I want to focus my paper on the first step in positive youth development- bridging the different domains (home, school, and community). I will look at the different partner relationships that can be formed within these interactions. I will mostly use the literature to back up my argument of partnerships for long-term success in pyd programming. If some of you girls decide to do interviews with ALA staff, I would also like to get on board and ask some questions pertaining to the organization's and personal views of collaborative work with schools, families, and the community at large.
The structure of my paper will be first background of partnerships, domains, and community organization's role; second specific examples, i.e. Beacon Centers in San Francisco; third any information collected from ALA staff; and fourth my recommendations to ALA of forming these interactions.
I do not believe the paper will be too long, less than 20 pages. I will try to provide an abbreviated version for the super busy ALA staff. The paper will be academic but not too concerned with the terminology, as the paper will be geared towards ALA staff to inform them of the latest outcomes of different PYD methods and not the theory of PYD.
If this does not seem like a good topic for writing, please let me know!
