BOOK REVIEW: A Place to Call Home: After-School Programs for Urban Youth.
Titel:
BOOK REVIEW: A Place to Call Home: After-School Programs for Urban Youth.
Auteur:
Reio, Jr., Thomas G. Bratton, Angela R.
Verschenen in:
Journal of education for students placed at risk
Paginering:
Jaargang 11 (2006) nr. 2 pagina's 221-226
Jaar:
2006-04-01
Inhoud:
Policymakers, researchers, educators, parents, and citizens alike recognize the need for quality programs that address the pressing developmental and learning needs of our youth, particularly those most at risk. Community-based youth programs are being viewed increasingly as a productive means to facilitate the successful physical, social, emotional, and cognitive development of adolescents (Girod, Martineau, & Zhao, 2004). To address the challenges of growing up in unhealthy environments where high-risk behaviors such as smoking, drinking, experimentation with drugs, physical violence, and unprotected sex can lead to profound negative outcomes, carefully organized and supervised after-school programs have been developed to provide a positive alternative to such problematic adolescent activity (Riggs & Greenberg, 2004). Notwithstanding, research evidence of program effectiveness—academic and otherwise—is scant, which sets the stage for underresearched after-school programs to be eyed with greater fiscal scrutiny.
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