At Our Best

<p><em>At Our Best: Building Youth-Adult Partnerships in Out-of-School Time Settings</em> brings together the voices of over 50 adults and youth to explore both the promises and challenges of intergenerational work in out-of-school time (OST) programs.  Comprised of 14 chapters this book features empirical research conceptual essays poetry artwork and engaged dialogue about the complexities of youth-adult partnerships in practice.  <em>At Our Best </em>responds to key questions that practitioners scholars policymakers and youth navigate in this work such as: What role can (or should) adults play in supporting youth voice learning and activism?  What approaches and strategies in youth-adult partnerships are effective in promoting positive youth development individual and collective well-being and setting-level change? What are the tensions and dilemmas that arise in the process of doing this work?  And how do we navigate youth-adult partnerships in the face of societal oppressions such as adultism racism and misogyny? Through highlighting contemporary cases of authentic youth-adult partnerships in youth programs this fourth volume of the IAP series on OST aims to introduce engage and sharpen educators’ understandings of the power and promise of these relationships.  Together the authors in this volume suggest that both building youth-adult partnerships and actively reflecting on intergenerational work are foundational practices to achieving transformational change in our OST organizations schools neighborhoods and communities.</p><p> </p>