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Promoting Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for Minoritized Youth

A special issue of Youth (ISSN 2673-995X).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2024) | Viewed by 6743

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Kristian V. Jones

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Guest Editor
School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
Interests: youth mentoring; youth development among Black youth; prevention and early intervention for marginalized youth; community-based research; adolescent mental health; child welfare
Dr. Theresa Melton

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Guest Editor
College of Behavioral, Social, and Health Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634, USA
Interests: positive youth development within out-of-school time programs; adolescent development; ecological theories of development; quantitative research methods; qualitative research methods; measurement; program evaluation; heterogeneous impact evaluation; equity-based methodology

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to invite submissions for a Special Issue in ‘Youth’ titled “Promoting Health Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion for Minoritized Youth”. This Special Issue aims to highlight the groundbreaking scholarship focused on the inclusion of diverse and minoritized youth to achieve various types of health equity. Research is encouraged from fields, including, but not limited to, social work, public health, education, psychology, sociology, and medicine. 

The purpose of this Special Issue is to showcase research and other scholarly works that demonstrate innovative approaches to promote and/or pursue various types of health equity and inclusion for minoritized youth. Issues of health equity can be related to health disparities among minoritized youth, barriers that prevent the achievement of positive health outcomes among diverse youth, social determinants that influence health outcomes, and innovative interventions that promote health equity by addressing contemporary and historical health injustices that impact minoritized youth. Minority status can be reflected in various ways for this Special Issue, including, but not limited to, racial/ethnic, gender, sexual orientation, and social class. Studies and commentaries that utilize critical, antiracist, social justice, and/or inter-/transdisciplinary frameworks are strongly encouraged. Manuscripts that reflect deep thinking and/or critique of practices, policies, language, culture, and politics that influence the pursuit of health equity among minoritized are also encouraged.

For this Special Issue, original research articles, reviews, short communications, technical reports, commentaries, case studies, and book reviews are welcome.

We look forward to receiving your contributions.

Dr. Kristian V. Jones
Dr. Theresa Melton
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • minoritized youth
  • health equity
  • inclusion
  • disparities
  • health promotion
  • social determinants of health

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“To Show That There Is Hope”: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Parent Perspectives About an Online, Co-Facilitated Parenting Program for Carers of Adolescents with Disability
by Victoria E. Hamilton, Fiona S. May, Catherine Wade and Kylee Brealey
Youth 2024, 4(4), 1437-1452; https://doi.org/10.3390/youth4040091 - 7 Oct 2024
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Adolescence is a developmental period of significant change and increasing independence, during which parents and caregivers play a critical role guiding their teen toward adulthood. Parents of adolescents with disability face heightened challenges managing their teens’ growing independence and shift to adult-based services [...] Read more.
Adolescence is a developmental period of significant change and increasing independence, during which parents and caregivers play a critical role guiding their teen toward adulthood. Parents of adolescents with disability face heightened challenges managing their teens’ growing independence and shift to adult-based services across health, recreation, and employment. Using a mixed-methods-treatment-group-only design, this study explored the implementation and outcomes of a program designed to build parenting capacity to support their adolescent with disability. Parents enrolled in one of ten groups were invited to attend three sessions covering content tailored to adolescent development including post-school opportunities, financial support, risk-taking and decision-making, future planning, relationships, and mental health. Surveys were administered pre-program, post-program, and six months after program participation (n = 160) to measure intervention outcomes including parenting self-efficacy, self-advocacy, adolescent self-advocacy, parent confidence to support their adolescent’s growing independence, confidence to support their adolescent through sensitive developmental stages, parental hopes and aspirations, and parental empowerment. A subset of parents (n = 11) also participated in semi-structured interviews about the program’s acceptability and usefulness, and their satisfaction with the program content and delivery. All outcome variables except parent hopes and aspirations increased significantly from pre- to post-program. Parent self-efficacy, self-advocacy, and parental empowerment remained higher 6 months after program completion. Thematic analysis identified program strengths as the co-facilitation model of program delivery, practical and actionable content, the use of narratives and the facilitator’s lived experience as parents of adolescents with disability, the use of visualizations (video, pictures, diagrams), and the service provider’s trusted reputation and credibility. In conclusion, an online co-facilitated group program for parents of adolescents with disability can contribute to positive change for families by improving parent confidence, self-advocacy, and parental empowerment. Full article
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Why Not All Three? Combining the Keller, Rhodes, and Spencer Models Two Decades Later to Equitably Support the Health and Well-Being of Minoritized Youth in Mentoring Programs
by Kristian V. Jones, Grace Gowdy and Aisha N. Griffith
Youth 2024, 4(3), 1348-1363; https://doi.org/10.3390/youth4030085 - 5 Sep 2024
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Building on previous work examining the three central theoretical models driving the youth mentoring literature, the present paper presents an updated conceptual framework on how youth mentoring can equitably support health outcomes for young people, particularly minoritized or otherwise marginalized youth. Youth mentoring [...] Read more.
Building on previous work examining the three central theoretical models driving the youth mentoring literature, the present paper presents an updated conceptual framework on how youth mentoring can equitably support health outcomes for young people, particularly minoritized or otherwise marginalized youth. Youth mentoring has been demonstrated to support positive health outcomes (e.g., mental health, well-being) for all young people, and has a growing literature base to match the enthusiasm in findings. The core conceptual models, however, had not been updated for nearly 20 years. This paper starts with the guiding values behind the updated model, including centering the pursuit of social justice, a recognition of structural oppression, and utilizing key modern theoretical bases (healing-centered engagement, a strengths-based approach, and community cultural wealth). Ultimately, this paper presents an updated conceptual model, outlining key aspects needed to support mental health for minoritized young people through youth mentoring, including building a foundational relationship, key mechanisms of mentoring, reciprocal benefits, and context-specific support. Full article
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“I Was Determined to Fulfill This Image of Myself That I Wanted of a ‘Good Asian Student’”: A Photovoice Study of Asian American College Student Mental Health
by Lalaine Sevillano, Joanna C. La Torre and Taylor A. Geyton
Youth 2024, 4(2), 405-426; https://doi.org/10.3390/youth4020029 - 25 Mar 2024
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Asian American (AsA) youth and emerging adults are growing at a faster rate than all other racial and ethnic populations in the United States. Burgeoning empirical evidence shows that they are experiencing increased adverse mental health outcomes since the start of the COVID-19 [...] Read more.
Asian American (AsA) youth and emerging adults are growing at a faster rate than all other racial and ethnic populations in the United States. Burgeoning empirical evidence shows that they are experiencing increased adverse mental health outcomes since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Additionally, trends in AsA youth and emerging adults’ utilization and help-seeking behaviors remain low. Health equity scholars posit that the model minority stereotype continues to obscure and minimize these mental health disparities. The current study aims to contribute to this vital research through a Photovoice study with AsA emerging adults. Fourteen AsA undergraduate students (M age = 19.77 years old; SD = 1.12) produced photographs and captions and participated in semi-structured interviews to describe mental health. Four themes were developed: (1) mind–body health connection and the belief that mental health is about the synchronization of one’s mind and body; (2) environmental connectedness and the view that mental health is connected to nature; (3) social connectedness and how interpersonal relationships influence mental health; and (4) the internalization of the “good Asian student” stereotype and its impact on mental health. Implications for culturally tailored prevention and intervention strategies are discussed to ultimately improve health equity. Full article
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Advancing Equity through Effective Youth Engagement in Public Health to Operationalize Racism as a Public Health Crisis: The Flint Public Health Youth Academy Model
by Kent D. Key, Kayla Shannon, Everett Graham, Cruz Duhart, Tomás Tello, Cole Mays, Christian Mays, Tyshae Brady, Jasmine Hall, Kahlil Calvin, Courtney Blanchard, Vanessa de Danzine and Sarah Bailey
Youth 2024, 4(1), 395-404; https://doi.org/10.3390/youth4010028 - 20 Mar 2024
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Background: The underrepresentation of BIPOC youth in the fields of public health, medicine, and research may be a factor contributing to the disproportionate rates of health disparities in BIPOC communities. In 2004, the Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce, commissioned by [...] Read more.
Background: The underrepresentation of BIPOC youth in the fields of public health, medicine, and research may be a factor contributing to the disproportionate rates of health disparities in BIPOC communities. In 2004, the Sullivan Commission on Diversity in the Healthcare Workforce, commissioned by the White House and led by the United States Health and Human Services, recommended efforts to increase the number of minority professionals in the aforementioned fields as necessary for addressing racial and ethnic health disparities. More recently, over 240 municipalities in the United States have declared “racism a public health crisis”. This national declaration links racism directly to public health disparities, thus calling for a public health response. The Flint Public Health Youth Academy (FPHYA) provides an effective model of youth engagement steeped in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI). FPHYA was created based on a dissertation study designed to explore the motivators for engagement of African American and other minority students into careers in public health and its six recommendations. Methods: The FPHYA Model described in this article uses a case study of the Flint Water Crisis to assess and explore effective youth engagement models for public health. This model is rooted in the Continuum of Community Engagement and Youth Empowerment Theory and explores FPHYA’s contribution of youth voice in operationalizing racism as a public health crisis. Full article
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Association of Trauma History with Current Psychosocial Health Outcomes of Young African American Women
by Mia Ann Xu, Jasmin Choi, Ariadna Capasso and Ralph DiClemente
Youth 2024, 4(1), 316-331; https://doi.org/10.3390/youth4010022 - 3 Mar 2024
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African American women have a higher likelihood of experiencing lifetime trauma compared to other racial/ethnic groups. Trauma exposure may be associated with higher substance misuse and greater adverse sexual and mental health outcomes. This study expands upon previous empirical findings to characterize the [...] Read more.
African American women have a higher likelihood of experiencing lifetime trauma compared to other racial/ethnic groups. Trauma exposure may be associated with higher substance misuse and greater adverse sexual and mental health outcomes. This study expands upon previous empirical findings to characterize the effect of trauma history on substance use, sexual health, and mental health among young African American women. This study included 560 African American women aged 18–24 years in Atlanta, Georgia. Trauma history was defined as having ever experienced a traumatic event based on the Traumatic Events Screening Inventory (TESI). Relative to women not reporting a trauma history and controlling for age, education, and employment, women who experienced trauma were over 2.5 and 2.3 times, respectively, more likely to report alcohol misuse and marijuana misuse. They were 3.0 times more likely to experience peer normative pressure for substance use. Women who experienced trauma were 2.1 times more likely to have multiple sex partners, 2.9 times more likely to have peer norms for risky sex, 1.8 times more likely to perceive barriers to using condoms with sex partners, 2.1 times more likely to report lower communication frequency about sex, 2.0 times more likely to report lower self-efficacy for refusing sex, and 1.9 times more likely to report less relationship control. Women with a trauma history were also 5.0 times more likely to have experienced intimate partner violence, 2.1 times more likely to report high depression symptomatology, 4.0 times more likely to report high overall stress, 3.2 times more likely to have worse coping skills, and 1.8 times more likely to have poor emotional regulation. Findings suggest that trauma history may increase myriad adverse psychosocial health outcomes. Screening for trauma history may help inform the provision of services. Intensified TESI screenings may help identify a history of trauma and assist in identifying adverse health outcomes. Full article
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