Youth-Led Community Organizing: Theory and Action
Youth-led organizing, a burgeoning movement that empowers young people while enabling them to make substantive contributions to their communities, is increasingly receiving attention from scholars, activists, and the media. The first comprehensive study of this dynamic field, this well-organized book takes an important step toward bridging the gap between academic knowledge and community practice in this growing area. Grounded in a social justice framework, the authors show successful groups...
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Youth-led organizing, a burgeoning movement that empowers young people while simultaneously enabling them to make substantive contributions to their communities, is increasingly receiving attention from scholars, activists, and the media. Melvin Delgado and Lee Staples, recognized leaders in social work macro practice and community organization, have produced the first comprehensive study of this dynamic field. Their well-organized book takes an important step toward bridging the gap between academic knowledge and community practice in this growing area. The authors social justice-rooted perspective on the fields conceptual and practical foundations is an effective basis for analyzing youth-led community organizing, but they also offer glimpses of successful groups in action and helpful insight into how fledgling organizations can become stronger. These groups and their young participants represent the politics and activism of the future, and Delgado and Staples have produced a lucid, thoughtful guide to their key aspects and recent developments that students and researchers of community organization, not to mention the organizers and their facilitators themselves, are sure to find both inspiring and useful.
Setting the ContextOverview of Youth-Led Community Organizing 3Social and Economic Justice Foundation 23Overview of Community Organizing, Youth-Led Field, and Youth-Led Organizing 41Conceptual Foundation for Youth-Led Community OrganizingGuiding Principles and Analytical Framework 75Participatory Democracy 95Leadership Development 111Recruitment, Screening, Preparation, and Support of Youth-Led Community Organizers 127Crosscutting Theoretical and Practice Themes 147A View and Lessons from the FieldYouth First in Jackson Square! (Jovenes Primero!) 175Challenges Inherent in Youth-Led Organizing 194Epilogue 213References 219Index 249
