Engaging and Empowering Aboriginal Youth: A Toolkit for Service Providers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781426942679)

Not a week goes by without a negative news story reporting the rates of problem behaviors among Canada's aboriginal youth. These statistics don't tell the whole story, and the paradigm must shift from focusing on deficits to a more strengths-based approach. Engaging and Empowering Aboriginal Youth presents a wide range of guidelines, strategies, templates, and case studies for those who work with aboriginal youth. Divided into five sections, this toolkit - provides a historical context for understanding the challenges facing aboriginal youth and makes a case for the importance of building youth engagement and empowerment; - offers a series of assessment tools to help identify the starting point for change; - identifies four key tenets of effective programming with aboriginal youth: understanding and integrating cultural identity, increasing youth engagement, fostering youth empowerment, and establishing and maintaining effective partnerships; - highlights challenges and opportunities in working with partners in the educational system; - offers a range of considerations for program evaluation and other types of research. A guide for frontline service providers, facilitators, educators, community partners, and researchers to adapt or develop programs, Engaging and Empowering Aboriginal Youth combines conceptual guidelines and practical strategies.

Author: Crooks, Chiodo, D. Ric Thomas
ISBN-10: 1426942672
ISBN-13: 9781426942679
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Language: English
Published: 10/13/2010
Pages: 164
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 11.08h x 8.50w x 0.47d