"It Takes an Ecosystem" explores the potential of Allied Youth Fields, emphasizing the importance of connections across systems where adults engage with young people. It highlights how interactions with adults shape youth development and offers ideas, tools, and visions for a more connected, equitable world for young people and adults.
It Takes an Ecosystem explores the idea and potential of the Allied Youth Fieldsan aspirational term that suggests increased connection across the multiple systems in which adults engage with young people. Recent research and initiatives make a strong case for what developmentalists have argued for decades: A young persons learning and development is shaped in positive and negative ways by the interactions they have with all the adults in their life. Now is the time to reshape our systems to support this scientific understanding. The chapters in this book provide ideas, tools, examples, and visions for a more connected, more equitable world for young people and the adults in their lives.
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It Takes an Ecosystem offers a powerful and timely engagement of the possibilities and challenges facing the Out-of-School Time sectorthis book charts a path forward for scholars, practitioners, community members to imagine OST anew---in ways that are socially just and affirming, centered on the optimal development of youth and the power of community."" Bianca Baldridge, University of Wisconsin Madison
""The book's emphasis on an ecosystem approach, anchored in commitments to equity and racial justice, combines evidence-based analyses with a future-oriented call to action for the allied youth fields. This book will be a must-read for those committed to radically re-thinking how we bring sectors together to support thriving for children and youth."" Ben Kirshner, University of Colorado
Dedication.
Foreword; Karen Pittman.
Section I. An Ecosystem Of Youth-Serving Fields.
Chapter
1. Introduction: A New Way Forward; Kimberly H. Robinson and Thomas
Akiva.
Chapter
2. Using a Learning and Development Ecosystem Framework to Advance
the Youth Fields; Thomas Akiva, Marijke Hecht, and Dale A. Blyth.
Chapter
3. Why Narrow Definitions of How, Where, and When Learning Happens
Undermine Equity: How OST Leaders Can Help; Karen Pittman, Jill Young, David
Osher, Rob Jagers, Hal Smith, Merita Irby, and Poonam Borah.
Chapter
4. Mattering in Allied Youth Fields: Summoning the Call of Black
Lives Matter to Radically Affirm Youth Through Programming; Roderick L.
Carey, Camila Polanco, and Horatio Blackman.
Section II. The People And Practices That Support Healthy Learning And
Development Ecosystems.
Chapter
5. Fostering, Facilitating, and Connecting: Families are a Critical
Part of Young People's Learning and Development Ecosystems; Lori
Delale-O'Connor.
Chapter
6. The Power of Simple, Ordinary Interactions in Developmental
Relationships Across Contexts; Junlei Li and Dana Winters.
Chapter
7. Who are the Adults Who Work with Youth? Unpacking the Occupational
Identities of Library and Afterschool Workers in the Context of Learning and
Developmental Ecosystems; Sharon Colvin and Annie White.
Chapter
8. Organizing for Equity: Addressing Institutional Barriers and
Creating Learning Opportunities; Fatima Brunson, DaVonna Graham, Tanja
Burkhard, and Valerie Kinloch.
Section III. Possibilities: Tools And Structures For Shaping Learning And
Development Ecosystems.
Chapter
9. Just Quality: How Youth Justice Programs Can Inform Program
Quality Efforts to Support Equitable Learning & Development Ecosystems;
Alicia Wilson-Ahlstrom and David J. Martineau.
Chapter
10. The Role of Out-of-School Time Intermediaries in Contributing to
Equitable Learning and Development Ecosystems; Priscilla Little and Jessica
Donner with Wokie Weah, Mike Snell, LaRon Henderson, Jessica Werner, and
Eddie Cleofe.
Chapter
11. From System to (Eco)System: Policy Examples that Foster
Cross-Sector Collaboration; Michelle J. Boyd-Brown, Jill Young, and Deborah
Moroney.
Section IV. Places: Case Studies Of Learning And Development Ecosystems.
Chapter
12. The Role of Philanthropy, Research, and Evaluation in Shaping
Learning and Development Ecosystems: The Case of Creative Learning in
Pittsburgh; Mac Howison, Esohe Osai, and Thomas Akiva.
Chapter
13. Connected Learning & Libraries: An Essential Part of the OST
Ecosystem; Linda W. Braun and Lance Simpson.
Chapter
14. The Growing Role of Out-of-School Time in Driving Equitable
Career Exploration and Preparation; Candace Brazier Thurman and Saskia K.
Traill.
Chapter
15. Expanded Learning as a Vehicle to Advance Whole-Child,
Whole-Family Health and Wellness; Jeff Davis.
Section V. Looking Ahead.
Chapter
16. Building Forward Together: Toward Equitable Ecosystems for Young
People; Merita Irby, Karen Pittman, Hal Smith, and Deb Moroney.
Biographies.
Thomas Akiva, University of Pittsburgh
Kimberly H. Robinson, Forum for Youth Investment
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