Trends
and Research Links for Youth Leadership
The resources and links listed below are in no
particular order and are updated regularly.
Washington Youth Voice
Handbook
CommonAction is excited to announce the availability
of the brand-new Washington Youth Voice Handbook.
Based on the work of SoundOut and The Freechild
Project, this publication features 20+ Youth Voice
workshop outlines that road-tested and carefully
designed to increase the knowledge and ability of
young people and adults. It also features a Youth
Voice Assessment exploring multiple aspects of
action; the Washington Youth Voice Directory
including contact information for more than 50
groups statewide, and; a Youth Voice Resource Guide
highlighting organizations, websites, and
publications across the country and around the
world.
National Survey on
Service-Learning and Transitioning To Adulthood
This nationally representative survey — conducted on
behalf of the National Youth Leadership Council™ by
Harris Interactive®, a global market research and
consulting firm — reveals service-learning's
significant impact on the youth-adult transition.
Compared young adults who
participated in K-12 service-learning experiences
with their peers who didn't.
Stanford Center on Adolescence
The Stanford Center on Adolescence aims to promote the character and competence of all young people growing up in today's world.
The Center's work provides guidance for parenting, for improved educational practice, and for youth development in a wide variety of
community settings. Grants offered for research addressing youth purpose (click on "Grants" on left menu bar).
New Directions for Youth
Development - Issue 109 - Youth Leadership
Edited by Max Klau, Steve Boyd,
and Lynn Luckow (Spring 2006). Also available
online.
A Comprehensive Leadership
Education Model to Train, Teach, and Develop
Leadership in Youth
By John C.
Ricketts and Rick D. Rudd, University of Florida,
Journal of Career and Technical Education Volume 19,
Number 1 (Fall 2002)
Relationship Styles, Social
Responsibility and Leadership Development in High
School: A Leadership Development Study by the
Academy of Leadership, University of Maryland
Executive summery (2005) of research conducted is
available by contacting Tracey T. Manning, Ph.D.,
Principal Investigator
(tmanning@academy.umd.edu)
What Makes a Leader? Relative
Age and High School Leadership
By Elizabeth
Dhuey and Stephen Lipscomb, Department of Economics
at the University California, Santa Barbara
(August, 2006)
Info Brief Issue 11: Youth
Development and Youth Leadership in Programs
A brief based on a longer paper, Youth
Development and Youth Leadership, A Background Paper,
published by The National Collaborative on Workforce
and Disability for Youth (January, 2005)
Lessons in Leadership: How
Young People Change Their Communities and Themselves
Executive Summary of the Evaluation of the Youth
Leadership for Development Initiative by The
Innovation Center for Community and Youth
Development (Funded by Ford Foundation, December,
2003)
Building Partnerships for
Youth
A definition and
outline of leadership from a large-scale project of
the National 4-H Council and the University of
Arizona
Youth Leadership Out-of-School
Time Program Evaluation Bibliography
A list of youth leadership
programs being tracked by the Out of School Time
Research of the Harvard Family Research
Project (On-going)
4-H Youth Leadership
Development Program Basics
An article that provides an overview of 4-H youth
leadership programs in Ohio and to outline the
research base and commonalities upon which the
programs are built.
email:
info@youthleadership.com
