Description: This book provides detailed strategies for transforming social settings to harness their power to promote positive youth development. The book shows schools and youth programs how to assess social settings and use data to motivate and guide change efforts and daily practices. Many chapters also focus on youth who are marginalized for reasons of race, ethnicity, immigration status, or sexual orientation, and show how settings can be transformed to improve the quality of experiences for all youth.
Review Quotes: The 2010 recipient of the Social Policy Edited Book Award as awarded by The Society for Research on Adolescence!