Nalani Andrew
Peabody College of Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Am J Community Psychol. 2025 Mar;75(1-2):33-52. doi: 10.1002/ajcp.12762. Epub 2024 Aug 15.
Although youth-adult partnerships (Y-APs) have been linked to a wide range of positive youth and community outcomes, the possibility of Y-AP occurrence in spaces of racialized social control such as youth residential facilities remains unknown. Rooted in a social justice and rights-based ethos, Y-APs represent an innovative conceptual and practice model of youth engagement that challenges longstanding patterns of control that characterize adult-youth relationships in these settings. This study uses narrative thematic inquiry and counter storytelling to examine frontline youth care workers' narratives (N = 21) of Y-AP enactment against the backdrop of anti-Black racism in youth residential facilities. Workers' narratives include instances of both enhanced and diminished forms of partnership, and explanations for Y-AP diminishment depict an interplay of racist (anti-Black) ideologies and organizational processes, including selective racial cognizance in hiring practices, color-evasive and elitist training, and racialized blame-shifting. Importantly, workers' narratives suggest that although flourishing Y-APs remain elusive, it is not a foregone conclusion that Y-APs cannot occur to realize youth development and social change in these extreme contexts.
尽管青年与成人伙伴关系（Y-APs）已被证明与众多积极的青年和社区成果相关联，但在诸如青年寄宿设施等存在种族化社会控制的场所中，Y-APs出现的可能性仍然未知。基于社会正义和权利的理念，Y-APs代表了一种创新的青年参与概念和实践模式，它挑战了这些环境中成人与青年关系所特有的长期控制模式。本研究运用叙事主题探究和反叙事手法，在青年寄宿设施中反黑人种族主义的背景下，审视一线青年护理工作者（N = 21）关于Y-APs实施的叙述。工作者的叙述包括伙伴关系增强和减弱的实例，而对Y-APs减弱的解释描绘了种族主义（反黑人）意识形态与组织过程的相互作用，包括招聘实践中的选择性种族认知、避谈肤色和精英主义培训，以及种族化的责任推诿。重要的是，工作者的叙述表明，尽管蓬勃发展的Y-APs仍然难以实现，但在这些极端环境中，Y-APs无法出现以实现青年发展和社会变革并非必然。
