Youth Empowerment Solutions for Peaceful Communities: Combining Theory and Practice in a Community-Level Violence Prevention Curriculum

Health Promotion Practice

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 425-439

  Zimmerman, Marc A ^a   Stewart, Sarah E ^b   Morrel Samuels, Susan ^a   Franzen, Susan ^a   Reischl, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b Regional Center for Healthy Communities   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescent; community development; curriculum; ecological theory; Positive Youth Development; violence prevention; youth empowerment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMMUNITY CARE; CURRICULUM; EDUCATIONAL MODEL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; LEADERSHIP; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SOCIAL CHANGE; VIOLENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADULT; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; COMMUNITY-INSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; CURRICULUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; LEADERSHIP; MALE; MODELS, EDUCATIONAL; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOCIAL CHANGE; VIOLENCE;

EID: 80052051393     PISSN: 15248399     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1524839909357316     Document Type: Article

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