In High Impact Practices with Urban Youth--Circles at the Center: A Guidebook for Practitioners and Scholar-Activists, Yan Dominic Searcy and Troy Harden provide research-based best practices in an accessible format to bridge the gap between practitioners and researchers who are specifically working to improve the life outcomes of urban youth. The best youth work combines art and science. Searcy and Harden effectively blend both to ground the next generation of interventions aimed at improving youth program outcomes.
In High Impact Practices with Urban Youth--Circles at the Center: A Guidebook for Practitioners and Scholar-Activists, Yan Dominic Searcy and Troy Harden provide research-based best practices in an accessible format to bridge the gap between practitioners and researchers who are specifically working to improve the life outcomes of urban youth. The best youth work combines art and science. Searcy and Harden effectively blend both to ground the next generation of interventions aimed at improving youth program outcomes.
Yan Dominic Searcy, PhD, is Dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences at California State University, Northridge. He has worked with the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services and Boys and Girls Clubs, volunteered with agencies addressing sexual violence and youth homeless shelters, and created a curriculum for youth leadership programs and a university-based program to increase retention and graduation rates of minoritized youth. Searcy has worked with youth for more than 30 years. Troy Harden, PhD, LCSW, is Director of the Race and Ethnic Studies Institute at Texas A&M University. He has worked closely with Communities Partnering for Peace (CP4P), is the lead researcher with the Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance's Community-based Crime Reduction Grant in Englewood, and is a member of Mayor Lori Lightfoot's Public Safety Research Advisory Committee. Harden has more than 25 years of experience working in higher education and community settings.
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* Introduction * Chapter 1: An Introduction to High Impact Practices * Chapter 2: Theory Informing Practices * Chapter 3: Program Team Building: Leadership Matters * Chapter 4: Recruitment, Retention, and Participation * Chapter 5: Discussion Circles: Centering Programming and Crafting Cohesion * Chapter 6: Content before Curriculum * Chapter 7: Fostering Youth Leadership * Chapter 8: Retreats * Chapter 9: Crafting Celebrity and Celebrations: The Importance of Public Events for Presenting, Performing, and Uplifting Accomplishment * Chapter 10: Post-Program Follow-up * Epilogue: Rocket Science * References
