The Rhode Island Teen Institute: Positive Youth Development in Practice
This article describes the application of the positive youth development approach to promote and enhance leadership skills among middle and high school age peer leaders. The article reviews the goals of the positive youth development approach and describes how this approach was adopted and implemen...
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Clemson University Press
2010-03-01
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| author | Robert Apsler Sandra Puerini Del Sesto Scott W. Formica Maureen Mulligan |
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| description | This article describes the application of the positive youth development approach to promote and enhance leadership skills among middle and high school age peer leaders. The article reviews the goals of the positive youth development approach and describes how this approach was adopted and implemented by the Rhode Island Teen Institute (RITI), a comprehensive, residential prevention program founded in 1989. Data are presented from pretests and posttests administered during each of seven annual Institutes delivered between 2002 and 2009 with 775 youth. Participants in the RITI demonstrated significant gains in their leadership skills; an effect that persisted at a 3-month follow-up survey administered with high school age youth. Other significant findings and anecdotal effects are also discussed, such as creation by RITI graduates of a youth-led prevention program for elementary and middle school children. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4e8d4242966946178f5fba47f169e5242024-02-02T10:08:09ZengClemson University PressJournal of Youth Development2325-40172010-03-0151859610.5195/jyd.2010.233211The Rhode Island Teen Institute: Positive Youth Development in PracticeRobert Apsler0Sandra Puerini Del Sesto1Scott W. Formica2Maureen Mulligan3Social Science Research & Evaluation, Inc.Initiatives for Human DevelopmentSocial Science Research & Evaluation, Inc.Initiatives for Human DevelopmentThis article describes the application of the positive youth development approach to promote and enhance leadership skills among middle and high school age peer leaders. The article reviews the goals of the positive youth development approach and describes how this approach was adopted and implemented by the Rhode Island Teen Institute (RITI), a comprehensive, residential prevention program founded in 1989. Data are presented from pretests and posttests administered during each of seven annual Institutes delivered between 2002 and 2009 with 775 youth. Participants in the RITI demonstrated significant gains in their leadership skills; an effect that persisted at a 3-month follow-up survey administered with high school age youth. Other significant findings and anecdotal effects are also discussed, such as creation by RITI graduates of a youth-led prevention program for elementary and middle school children.http://jyd.pitt.edu/ojs/jyd/article/view/233 |
| spellingShingle | Robert Apsler Sandra Puerini Del Sesto Scott W. Formica Maureen Mulligan The Rhode Island Teen Institute: Positive Youth Development in Practice Journal of Youth Development |
| title | The Rhode Island Teen Institute: Positive Youth Development in Practice |
| title_full | The Rhode Island Teen Institute: Positive Youth Development in Practice |
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| title_full_unstemmed | The Rhode Island Teen Institute: Positive Youth Development in Practice |
| title_short | The Rhode Island Teen Institute: Positive Youth Development in Practice |
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