| Engaging and Empowering Aboriginal Youth: A Toolkit for Service Providers Contributor(s): Crooks (Author), Chiodo (Author), Thomas, D. Ric (Author) |
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ISBN: 1426942672 ISBN-13: 9781426942679 Publisher: Trafford Publishing OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback Published: October 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places - Canada - Native Canadian |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 8.5" W x 11.08" (1.19 lbs) 164 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Not a week goes by without a negative news story reporting the rates of problem behaviors among Canada's aboriginal youth. These statistics don't tell the whole story, and the paradigm must shift from focusing on deficits to a more strengths-based approach. Engaging and Empowering Aboriginal Youth presents a wide range of guidelines, strategies, templates, and case studies for those who work with aboriginal youth. Divided into five sections, this toolkit provides a historical context for understanding the challenges facing aboriginal youth and makes a case for the importance of building youth engagement and empowerment; offers a series of assessment tools to help identify the starting point for change; identifies four key tenets of effective programming with aboriginal youth: understanding and integrating cultural identity, increasing youth engagement, fostering youth empowerment, and establishing and maintaining effective partnerships; highlights challenges and opportunities in working with partners in the educational system; offers a range of considerations for program evaluation and other types of research. A guide for frontline service providers, facilitators, educators, community partners, and researchers to adapt or develop programs, Engaging and Empowering Aboriginal Youth combines conceptual guidelines and practical strategies." |