Empowerment as Fostering Positive Youth Development and Citizenship.

Assessed how the youth empowerment process encouraged positive youth development. Observation, interview, and focus group data from an urban community health promotion project indicated that practitioners created environments conducive to adolescents taking responsibility for their quality of life by welcoming and enabling youth. Power was transferred to youth as responsibility for voicing, decision making, and action, resulting in positive changes in youth development and their social integration. (SM)