IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jscscx/v12y2022i1p2-d1008779.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

How Are Leadership Programs Empowering Our Vulnerable Children and Youth? A Scoping Review

Author

Listed:
  • Kirsty Bastable

    (Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South Africa)

  • Paul Cooke

    (Centre for World Cinemas and Digital Cultures, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK)

  • Lou Harvey

    (School of Education, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK)

  • Victoria Olarte

    (Hope and Homes for Children, Wiltshire SP3 4LZ, UK)

  • Jodi Zimmerman

    (Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South Africa)

  • Shakila Dada

    (Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South Africa)

Abstract

Globally vulnerable populations are negatively impacted by policy and practice. For vulnerable youth, risks to growth, development, and a lack of participation in decisions about their lives are common. Leadership programs are frequently implemented to address the risks faced by vulnerable youth. This review sought to describe the goals, content, and outcomes of existing youth development programs to better understand if they are meeting the needs of vulnerable youth. A scoping review was conducted using the PRISMA-ScR methodology. Ten electronic databases and grey literature were searched. A total of 89 youth development programs were identified. The goals, content, and outcomes of the programs were thematically analyzed. Four foci emerged, namely, youth, relationship, community, and social justice-focused development. A youth focus was most commonly represented, and the social justice focus was the least represented. Most programs addressed only one focus area. If youth development programs are to provide youth with both the skills to engage with and opportunities to change their circumstances, then all four focus areas need to be included. Secondly, a need for the active involvement of youth in both the planning and implementation of programs was identified. Finally, safeguarding needs to be highlighted in any program working with vulnerable youth.

Suggested Citation

  • Kirsty Bastable & Paul Cooke & Lou Harvey & Victoria Olarte & Jodi Zimmerman & Shakila Dada, 2022. "How Are Leadership Programs Empowering Our Vulnerable Children and Youth? A Scoping Review," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-24, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:12:y:2022:i:1:p:2-:d:1008779
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/1/2/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/12/1/2/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Gal, Tali, 2017. "An ecological model of child and youth participation," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 79(C), pages 57-64.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Simmons-Horton, Sherri Y., 2017. "Providing age-appropriate activities for youth in foster care: Policy implementation process in three states," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 82(C), pages 383-391.
    2. Gazit, Matan & Perry-Hazan, Lotem, 2020. "Disadvantaged youth’s participation in collective decision making," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 110(C).
    3. Duramy, Benedetta Faedi & Gal, Tali, 2020. "Understanding and implementing child participation: Lessons from the Global South," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 119(C).
    4. Manou Anselma & Mai Chinapaw & Teatske Altenburg, 2020. "“Not Only Adults Can Make Good Decisions, We as Children Can Do That as Well” Evaluating the Process of the Youth-Led Participatory Action Research ‘Kids in Action’," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 17(2), pages 1-24, January.
    5. Shamrova, Daria P. & Cummings, Cristy E., 2017. "Participatory action research (PAR) with children and youth: An integrative review of methodology and PAR outcomes for participants, organizations, and communities," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 81(C), pages 400-412.
    6. Hanita Kosher, 2023. "The Relation Between Children's Participation in Their Daily life and Their Subjective Well-Being," Child Indicators Research, Springer;The International Society of Child Indicators (ISCI), vol. 16(5), pages 1827-1850, October.
    7. Anu Kinnunen & Ira Jeglinsky & Nea Vänskä & Krista Lehtonen & Salla Sipari, 2021. "The Importance of Collaboration in Pediatric Rehabilitation for the Construction of Participation: The Views of Parents and Professionals," Disabilities, MDPI, vol. 1(4), pages 1-12, November.
    8. McPherson, Lynne & Vosz, Meaghan & Gatwiri, Kathomi & Parmenter, Natalie & Macnamara, Noel & Mitchell, Janise & Tucci, Joe, 2021. "What does research tell us about young people’s participation in decision making in residential care? A systematic scoping review," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 122(C).
    9. Mingwei Sun & Katarzyna Grondys & Nazim Hajiyev & Pavel Zhukov, 2021. "Improving the E-Commerce Business Model in a Sustainable Environment," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(22), pages 1-22, November.
    10. Trbus, Marina & Zečević, Ivana & Wright, Laura Helen Virginia, 2023. "Perspectives of children and young people from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina on their role in challenging perceived social and gender norms impacting school related gender-based violence," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 150(C).
    11. A. Elianne Zijlstra & Wendy J. Post & Marit Hopman & Alexandra Jong & Margrite E. Kalverboer, 2023. "The Best Interests of The Child Self-Report (BIC-S): Psychometric Properties of the Adapted Version of the BIC-S used as a Monitoring Instrument to Measure the Quality of The Children’s Rearing Enviro," Child Indicators Research, Springer;The International Society of Child Indicators (ISCI), vol. 16(3), pages 1341-1361, June.
    12. Elmore, Kristen C. & Sumner, Rachel & Tifft, Megan & Forstrom, Melanie A. & Burrow, Anthony L., 2019. "Building collaborative youth development research-practice partnerships through Cooperative Extension," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 105(C), pages 1-1.
    13. Correia, Nadine & Camilo, Cláudia & Aguiar, Cecília & Amaro, Fausto, 2019. "Children's right to participate in early childhood education settings: A systematic review," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 100(C), pages 76-88.
    14. Strijbosch, E.L.L. & Wissink, I.B. & van der Helm, G.H.P. & Stams, G.J.J.M., 2019. "Building a positive group climate together: How monitoring instruments are part of an improvement process in residential care for children," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 266-277.
    15. Lee, Laura & Currie, Vanessa & Saied, Neveen & Wright, Laura, 2020. "Journey to hope, self-expression and community engagement: Youth-led arts-based participatory action research," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 109(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:12:y:2022:i:1:p:2-:d:1008779. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.