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Youth in Participatory Action Research

No. 123
Edited by: Tara M. Brown, Louie F. Rodriguez

Fall 2009

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Universities in Partnership: Strategies for Education, Youth Developmen, and Community Renewal

No. 122
Edited by: Ira Harkavy, Matthew Hartley

Summer 2009

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Defining and Measuring Quality in Youth Programs and Classrooms

No. 121
Nicole Yohalem, Robert C. Granger, Karen J. Pittman (Editors)
May 2009

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Framing Youth Development for Public Support No. 124 Edited by: Lynn Davey February 2010 Purchase this issue.

Since 1999, the nonprofit FrameWorks Institute has investigated how Americans think about social issues--from children and youth to education and race--and how scientists, policy experts, and advocates can do a better job of engaging the public in solutions. FrameWorks Institute's empirical approach integrates essential constructs from the cognitive and social sciences to investigate the worldviews and patterns of thinking that ordinary people enlist when considering social problems. The goal of this approach is to deliver communications strategies that are grounded in research and have the potential to change the public debate if they are effectively deployed.

This volume focuses on the theory, research, and practice of FrameWorks' decade of work in evidence-based communications strategies for child and youth issues. The articles explain where this approach is situated within the broader conversation on communications for social change; why an iterative, multimethod process is necessary to determine the communications strategies that will elevate the public dimensions of children's and youth's developmental trajectories; and how experts and advocates are applying these evidence-based communications strategies to their work on behalf of children and youth.