Abstract
The Project P.A.T.H.S. is a positive youth development program which attempts to promote holistic development of junior secondary schools in Hong Kong. It is ground breaking in terms of the number of schools participating in the project and financial resources injected into the project. Based on the experiences gained from the implementation of the project and evaluation data collected from 2005 to 2011, several issues pertinent to the development of positive youth development programs in the Chinese culture are discussed. These issues include complexity of program development, importance of training, identification of factors governing program implementation, need for evaluation, and promotion of sustainability of the program in the long run.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-1-2012
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/2012/687536
Repository Citation
Shek, Daniel T. L. and Sun, Rachel C. F., "The Project P.A.T.H.S. in Hong Kong--Lessons Learned and Implications for Positive Youth Development Programs" (2012). Pediatrics Faculty Publications. 31.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/pediatrics_facpub/31
Notes/Citation Information
Published in The Scientific World Journal, v. 2012, 687536.
© 2012 Daniel T. L. Shek and Rachel C. F. Sun. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.