TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2009//
TI  - Youth Resilience: Can Schools Enhance Youth Factors for Hope, Optimism, and Success?
JO  - Women and criminal justice
A1  - Bernat, Frances P.
SP  - 251
EP  - 266
VL  - 19
IS  - 3
N2  - Resilience research requires attention to the factors that promote youth development and success. Youth success is associated with youth having adults in their lives who care about them and set high expectations for them to succeed; oftentimes these adults are presumed to be the children's parents. Because youth spend a great deal of time in schools, school settings may be a place where youth resilience can be fostered. In 2004, 6th-grade youth in 5 schools in Maricopa County, Arizona, were surveyed to determine if they had factors to promote their resilience. In these schools, teachers had been trained by an agency called Kids at Hope. Kids at Hope presupposes that “all children are capable of success, no exceptions” and offers an alternative paradigm to kids at risk. The results of this research show that youth who believe that they are successful and who are optimistic about themselves and their schools are more likely to find their schools to be places where they can be successful and optimistic.<p />
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SN  - 0897-4454
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08974450903001610
ID  - ref1
ER  -