Conceptualizing Youth Empowerment Within Tobacco Control

This article presents a conceptual framework that was developed to guide a national evaluation of the American Legacy Foundation's (Legacy) Statewide Youth Movement Against Tobacco Use (SYMATU) program. This program was designed to develop youth-led, youth-directed initiatives within local comm...

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Published in:Health education & behavior 2004-10, Vol.31 (5), p.548-563
Main Authors: Holden, Debra J., Messeri, Peter, Evans, W. Douglas, Crankshaw, Erik, Ben-Davies, Maureen
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent Behavior - psychology
Case Studies
Children & youth
Community Health Planning - organization & administration
Community Participation
Drug prevention
Empowerment
Foundations
Group Processes
Health Education
Health Promotion
Humans
Parent-Child Relations
Participation
Power (Psychology)
Prevention
Program Development
Program Evaluation
Program Implementation
Smoking
Smoking Cessation - psychology
Smoking Prevention
Social Control Policies
Social Environment
Social Support
State Programs
Tobacco
Tobacco Industry - legislation & jurisprudence
United States
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Summary:This article presents a conceptual framework that was developed to guide a national evaluation of the American Legacy Foundation's (Legacy) Statewide Youth Movement Against Tobacco Use (SYMATU) program. This program was designed to develop youth-led, youth-directed initiatives within local communities. Two evaluation studies were designed and implemented from 2000 through 2003: a cross-site study that collected standard data elements across all 17 programs and a case study of five programs that collected formative data on variables thought to affect program implementation. In developing the youth empowerment (YE) conceptual framework, the authors started by reviewing literature to identify the concepts necessary for these types of initiatives and present a summary of their findings here. This article focuses on the development of the authors' overarching conceptual framework used to guide their evaluation studies. Other articles contained within this special issue present results from each of the SYMATU evaluation studies.
ISSN:1090-1981
1552-6127
DOI:10.1177/1090198104268545