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The Power of Prevention and Youth Voice: A Strategy for Social Work to Ensure Youths' Healthy Development.
Sprague Martinez, Linda; Richards-Schuster, Katie; Teixeira, Samantha; Augsberger, Astraea.
Affiliation
  • Sprague Martinez L; Linda Sprague Martinez, PhD, is a Center for Promise research fellow and assistant professor, Macro Department, School of Social Work, Boston University, 264 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215; e-mail: lsmarti@bu.edu. Katie Richards-Schuster, PhD, is assistant professor, School of Social Work, Univers
  • Richards-Schuster K; Linda Sprague Martinez, PhD, is a Center for Promise research fellow and assistant professor, Macro Department, School of Social Work, Boston University, 264 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215; e-mail: lsmarti@bu.edu. Katie Richards-Schuster, PhD, is assistant professor, School of Social Work, Univers
  • Teixeira S; Linda Sprague Martinez, PhD, is a Center for Promise research fellow and assistant professor, Macro Department, School of Social Work, Boston University, 264 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215; e-mail: lsmarti@bu.edu. Katie Richards-Schuster, PhD, is assistant professor, School of Social Work, Univers
  • Augsberger A; Linda Sprague Martinez, PhD, is a Center for Promise research fellow and assistant professor, Macro Department, School of Social Work, Boston University, 264 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215; e-mail: lsmarti@bu.edu. Katie Richards-Schuster, PhD, is assistant professor, School of Social Work, Univers
Soc Work ; 63(2): 135-143, 2018 Apr 01.
Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29373731
The opening plenary session at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, which focused on ensuring healthy youth development, highlighted the need to include young people as partners in research and evaluation. In doing so, the conference participants joined the voices of a growing group of social work scholars committed to youth participation and engagement, who have also highlighted the importance of youth voice in the development of prevention strategies and programming that are aligned with the lived experience of young people. Presenting four unique social work efforts designed to harness the power of youth voice, this article shines a spotlight on the role of social work research and practice in harnessing the power of youth participation in efforts of promote healthy youth development. This article concludes by illustrating the benefits of youth engagement for young people, communities, and researchers.

Full text: 1 Database: MEDLINE Language: En Journal: Soc Work Year: 2018 Type: Article

Full text: 1 Database: MEDLINE Language: En Journal: Soc Work Year: 2018 Type: Article