Responding to adolescent family violence: Findings from an impact evaluation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hayley Boxall ◽  
Anthony Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Family Violence ◽  
Impact Evaluation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Outcome Evaluation ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
Adolescent Attachment ◽  
Potential Benefits

Despite growing recognition of the prevalence of and harms associated with adolescent family violence, our knowledge of how best to respond remains underdeveloped. This paper describes the findings from the outcome evaluation of the Adolescent Family Violence Program. The results show that the program had a positive impact on young people and their families, leading to improved parenting capacity and parent–adolescent attachment. However, there was mixed evidence of its impact on the prevalence, frequency and severity of violent behaviours. The evaluation reaffirms the importance of dedicated responses for young people who use family violence, and the potential benefits, and limits, of community-based programs.

scholarly journals Article Commentary: Becoming FASD Informed: Strengthening Practice and Programs Working with Women with FASD

2016 ◽  
Vol 10s1 ◽  
pp. SART.S34543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Rutman
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Prenatally Exposed ◽  
Fetal Alcohol ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
Health And Social Care ◽  
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum

There is growing appreciation among health and social care providers, especially those working in community-based programs with women or young people with substance use problems and/or who have experienced violence, maltreatment, or trauma, that a high number of their program participants may have been prenatally exposed to alcohol or have fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD). This article provides a conceptualization of the key components of an FASD-informed approach. Drawing on the emerging literature and the author's research identifying the support needs and promising approaches in working with women, young adults, and adults with FASD, as well as evaluations of FASD-related programs, the article discusses what an FASD-informed approach is, why it is centrally important in working with women, adults, and young people who may have FASD, underlying principles of an FASD-informed approach, and examples of FASD-informed adaptations to practice, programming, and the physical environment. In this discussion, the benefits of using an FASD-informed approach for service providers and women living with FASD and their families, as well as conceptualization of FASD-informed policy and systems are highlighted.

Better Living without Chemistry Some Program Alternatives to Drug Abuse

1974 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-161
Author(s):  
Joel M. Carp ◽  
Melvin Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Drug Users ◽  
Community Building ◽  
The Other ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Building Model ◽  
Community Project ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
Core Issues

The paper described the conceptual underpinnings of two community based programs designed to serve drug users and abusers. Differences and similarities between the two programs, which are located in distinctly different socio-economic neighborhoods, are explored. The authors describe through actual excerpts from case material how the programs work, and the key role of young people as primary helping agents. Both are multi-modality programs. One is designed as a therapeutic community project, while the other uses a community building model. The authors examine some core issues in both programs and discuss the implications of these concerns.

scholarly journals The Role of Youth Program Leaders in the Use of Technology: Challenges and Opportunities for Youth-Serving Organizations

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-94
Author(s):  
Mimi Nichter ◽  
Lynne Borden ◽  
Veronica Przybyl
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Community Based Interventions ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Program Leaders ◽  
Youth Program ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

Youth-serving organizations offer young people an opportunity to gain skills and advance their knowledge of current and evolving technology through experiential learning. The key to ensuring that young people have meaningful learning experiences is directly related to the youth program leader who is responsible for designing and implementing these programs. Programs conducted by well-trained and well-prepared adults are an essential component of community-based interventions. To date, there is relatively limited research on how technology such as smart phones can be used in community-based programs and the success or failure of this as a strategy for delivering information and engaging young people in a program. In this paper, we discuss how technology was introduced into eight programs conducted by youth-serving organizations in the Southwest. We discuss the training of youth program leaders and their experience using technology at their sites, highlighting what worked and what was problematic, how challenges were overcome, and lessons learned.

Redefining ‘Industry’: Young People and Cultural Policy in Australia

1999 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 123-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ann Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
Culture Industry ◽  
Cultural Development ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Statistical Framework ◽  
Leisure Industry

This article considers the place of youth arts and cultures in the cultural industries approach to cultural policy. It argues that the ‘covert economic overlay’ (Brokensha, 1996: 101) of the Australian National Culture–Leisure Industry Statistical Framework privileges certain processes in a ‘government convenient’ model of industry inputs and outcomes, and that the assumptions of this model are challenged by youth-specific and community-based modes of production. Furthermore, it argues that the philosophies and practices of contemporary youth-specific arts organisations have the potential to redefine ‘culture industry’ and contribute to a ‘coherent new paradigm’ of cultural policy (UNESCO, 1995: 232). This paper makes these arguments by examining the place of youth arts and cultures in the existing environment of cultural industrialisation, by considering recent government policy responses to young people's cultural activity and by addressing long-term policy issues for the support of young people and cultural development.

scholarly journals European Youth Work Policy and Young People’s Experience of Open Access Youth Work

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
JON ORD ◽  
MARC CARLETTI ◽  
DANIELE MORCIANO ◽  
LASSE SIURALA ◽  
CHRISTOPHE DANSAC ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Young People ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Policy Formulation ◽  
Youth Work ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Policy Goals ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact ◽  
European Youth

Abstract This article examines young people’s experiences of open access youth work in settings in the UK, Finland, Estonia, Italy and France. It analyses 844 individual narratives from young people, which communicate the impact of youthwork on their lives. These accounts are then analysed in the light of the European youth work policy goals. It concludes that it is encouraging that what young people identify as the positive impact of youth work are broadly consistent with many of these goals. There are however some disparities which require attention. These include the importance young people place on the social context of youth work, such as friendship, which is largely absent in EU youth work policy; as well as the importance placed on experiential learning. The paper also highlights a tension between ‘top down’ policy formulation and the ‘youth centric’ practices of youth work. It concludes with a reminder to policy makers that for youth work to remain successful the spaces and places for young people must remain meaningful to them ‘on their terms’.

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