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Walker and Rebecca N. Saito  \nResearch demonstrates that involvement in high-quality youth programs benefits young people personally, socially, and academically (Durlak & Weissberg, 2007) . Yet many families—particularly low-income and minority families—are unsatisfied with the quality, affordability, and availability of options in their communities (Duffett & Johnson,2004;Lochner,Allen,&Blyth,2009). Participation  \nrates are especially low for youth who come from families and communities with lower incomes (Lochner et al. , 2009; Pittman, Wilson-Ahlstrom, & Yohalem, 2003; Saito, Benson, Blyth, & Sharma, 1995) . In addition, growing evidence documents that rates of participation in youth development programs drop around age 12 or 13 and remain low (Farrell, 2008; Saito, 2009; Simpkins, Little, & Weiss, 2004) . In many communities, opportunity gaps limit how many youth can benefit (Lochner et al. , 2009; Saito, 2004) . The limited number of available opportunities is one barrier to participation. Lack of awareness of pro  \ngrams that do exist is another persistent barrier (Saito, et al. , 1995) .  \nThe Youth Action Crew (YAC) initiative in Minneapolis was designed to address these troubling gaps by identifying available youth development opportunities,  \nKATHRIN C. WALKER, Ph. D., is a research associate at the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development, where she conducts applied research and evaluation on youth development practice and programs. Her works centers on understanding, evaluating, and elevating youth work practice. Her current research explores the dilemmas practitioners face in their everyday work with youth and their strategies for addressing these challenges. Kate received her doctoral degree in Educational Psychology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  \nREBECCA N. SAITO is a youth worker, researcher, and author whose passion and work over the past 30 years has focused on deepening our understanding of, and effect on, the well-being of young people and communities. Her current work focuses on promoting and supporting older youth engagement and learning through action and applied research about community-based strategies to promote positive youth development. Beki held the 2004–2005 Howland Family Endowment for Youth Leadership Development Chair at the University of Minnesota Extension Center for Youth Development, where she is currently a senior research associate.  \ncreating maps to raise awareness of these opportunities, and defining local gaps in youth services. This communitybased youth engagement project provided youth and adults with resources to identify, promote, and develop youth-friendly programs and places. This case study shows the potential of the YAC project as a model for such youth-led community mapping initiatives.  \nMethods  \nThis article is based on a retrospective case study evaluation of the YAC initiative conducted in 2010 (Walker, 2011) . It draws on an earlier formative evaluation conducted in  \nAbout the Youth Action Crew Initiative  \nYAC is a youth-led research, mapping, marketing, and community development initiative. Teams or “crews” of young people and the adults who support them canvass their neighborhood and interview youth and adult community members, create maps of youth-friendly places, and distribute the maps to parents and youth in order to promote youth participation in out-of-school time activities. Some YACs work further to promote the development of opportunities and resources to better serve the community’s youth and families.  \n2006, which included four focus groups with YAC youth participants and crew leaders (Harris, Valrose, Martin, & Ishizaki, 2007) . The purpose of the evaluation was to describe the YAC process, document its development and implementation, and summarize the ac-  \nRoughly half of young people did not participate in youth development p","cbCaioAN1hFIQfQU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaioAN1hFIQfQU","pdf",2162644,"English","# About the Youth Action Crew Initiative\n## Methods\n## History\n## Evaluation Questions\n## Background, Contributions, Challenges, Implications","[{\"question\":\"Why did the YAC initiative focus on mapping youth opportunities?\",\"answer\":\"Participation in youth development is hindered by limited available options and lack of awareness. 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