Table of Contents

List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I. SETTING THE CONTEXT
1. Overview
2. Conceptual Foundation for Youth Involvement
Part II. YOUTH AS RESEARCHERS: APPROACHES AND CONSIDERATIONS
3. Guiding Goals, Principles, Objectives, and Outcomes of Youth-Led Research
4. Youth Research Competencies: Attitudes, Knowledge, and Skills
5. Continuum of Youth Involvement in Research
6. Youth-Led Research and Methods
7. Initiating and Sustaining Youth-Led Research
8. Ethical Conduct and Decision Making
9. Funding of Community Research and Program Evaluation
Part III. FIELD EXAMPLES
10. Field Examples of Youth-Led Community Research
Part IV. FUTURE CHALLENGES
11. Challenges and Implications for Practice
12. Epilogue
References
Index
About the Author

About the Author

Scholarly and Practice Interests

Latino and other marginalized urban population groups, youth development-youth-led research and macro-practice, community-capacity enhancement, non-traditional urban settings