Making Every Day Count - Teens

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The Teens in the StudyChapter II
Making Every Day Count: Boys & Girls Clubs’ Role in Promoting Positive Outcomes for Teens 8Figure 1Race and Ethnicity a of Study ParticipantsThis evaluation provides an opportunityto gain new insight into the out-of-school-timeexperiences of a previously understudied group ofyouth. While much of the national research on outof-schooltime has examined the benefits of activityinvolvement among suburban and working classyouth, 11 this study examines a sample of teens fromlow-income, primarily urban communities, and doesso at a national level.This chapter introduces the teens by addressing twomajor questions:• What are their demographics?• What are their attitudes, beliefs and behaviors atthe start of the study?Black31% White16%Latino/a34%Multiracial11%Asian or Pacific Islander5%American Indian/Alaskian2%Source: Winter 2006 survey of 322 seventh and eighth graders.a Youth were asked to check all that apply from the following: Black orAfrican American, American Indian or Alaska Native, White,Latino/Hispanic, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander.“Multiracial” indicates that the youth checked more than one box.In addition, the chapter describes how long theteens had been coming to the Clubs at the start ofthis evaluation.The Club ParticipantsTo understand the role Clubs play in teens’ lives, wechose to follow a sample of Club members as theytransitioned from middle school (seventh and eighthgrades) to high school (ninth and tenth grades).The youth who participated in the study were drawnfrom the Club as a whole, not from any specificprogram within the Club. In order to have a largeenough sample to detect differences in youth’s outcomes,each Club was asked to recruit 50 of its seventh-and eighth-grade members for the study.DemographicsThe final study sample includes 322 youth (thosecompleting both the baseline and follow-up survey)who were in seventh and eighth grades 12 at the startof the study, from 10 Clubs across the country. 13The teens in the sample are ethnically diverse andprimarily low-income, similar to the overall populationserved by Clubs nationwide:• The majority of youth in the study self-identify asa member of an ethnic or racial minority group.Latino/a youth are most prevalent, representing34 percent of those surveyed, followed by 31percent of youth who identify as black and 16percent as white (see Figure 1). 14• Fifty-two percent of youth in the study are male,and 48 percent are female. 15• Almost three quarters of the study population(71 percent) reported that they receive free orreduced-price lunch at school.• Less than one half of the youth (47 percent) livewith two parents (see Table 1).In addition to the economic stress these teens faceliving in low-income, poorly resourced communities,they reported experiencing other significantstressors in the year prior to the start of the study.For example, half of them reported that someonethey know well was seriously hurt or became very ill,and 41 percent reported that someone they knewwell had died.
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