Embedding life design in future readiness efforts to promote collective impact and economically sustainable communities: conceptual frameworks and case example
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Park, Chong Myung
Rodriguez, Angelica
Gomez, Jasmin Rubi Flete
Erilus, Isahiah
Kim, Hayoung
Dai, Yanling
Oliver-Davila, Alexandra
Trunfio, Paul
Nardi, Cecilia
Howard, Kimberly A.S.
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C.M. Park, A. Rodriguez, J.R.F. Gomez, I. Erilus, H. Kim, Y. Dai, A. Oliver-Davila, P. Trunfio, C. Nardi, K.A.S. Howard, V.S.H. Solberg. "Embedding Life Design in Future Readiness Efforts to Promote Collective Impact and Economically Sustainable Communities: Conceptual Frameworks and Case Example." Sustainability, Volume 13, Issue 23, pp. 13189 - 13189. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132313189
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This is the first of two sequential papers describing the design and first-year implementation of a collaborative participatory action research effort between Sociedad Latina, a youth serving organization in Boston, Massachusetts, and Boston University. The collaboration aimed to develop and deliver a combined STEM and career development set of lessons for middle school Latinx youth. In the first paper, life design and the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals are described in relation to the rationale and the design of the career development intervention strategy that aims to help middle school youth discover the ways that learning advanced-STEM skills expand future decent work opportunities both within STEM and outside STEM, ultimately leading to an outcome of well-being and sustainable communities. In addition to providing evidence of career development intervention strategies, a qualitative analysis of the collaboration is described. The second paper will discuss two additional frameworks that guided the design and implementation of our work. As an example of translational research, the paper will provide larger national and regional contexts by describing system level career development interventions underway using Bronfenbrenner’s bioecological and person–process–context–time frameworks.
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