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Embedding a Racial Equity Perspective in the Positive Youth Development Approach

Best Practices, Post-Permanency Programming, Serving Diverse Adoptive and Guardianship Families

2020

6-10 pages

Child Trends

Zakia Redd, Kristin Anderson Moore, and Kristine Andrews

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Explains how programs that use a positive youth development approach can embed a racial equity perspective so that they can more effectively engage with, support, and meet the needs of youth and young adults of color. Provides a set of principles to guide programs, regardless of their setting, in embedding a racial equity perspective in their practices and presents a case example.

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