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Part I. Introduction: 1. The quality of after-school centers; Part II. Midwest Center: 2. Pockets of excellence; 3. Pocahontas joins the tribe; 4. Bill: the pros and cons of being one of the guys; 5. Putting it all together: Midwest Center; Part III. North River Center: 6. A study of organizational dysfunction; 7. Undercutting Tweetie: the trials and tribulations of a youth leader; 8. Beyonce: a good friend is hard to find (and keep); 9. Putting it all together: North River and Midwest Centers; Part IV. West River Center: 10. The jewel in the crown; 11. Midnight: a teen father stays the course; 12. Tommiana: a contest between closeness and competition; 13. Putting it all together: what have we learned?; Part V. Conclusion: 14. Recommendations for improving practice.
This book examines after-school programs, exploring how – and why – young people thrive in good programs and suffer in weak ones.
Barton J. Hirsch is Professor of Human Development and Social Policy at Northwestern University. An internationally recognized authority on after-school programs and positive youth development, his earlier book, A Place to Call Home: After-School Programs for Urban Youth, won the Social Policy Award for Best Authored Book from the Society for Research on Adolescence. Nancy L. Deutsch is Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Foundations at the University of Virginia's Curry School of Education and Associate Director for Methodology at Youth-NEX, University of Virginia's Center for Effective Youth Development. A scholar of the socio-ecological contexts of development, she is the author of Pride in the Projects: Teens Building Identities in Urban Contexts. David L. DuBois is Professor in the Division of Community Health Sciences within the School of Public Health at the University of Illinois, Chicago. His research focuses on youth mentoring relationships and programs for positive youth development. He is the co-editor of the Handbook of Youth Mentoring, which received the Social Policy Award for Best Edited Book from the Society for Research on Adolescence.
“This book does a superb job of showing us the difference between
what high quality and low quality organizations for youth look
like, from the inside out, from the administrative style of the
director down to the smallest daily interactions between youth and
staff.”
– Reed Larson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
“Hisrsch, Deutsch, and DuBois bring much needed precision to the
study of after-school programs. Other studies have shown that
program quality varies and demonstrated that quality matters. By
focusing on three similar programs, this book tells us how they
vary and chronicles the impact these differences have on individual
youth. The conceptual framework is powerful in its practical
simplicity. The case studies’ dual depiction of the organizations
and two of their youths makes this a page turner. The
recommendations for improved practice are fresh and specific, and
having innovative practices such as collective mentoring and youth
councils on the list will propel the field into some overdue
discussions. They have definitely turned the lights on in the
after-school ‘black box."
– Karen Pittman, CEO of The Forum for Youth Investment
"...The authors’ description of the organizational and
interpersonal dynamics in the three clubs in their book will have
strong appeal and value to researchers and practitioners interested
in ideas for improving the quality of after-school centers for
today’s adolescents.... Hirsch, Deutsch, and DuBois have provided
dramatic evidence for motivating improvements in the organizational
cultures of after-school centers so that staff members can say
wholeheartedly, “It’s all about the kids.”
– Patricia Ashton, University of Florida, PsycCRITIQUES
"...We recommend After-School Centers and Youth Development as
valuable reading for anyone concerned with youth development and
youth programs. The book is at once soundly grounded in research,
while also providing vivid stories that illustrate the enormous
range of real-life dynamics in youth organizations. For policy
makers and researchers, it is a wake-up call for the importance of
a holistic perspective. For undergraduate and graduate students,
the book can serve as an effective text that will spark critical
conversations tied to theory, management, and child development.
For practitioners, the final chapter provides reasonable
recommendations on ways of instituting strategies to create a
synergistic organization that reverberates high quality and
addresses disorder on all levels."
–Aisha Griffith and Reed Larson, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Social Service Review,
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