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Universal Challenges, Specific Contexts: Insights from Looking Within and Across Different After-School Settings

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After-School Programs to Promote Positive Youth Development

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The content for this chapter comes out of collaborative workshops at a two-day conference focused on after-school programs, hosted by Youth Nex at the University of Virginia in October of 2014. The goal of this paper is to look across these discussions, and highlight important strategies that apply across after-school programs, as well as discuss specific challenges that each type of program may face. The bulleted lists of opportunities and challenges that grew out of each workshop are also presented. Examples from the research literature are provided for each section. Focal questions include: How can looking at different types of after-school programs highlight specific challenges and opportunities? What does the lens of these specific programs show us about after-school programming in general?

After the first author, all authors contributed equally to this manuscript and are listed in alphabetical order.

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  1. Center for Creative Leadership, Greensboro, USA

    Valerie A. Futch Ehrlich

  2. Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Blue Ridge, Charlottesville, USA

    Jackie Bright

  3. University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

    Rita DeBate

  4. Charlottesville High School, Charlottesville, USA

    Carol Freeman

  5. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

    Paul C. Harris

  6. Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

    Barton J. Hirsch

  7. Music Resource Center National, Charlottesville, USA

    Sibley Johns

  8. Super Starters Sports, Charlottesville, USA

    Ellen Markowitz

  9. Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA

    Gil G. Noam

  10. Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia, Charlottesville, USA

    James Pierce

  11. University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, USA

    Jean E. Rhodes

  12. Computers4Kids, Charlottesville, USA

    Kala Somerville

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Futch Ehrlich, V.A. et al. (2017). Universal Challenges, Specific Contexts: Insights from Looking Within and Across Different After-School Settings. In: Deutsch, N. (eds) After-School Programs to Promote Positive Youth Development. SpringerBriefs in Psychology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59141-4_2

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