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Youth‐led activities associated with positive competence changes in a community‐based program for adolescents

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This article is published in Child & Family Social Work.The article was published on 2018-11-01. It has received 8 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Positive Youth Development & Competence (human resources).

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Implementation factors that predict positive outcomes in a community-based intervention program for at-risk adolescents

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of the Building My Future program's implementation variables on attendance rate and on changes in personal, problem-solving, and community competencies, and found that having a facilitator with less professional experience, attending larger groups, having a high level of family involvement, and performing fewer modules and fewer extra activities predicted higher attendance rates and more positive task orientation, self-concept, social realization, and problem solving competencies.
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How do communities intervene with adolescents at psychosocial risk? A systematic review of positive development programs

TL;DR: A systematic literature search was carried out following the PRISMA guidelines to identify the characteristics of group-based programs (location, participants, aims, referral, enrollment, facilitator, method, and duration) and the quality level of their evaluation (emerging, promising, and best practice) as discussed by the authors.

Competences of Adult Learning Facilitators in Community Service Learning: A Review of Literatures

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the competences of adult learning facilitators in community service learning programs and found that there are five main competences that should be mastered by a learning facilitator in community services, such as: knowledge, management, communication, assessment, and motivation.
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Positive Adolescent Development: Effects of a Psychosocial Intervention Program in a Rural Setting.

TL;DR: Evidence indicates that the DPAR program is effective in promoting positive adolescent development and addresses the lack of programs based on the PYD approach in rural areas.
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An Examination of the Community Participation Interests of Young Adults with Serious Mental Illnesses.

TL;DR: Examination of participation interests of young adults with serious mental illnesses revealed a range of community participation areas of interest to these individuals, including employment, education, religion and spirituality, social networking, and civic and artistic participation.
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Hierarchical Grouping to Optimize an Objective Function

TL;DR: In this paper, a procedure for forming hierarchical groups of mutually exclusive subsets, each of which has members that are maximally similar with respect to specified characteristics, is suggested for use in large-scale (n > 100) studies when a precise optimal solution for a specified number of groups is not practical.
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Implementation Matters: A Review of Research on the Influence of Implementation on Program Outcomes and the Factors Affecting Implementation

TL;DR: The collection of implementation data is an essential feature of program evaluations, and more information is needed on which and how various factors influence implementation in different community settings.
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Global self-esteem across the life span.

TL;DR: Overall, these findings support previous research, help clarify inconsistencies in the literature, and document new trends that require further investigation.
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Differing profiles of developmental experiences across types of organized youth activities.

TL;DR: Youth reported all of these positive developmental experiences to occur significantly more often in youth programs than during school classes, and sports and arts programs stood out as providing more experiences related to development of initiative, although sports were also related to high stress.
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Unstructured socializing and rates of delinquency

TL;DR: In this paper, an individual-level routine activities perspective was applied to explain rates of delinquency, and the opportunity processes of that perspective were linked to key themes of social disorganization theory.
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