Hanh Cao Yu
Biographic Data
| ID | 142872 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hanh Cao Yu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hanh Cao |
| FAMILY NAME | Yu |
| SIGNATURE | YU H C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Social Policy Research Associates (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3274-4656 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Evaluating for the Bigger Picture: Breaking Through the Learning and Evaluation Barriers to Advancing Community Systems-Change Field Knowledge
Foundations investing in community systems change often fail to prioritize field-level and cross-initiative evaluation questions in building initiatives. As a result, many of the documented evaluations of such investments lack translatable lessons specific and influential enough to drive related decisions and actions of others in the field. This article developed from ongoing, multiyear peer learning across several foundations that collectively c…
Exiting From Large-Scale Initiatives: Lessons and Insights From a National Scan of Philanthropy
This article shares insights and lessons from a research project commissioned by The California Endowment in early 2016 to inform the planning for its transition out of Building Healthy Communities, a 10-year, place-based, policy- and systems-change initiative. The goal of the nationwide study, which included literature reviews and interviews with 30 executives and directors from 17 foundations, was to tap into philanthropic leaders’ accumulated …
Building a Field: Blue Shield of California Foundation's Strong Field Project Leaves a Legacy and Valuable Lessons
Relatively few comprehensive evaluations have assessed the principles, elements, and impacts of philanthropic organizations’ field-building endeavors. To help fill this gap, this article shares the results of a five-year evaluation of a large-scale field-building initiative: Blue Shield of California Foundation’s Strong Field Project. The project’s goal was to strengthen the domestic violence field by equipping it with a critical mass of diverse …
Executive Summaries
Philanthropy has a long history of supporting field building, but few comprehensive evaluations have assessed the principles, elements, and impacts of these endeavors. This article shares the results of a five-year evaluation of a large-scale field-building initiative: Blue Shield of California Foundation's Strong Field Project. It aimed to strengthen field leadership and organizations, and to create vibrant collaborative networks. Evaluation dat…
Youth Organizing, Identity-Support, and Youth Development Agencies as Avenues for Involvement
What are the differences in outcomes among youth organizing and other efforts to involve young people at the community level? This paper examines differences in developmental outcomes among youth organizing, identity-support, and traditional youth development agencies, with the finding that there are significant differences in outcomes such as civic activism and identity development. It reports that youth organizing agencies show higher levels of…
Growing up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States . Min Zhou , Carl L. Bankston III
Adolescents' worlds: Negotiating Family, Peers, and School
"Adolescents' Worlds is for educators, psychologists, sociologists, social workers and nursing professionals, and anyone seeking to understand and work with adolescents."--Jacket.
Navigating the Psychosocial Pressures of Adolescence: The Voices and Experiences of High School Youth
This article describes pressures and problems in adolescents’ family, peer, and school worlds that they perceive as powerful enough to have an impact on their ability to engage optimally in school and learning endeavors. The study sample includes 55 ethnically and academically diverse youth in four urban desegregated high schools in California. The primary data were obtained through four in-depth interviews with each student over a period of 2 ye…
Navigating the Psychosocial Pressures of Adolescence: The Voices and Experiences of High School Youth
This article describes pressures and problems in adolescents’ family, peer, and school worlds that they perceive as powerful enough to have an impact on their ability to engage optimally in school and learning endeavors. The study sample includes 55 ethnically and academically diverse youth in four urban desegregated high schools in California. The primary data were obtained through four in-depth interviews with each student over a period of 2 ye…
Youth Organizing, Identity-Support, and Youth Development Agencies as Avenues for Involvement
What are the differences in outcomes among youth organizing and other efforts to involve young people at the community level? This paper examines differences in developmental outcomes among youth organizing, identity-support, and traditional youth development agencies, with the finding that there are significant differences in outcomes such as civic activism and identity development. It reports that youth organizing agencies show higher levels of…
Building a Field: Blue Shield of California Foundation's Strong Field Project Leaves a Legacy and Valuable Lessons
Relatively few comprehensive evaluations have assessed the principles, elements, and impacts of philanthropic organizations’ field-building endeavors. To help fill this gap, this article shares the results of a five-year evaluation of a large-scale field-building initiative: Blue Shield of California Foundation’s Strong Field Project. The project’s goal was to strengthen the domestic violence field by equipping it with a critical mass of diverse …
Navigating the Psychosocial Pressures of Adolescence: The Voices and Experiences of High School Youth
This article describes pressures and problems in adolescents’ family, peer, and school worlds that they perceive as powerful enough to have an impact on their ability to engage optimally in school and learning endeavors. The study sample includes 55 ethnically and academically diverse youth in four urban desegregated high schools in California. The primary data were obtained through four in-depth interviews with each student over a period of 2 ye…
Adolescents' worlds: Negotiating Family, Peers, and School
"Adolescents' Worlds is for educators, psychologists, sociologists, social workers and nursing professionals, and anyone seeking to understand and work with adolescents."--Jacket.
Growing up American: How Vietnamese Children Adapt to Life in the United States . Min Zhou , Carl L. Bankston III
Youth Organizing, Identity-Support, and Youth Development Agencies as Avenues for Involvement
What are the differences in outcomes among youth organizing and other efforts to involve young people at the community level? This paper examines differences in developmental outcomes among youth organizing, identity-support, and traditional youth development agencies, with the finding that there are significant differences in outcomes such as civic activism and identity development. It reports that youth organizing agencies show higher levels of…
Building a Field: Blue Shield of California Foundation's Strong Field Project Leaves a Legacy and Valuable Lessons
Relatively few comprehensive evaluations have assessed the principles, elements, and impacts of philanthropic organizations’ field-building endeavors. To help fill this gap, this article shares the results of a five-year evaluation of a large-scale field-building initiative: Blue Shield of California Foundation’s Strong Field Project. The project’s goal was to strengthen the domestic violence field by equipping it with a critical mass of diverse …
Executive Summaries
Philanthropy has a long history of supporting field building, but few comprehensive evaluations have assessed the principles, elements, and impacts of these endeavors. This article shares the results of a five-year evaluation of a large-scale field-building initiative: Blue Shield of California Foundation's Strong Field Project. It aimed to strengthen field leadership and organizations, and to create vibrant collaborative networks. Evaluation dat…
Exiting From Large-Scale Initiatives: Lessons and Insights From a National Scan of Philanthropy
This article shares insights and lessons from a research project commissioned by The California Endowment in early 2016 to inform the planning for its transition out of Building Healthy Communities, a 10-year, place-based, policy- and systems-change initiative. The goal of the nationwide study, which included literature reviews and interviews with 30 executives and directors from 17 foundations, was to tap into philanthropic leaders’ accumulated …
Evaluating for the Bigger Picture: Breaking Through the Learning and Evaluation Barriers to Advancing Community Systems-Change Field Knowledge
Foundations investing in community systems change often fail to prioritize field-level and cross-initiative evaluation questions in building initiatives. As a result, many of the documented evaluations of such investments lack translatable lessons specific and influential enough to drive related decisions and actions of others in the field. This article developed from ongoing, multiyear peer learning across several foundations that collectively c…
Political science (5 works) · Community Health and Development (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Field (mathematics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works)