covering our Bases: A Military 4-H Youth Development Program

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-118
Author(s):  
Joanne Roueche ◽  
Debra A. Jones
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Air Force ◽  
Development Program ◽  
The United States ◽  
Development Programs ◽  
Land Grant Universities ◽  
Military Installation ◽  
Army Air Force ◽  
The Military

Land-grant universities, through the 4-H program, have offered support and partnership to the military since World War I. More recently, the U. S. Army, Air Force, and 4-H have partnered to provide military installation youth programs involving over 7,000 youth in 4-H clubs in the United States and abroad. Military youth and families, not affiliated with Base or Post installations, were extended similar support as an aftermath of September 11, 2001. All youth involved through military outreach are enrolled as 4-H members through their respective counties integrating them into local, state, regional, and national 4-H activities and events. Authors share their experience developing relationships with their Air Force partner in implementing positive youth development programs, and explain how these actions resulted in successful funding for increased outreach.

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