Adopt power-sharing and reciprocity strategies such as mentoring and cooperative learning to strengthen social bonds and build protective factors¶

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Description¶

The article recommends that prevention strategies rebuild naturally occurring social networks by using approaches grounded in power sharing and reciprocity. As the abstract states, "Strategies based on power sharing and reciprocity, such as mentoring and cooperative learning, are advocated to strengthen these social bonds and to promote the protective factors of support, high expectations, and participation." The strategy treats mentoring and cooperative learning as implementable mechanisms for delivering caring support, high expectations, and meaningful participation to youth, and pairs them with school-community linkages and communitywide collaboration.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• A systems perspective that addresses family, school, and community together, since the review holds that destruction of naturally occurring social networks underlies social problems

Constraints¶

• The review frames this as most needed where increasing numbers of students experience risk due to economic deprivation

Target Learners¶

• children and youth at risk in families, schools, and communities

Target Learning Goals¶

• resiliency
• social competence
• participation and bonding to social institutions

Affordances¶

• Protective Factors Triad Support Expectations Participation

Related Strategies¶

• Protective Factors Triad Support Expectations Participation
• Positive Intention & Generosity in Networking

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Benard, B. (1991). Fostering Resiliency in Kids: Protective Factors in the Family, School, and Community. Western Regional Center for Drug-Free Schools and Communities, Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED335781