Organized sport is a context in which to promote positive youth development (PYD).
Interventions with a PYD lens are often implemented to promote a wide range of physical or …

Sport is viewed as a setting with potential to offer social benefits to youth participants and
alleviate broader social problems. Such promise requires intentionality of sport program …

OBJECTIVES The family stress model proposes economic hardship results in caregiver
distress and relational problems, which negatively impact youth outcomes. We extend this …

Purpose: In response to the Grand Challenge of promoting the Healthy Development for All
Youth, many programs aim to enhance the development and transfer of life skills. However …

Positive youth development represents a strength-based approach to development in which
life skills are recognized as desired assets that prepare youth to function as productive …

Despite the pervasive belief that sport can serve as a vital context for positive youth
development (PYD), the associated empirical evidence to support these claims is less …

The Sport for Development (SfD) field is transdisciplinary by nature, and yet scholars tend to
stay within their disciplinary perspectives in their study of SfD. There is a need for more …

Following developments in educational discourse more broadly, learning discourses in
youth sport have been shaped by outcome-based and instrumental goals of developing …

Sport-based life skills interventions offer compelling pathways to understanding the role of
physical activity and sport on youth psychosocial and other development outcomes. This is …

For decades, social work has leveraged sport as a context for prevention, intervention,
research, and advocacy. In fact, scholars argue Jane Addams, a prominent social work …