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Mike Baizerman |
Mike Baizerman directs the Youth Studies program in the School of Social Work at the University of Minnesota. His interests in the field include socio-cultural and geographic models of youth development; youth involvement models; youth work and youth policy. Mike’s current research is in youth involvement in civic issues; philosophical and human sciences’ understandings of the idea of "youth," how it is represented, theorized and lived. |
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Dale Blyth |
Dr. Dale A. Blyth is the Associate Dean for Youth Development with University of Minnesota Extension where he directs the Center for Youth Development, which serves as is a catalyst, resource, and advocate to ensure quality community opportunities for all young people to learn, lead, and contribute. Dale directed research at Search Institute and has served on the faculty of Cornell University and Ohio State University. He developed a center for adolescent healthy development at the American Medical Association. He has co-authored a classic book on adolescent development and numerous journal articles and book chapters. |
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DAN CONRAD |
Dan Conrad is a retired teacher, having taught at Hopkins High School, The Children’s Theatre in Minneapolis and the Center for Youth Development and Research at the University of Minnesota. |
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 DANA FUSCO |
Dana Fusco holds a doctorate in Educational Psychology from the CUNY Graduate Center and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Teacher Education at York College. For the past six years, Dr. Fusco has been involved in research and evaluation in the area of after-school education. Her work recently led to the production of a video-documentary on the role of after-school programs in urban communities. Dr. Fusco also teaches Child and Adolescent Development and Effective Teaching and Learning to teacher candidates and incorporates her belief that quality education should promote Creativity, Critical Thinking, and Confidence.
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ELLEN GANNETT |
Ellen Gannett is Director of the National Institute on Out-of-School Time (NIOST) at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College. Ellen has co-authored a number of NIOST’s publications and chapters in several books. She also contributed to the writing and development of ASQ: Assessing School-Age Child Care Quality, School Age and Youth Development Credential (SAYD) as well as the Afterschool Program Assessment System (APAS). She is the national co-chair of the Next Generation Youth Work Coalition and national board member of the American Camp Association. |
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CECE GRAN |
Cece Gran is an Associate Program Director and State Faculty at the Youth Work Institute at the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development where she leads curriculum development and facilitates courses on the practice of youth work and promoting positive youth development. Her work centers around helping adults understand the needs of young people, honing expertise and wisdom in practice, and working to enhance the development of the youth worker workforce. She has over 15 years of experience facilitating adult learning both in the nonformal education sector and in the child welfare system. |
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TONY JEFFS |
Tony Jeffs is a member of the Community and Youth Work Studies Unit, Department of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Durham. His is also an Honorary Lecturer and Visiting Tutor at Ruskin College, Oxford, and Bedfordshire University, UK. Amongst his many publications are Young People and the Youth Service (1979); Youth Work (1988 with Mark Smith); Henry Morris (1999); Informal Education (1999 with Mark Smith); Essays in the History of Youth Work (2001); Architects of Change (2003) and Studies in the history of community and youth work (2004) (both edited with Ruth Gilchrist and Jean Spence) and Youth Work Policy and Practice (2010 with Mark Smith). Tony is Editor of the journal Youth and Policy.
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JON ORD |
Jon Ord has worked for 20 years as a youth work practitioner in a variety of settings and brings that knowledge and commitment to youth work to his teaching and research. He is particularly interested in the relationship between theory and practice of youth work, the impact of policy on practice and innovations in youth work. In addition to his 2007 book, Youth Work Process, Product & Practice: creating an authentic curriculum in work with young people, Jon has written articles for a number of international journals. |
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ANDREW SCHNEIDER-MUNOZ |
Andrew J. Schneider-Munoz , Ed. D., CYC-P is a certified youth worker and well known story-teller about the healing and empowering relationships we share with youth. Currently Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Pittsburgh, he leads the youth work studies concentration. A Harvard-trained child psychologist and anthropologist, he is also a member of the Boards of the Association for Child and Youth Care Practice; and the National Certification Board. Andy travels the world to visit youth work centers, conduct training and practice research. He has designed innovative positive youth development programs in Detroit, MI; Brevard, FL; Moscow, and Pago Pago. Andy is a recognized expert in the use of qualitative and quantitative data to implement and evaluate quality youth development initiatives. |
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NAOMI STANTON |
Naomi Stanton is a PhD researcher based with The Open University and Christian Education in the UK. She is currently researching youth engagement with organised Christianity, past and present, focusing on the English Sunday Schools in the 20th Century and teenagers who choose to engage with Christianity across the denominations in England today. She has a background in the practice and teaching of youth work, and is a member of the editorial group for Youth & Policy web-based journal. |
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Jerry Stein |
Jerry Stein is Senior Fellow at the School of Social Work and Director of the Project on Youth and Community Learning at the University of Minnesota. Teaching, writing, community practice and research all focus on community learning and community building strategies, and maximizing community as a place of learning for families and young people. Jerry is the creator of the Learning Dreams project, and directs the Youth Development Leadership M.Ed. program in the College of Education and Human Development . |
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Ross VeLure Roholt |
Ross VeLure Roholt is an Assistant Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Minnesota. His scholarly interests include community-based models for youth participation and youth development, and youthwork practices to enhance community-based models of youth participation and youth development. |
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JOYCE WALKER |
Joyce Walker, professor at the Extension Center for Youth Development, has given leadership to the Youth Work Institute, a non-credit professional development and educational arm of the University of Minnesota Extension offering exceptional learning opportunities to adults working with and on behalf of young people. For 13 years she was faculty coordinator for the Youth Development Leadership Program, a M.Ed. program in the College of Education & Human Development. Her study of the history of youth and community work, youth policy, organizational approaches to youth development, and intentional youth programming guide her research and publications.
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KATE WALKER |
Kate Walker, Ph.D., is a Research Associate at the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development where she conducts applied research and evaluation on youth development practice and programs. Her work centers on understanding, evaluating and elevating youth work practice. She is particularly interested in practitioner expertise, workforce development, program quality and ethics. Her current research explores the dilemmas that practitioners face in their everyday work with youth and their strategies for addressing these challenges.
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