ERIC Number: EJ1446521
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023
Pages: 18
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Developmental Assets and Community-Based Youth Programs in Columbia, Guatemala, and Honduras
Claire M. de Mezerville-López
Journal of Youth Development, v18 n3 Article 2 p2-18 2023
This paper explores the external developmental assets and how they manifest in specific youth programs from Colombia, Guatemala, and Honduras. An evaluation process was created through a qualitative phenomenological with the youth programs' leadership. To triangulate the data, a survey was developed and piloted with a small sample from three youth programs, one from Honduras, one from Guatemala and one from Colombia, exploring how the staff evaluate items related with the external developmental assets. This survey was created in a way that the results display in the form of a Spiderweb and in a circular way that evokes and relates with the Circle of Courage. The Spiderweb served to illustrate and discuss with the program staff. Eight interviews were developed with the youth program's staff from the three programs and analyzed through a phenomenological approach. External assets showed their theoretical validity in these three specific contexts, according to the evaluation survey and the semi structured interviews. Symbols, meanings and historical elements were identified as significant within these programs to understanding the youth's development, context and communities. The Circle of Courage and the External Developmental Assets, as theoretical constructs, offer possibilities of improving evaluation processes in community work with youth, as long as the frameworks continue to be integrated into a synergistic intentional approach with a cross-cultural perspective.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Programs, Youth Programs, Program Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Validity, Reliability, Adolescent Development, Child Development, Decision Making Skills, Mastery Learning, Interpersonal Competence, Self Concept
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Colombia; Guatemala; Honduras
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