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The Power of Prevention and Youth Voice: A Strategy for Social Work to Ensure Youths' Healthy Development
Linda Sprague Martinez1, Katie Richards-Schuster1, Samantha Teixeira1
1Linda Sprague Martinez, PhD, is a Center for Promise research fellow and assistant professor, Macro Department, School of Social Work, Boston University, 264 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215; e-mail: lsmarti@bu.edu. Katie Richards-Schuster, PhD, is assistant professor, School of Social Work, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Samantha Teixeira, PhD, is assistant professor, School of Social Work, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA. Astraea Augsberger, PhD, is assistant professor, Department of Clinical Practice, School of Social Work, Boston University. The research described in the case studies was supported by Target, Boston College, the Boston University Initiative on Cities, and the Community Foundation for Southeast Michigan.
Abstract:
The opening plenary session at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Society for Social Work and Research, which focused on ensuring healthy youth development, highlighted the need to include young people as partners in research and evaluation. In doing so, the conference participants joined the voices of a growing group of social work scholars committed to youth participation and engagement, who have also highlighted the importance of youth voice in the development of prevention strategies and programming that are aligned with the lived experience of young people. Presenting four unique social work efforts designed to harness the power of youth voice, this article shines a spotlight on the role of social work research and practice in harnessing the power of youth participation in efforts of promote healthy youth development. This article concludes by illustrating the benefits of youth engagement for young people, communities, and researchers.
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