National Center on Secondary Education and Transition: Creating opportunities for youth with disabilities to achieve successful futures.

Youth Development & Leadership

Emerging & Promising Practices

Hall, G., Yohalem, N., Tolman, J., & Wilson, A. (2003). How after-school programs can most effectively promote positive youth development as a support to academic achievement: A report commissioned by the Boston After-School for All Partnership. [Rev. ed.]. Wellesley, MA: National Institute on Out-of-School Time.
This report investigates how after-school programs can most effectively promote positive youth development as a support to academic achievement and outlines the positive youth development approach.

Furlong, M., Paige, L. Z., & Osher, D. (2003). The Safe Schools/Healthy Students (SS/HS) initiative: Lessons learned from implementing comprehensive youth development programs. Psychology in the Schools, 40(5), 447–456.
This article examines the implementation of the SS/HS initiative in seven communities and discusses lessons learned from the project.

Launch a Nonprofit Organization
A recent article in The Los Angeles Times reports on the efforts of socially conscious college students who have opted to start their own foundations and nonprofit organizations. Youth and young adults with disabilities could adapt this model to address specific disability-related issues with those who can assist in creating positive change.
http://www.leadershiponlinewkkf.org/emerging/news/

U.S. Department of Labor – Youth Leadership Forum
Provides an opportunity for youth to serve as delegates from their communities at a four-day event in their state capital, and supports young people with disabilities to cultivate leadership, citizenship, and social skills.
http://www.dol.gov/odep/programs/youth.htm

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Emerging & Promising Practices

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