From Inquiry to Impact
Dr. Nancy Deutsch
More Than Safe Spaces: Adolescent Development and Relationship Building in After-School Settings
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About the topic
More than just keeping kids safe during the 3-6 pm “risk hours,” after-school programs can be vibrant settings that promote positive youth development. Yet much research has focused on measuring specific outcomes, such as academic achievement or risky behaviors.
This presentation will focus on research that looks in-depth at what happens inside after-school programs.
- How do adolescents engage in after-school activities in ways that meet their own developmental needs and promote a positive sense of self?
- How can adult staff members build positive relationships with youth that support teens and further engage them in programs?
- How can after-school settings promote youth development and positive adult-youth relationships and help us create both safe and supportive after-school settings for teens?
Dr. Deutsch will be sharing research findings and implications from her work related to adult-youth relationships. Emphasis will be placed on peer mentoring relationships in youth development settings.
Show Me an Ounce of Respect: Respect and Authority in Adult-Youth Relationships in After-School Programs, (article) Journal of Adolescent Research, By Nancy L. Deutsch and Jeffrey N. Jones.
About Dr. Nancy Deutsch
Nancy L. Deutsch is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership and Foundations at the University of Virginia’s Curry School of Education.
- She is affiliated with the Research, Statistics & Evaluation program as well as Curry’s interdisciplinary doctoral program in Applied Developmental Science/Risk and Prevention.
- Her research focuses on the socio-ecological contexts of development, particularly on issues of adolescence, identity, gender, race, and class.
- Nancy’s research projects focused on the role of after-school programs in the lives of youth deemed “at-risk.”
- She is also involved in a series of projects on undergraduate students, both traditional and non-traditional.
- Nancy co-authored two chapters in the book A Place to Call Home: Community-based after-school programs for urban youth, which won the Society for Research on Adolescence social policy book award in 2006.
- Her recent book, Pride in the Projects: Teens building identities in urban contexts, a four year study of teens at an inner-city youth organization, was published by NYU Press in July, 2008.
- Nancy is collaborating on a second book about adult-youth relationships and organizational practices at urban youth organizations.
- She is currently conducting research on the Young Women Leaders’ Program, a combined one-on-one and group mentoring program for middle school girls.
- Nancy has worked on issues related to sexual assault on college campuses and is collaborating on a national Lumina Foundation study of adult students.
Dr. Nancy Deutsch - More Than Safe Spaces: Adolescent Development and Relationship Building in After-School Settings
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About the Event
Hosts: The University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development
Date/Place: January 23 , 2009, at the University of Minnesota
About Special Learning Series Events
Sponsored by the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development, these events are planned and hosted by the Center’s Research and Evaluation Unit in partnership with the Applied Research Collaborative on Youth Development (ARCYD).
ARCYD is a network of researchers, evaluators and policy leaders dedicated to generating applied research that bridges research findings with policy solutions for youth.
