Community Youth Development: A Partnership for Action.

Abstract

The concept of Community Youth Development is introduced and explained to raise the level of accountability, significance, and urgency for developing comprehen-sive responses to the epidemic of risk facing America’s youth. The two theoretical models of adolescence (i.e., Positive Youth Development and Risk and Resiliency) that are employed as the pillars of this approach are also presented. The key compo-nents that comprise the community youth development framework are discussed, along with implications for practitioners, researchers, and policy. Community Youth Development: A Partnership for Action Parents, teachers, faith communities, professionals in youth development, family consumer sciences, and human services fields are all asking similar questions pertain-ing to young people: • “What does it take to create a community that will offer the positive opportu-nities that can promote the optimal development of all young people?” • “What can a community do to prevent youth violence?”

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