Homegrown partnerships that make a difference for youth

摘要: Abstract Comprehensive community change initiatives have attracted attention and resources in recent decades as a way to improve outcomes for young people through aligning local systems services. They yielded positive useful inspiring lessons. However, they also resulted disillusionment that fall short of their goals. This article suggests more organic approaches, based on purpose-driven partnerships, are worth considering, especially communities just starting think about collaboration or lack the ambitious system attempts. The authors discuss four such partnerships suggest offer an alternative, practical, sustainable approach change.