Sacramento Head Start Alumni Association

Community Programs to Promote Youth Development

Feb 26, 2002

The National Academy of Sciences book concedes that we don?’t know as
much
as we?’d like from research to identify the specific assets and
environments that help adolescents develop into healthy, productive
adults, but we do know enough to continue to support community programs
that help youth meet universal needs like feeling competent, being
socially connected and having one?’s physical needs taken care of.
http://www.nap.edu/catalog/10022.html?onpi_listserv021502