The future of community safety and well-being: issues facing our emerging generations and the untapped potential that awaits

The emerging generations are ready and rapidly becoming more qualified to step forward into the service of a better society, a safer world, and a more sustainable future than ever before. As a community, we must begin to recognize the untapped potential that awaits, invite it inside, and learn together how best to harness and deploy it with a much more deliberate energy.

As such, we are issuing this special call for papers in hopes of receiving, reviewing, and featuring papers with an emphasis on this general ‘Youth” theme across all CSWB sectors. If you are working as an academic or practitioner in the fields of health, education, social services or justice, or across the intersections of all of them, we would like to hear how your work can shed new light on these ambitions.  We would be thrilled to receive articles on any of the topics below. Accepted papers will be featured in our upcoming regular issues, along with our other diverse selections of published works. 

Our article categories include Original Research (peer-reviewed), Reviews (peer-reviewed), Practice Guidelines (peer-reviewed), Social Innovation Narratives (peer-reviewed), Commentaries, Records of Proceedings, Editorials and unique Food-for-Afterthought perspectives. To learn more, view our Author Guidelines.  

On behalf of the Editorial Team, I hope you will join us in contributing to this ‘Youth’ theme, and we look forward to receiving your works. 

Norman E. Taylor 
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Community Safety and Well-Being 

Topics

K-12 Educators

Learning Strategies and Technologies

Engagement and Inclusion Strategies

School Violence Prevention and Intervention

Gangs and Drug Diversion

Family Outreach

Mental Health

Recruiting, Retention and Wellness Challenges and Solutions for Younger Employees

Post-Secondary Educators

Learning Strategies and Technologies

Sexual and Gender Violence Prevention and Supports

Career Development Strategies

Mental Health

Recruiting, Retention and Wellness Challenges and Solutions for Younger Employees

Child Protection Service Providers

Child Exploitation (including Cyber)

Radicalization to Violence

Social Media Impacts on Vulnerability

Technology Providers

Social Media Platforms, Projections, and Implications

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Youth Futures

Recruiting, Retention and Wellness Challenges and Solutions for Younger Employees

Youth Services and Outreach Providers

Community Strengthening

Sports and Recreation Strategies

Recruiting, Retention and Wellness Challenges and Solutions for Younger Employees

Police, Courts, Corrections and Criminal Justice Services

Gun Violence

Drug Diversion Strategies

Crime Patterns among Youth

Recruiting, Retention and Wellness Challenges and Solutions for Younger Employees

Health Care and Mental Health Service Providers

Youth Suicide Prevention

Emerging Mental Health Conditions for Youth

Outreach Strategies for Families

Recruiting, Retention and Wellness Challenges and Solutions for Younger Employees

Substance Use Service Providers

Youth Substance use Patterns (and emerging concerns)

Diversion and Dissuasion Strategies for Youth

Cannabis and Youth – Lessons Learned to Date

Drugs and youth crime (County Lines, Street Gangs, etc.)