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Library Resources Filtered by Author:
"Karen Pittman"
Total number of Library Resources: 9
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State Children's Cabinets and Councils: Elements of Success Issue 1: Structural Options
(2008)
As with any organization or entity, a cabinet's ability to do its work effectively is deeply influenced by its structural...
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State Children's Cabinets and Councils: Getting Results for Children and Youth
(2007)
This report delves into why states should have children's cabinets. It provides the rationale behind the Forum's assertion that...
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Building Effective Youth Councils: A Practical Guide to Engaging Youth in Policy Making
(2007)
The guide is designed to help states and localities create or strengthen their own youth councils. It is a synthesis of theory...
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State Youth Policy: Helping All Youth Grow Up Fully Prepared and Fully Engaged
(2002)
While states have put in place scores of youth polices, no state can claim to have a single, coherent youth policy that serves...
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Eight R's for Building Community Within Schools, (The)
(1999)
Pittman describes a meeting with the Learning First Alliance where members discuss how to build community in schools through...
Reflections on a Decade of Promoting Youth Development.
(1998)
This is a look at the field of youth development in the 1990's. The authors offer the following six suggestions for...
Youth Development and Resiliency Research: Making Connections to Substance Abuse Prevention.
(1993)
The research on substance abuse and prevention and intervention strategies is as rich, if not richer, than those developed to...
Pushing the Boundaries of Education: the Implications of a Youth Development Approach to Education Policies, Structures and Collaborations
(1992)
In recent years there have been an extraordinary number of proposals for comprehensive and intensive changes in school...
Youth Serving Organizations Have Much of What Youth Needs
(1989)
The article focuses on the extreme problems facing today's youth, their consequences on the broader society, and solutions to...