Transforming Youth Serving Organizations to Support Healthy Youth Development : New Directions for Youth Development, Number 139

This volume tells the story of major organizational change efforts at one municipal youth-serving organization to better support healthy youth development system wide. Presenting the viewpoints of young people, frontline staff, supervisors, managers, and the director, it reviews how the organization developed and transformed. Each article then describes the different strategies and tactics used to support organizational transformation. Learn: How a youth work professional development strategy ended up as an organizational development and change strategy How the partnership with a university expanded to include community-based research and evaluation to support youth program development and improvement within the organization. How youth advice structures can support high-quality youth programming and, by extension, improvements in organizational supports for quality youth programs How partnerships with other organizations supported ongoing adaptation of the organization to better address youth needs This is the 139th volume of New Directions for Youth Development, the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series dedicated to bringing together everyone concerned with helping young people, including scholars, practitioners, and people from different disciplines and professions. This Volume Tells The Story Of Major Organizational Change Efforts At One Municipal Youth-serving Organization To Better Support Healthy Youth Development System Wide. Presenting The Viewpoints Of Young People, Frontline Staff, Supervisors, Managers, And The Director, It Reviews How The Organization Developed And Transformed. Each Article Then Describes The Different Strategies And Tactics Used To Support Organizational Transformation. Issue Editors' Notes / Ross Velure Roholt ... [et Al.] -- Executive Summary -- Proem / Christopher B. Coleman -- Preface / Michael Hahm -- Missing In The Youth Development Literature: The Organization As Host, Cage, And Promise / Ross Velure Roholt ... [et Al.] -- From Youth Worker Professional Development To Organizational Change / Sheetal Rana ... [et Al.] -- Use Of Research For Transforming Youth Agencies / Michael Baizerman, Emily Rence, Sean Johnson -- Youth Advisory Structures: Listening To Young People To Support Quality Youth Services / Ross Velure Roholt, Megan Mueller -- Shaping Partnerships By Doing The Work / Kathy Korum -- What Can Local Foundations Do To Support Youth Service System Change Efforts? / Wokie Weah, Marcus Pope -- From Lessons Learned To Emerging Practices / Michael Baizerman ... [et Al.]. Ross Velure Roholt ... [et Al.], Issue Editors. Fall 2013. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.