Using an emergent design, this study developed a program approach for young people in the child headed households of Zambia. Phase I dealt with prior ethnography, Phase II focused on independent living services, and Phase III concerned translation to Zambia. A total of 36 participants from Richmond, consisting of 20 Richmond Department of Social Services workers and youth and 16 Africans, were recruited. Three major themes emerged: feasibility, content, and quality. Lessons learned about translational research highlight the need for uniformity in a cultural screen’s composition. This might enhance the richness of perspectives on young people. Lessons for the Department of Social Services include a need to focus on tracking young people exiting services. This might involve exit interviews with young people and guidance with life decisions. There were lessons about decisions regarding local and expert knowledge in the translation process. This often becomes difficult when there are no assurances of participant uniformity. Paying attention to issues of local and expert knowledge would eliminate decision barriers that might arise during the translational process. Implications for social work education suggest that an emphasis on cultural competency might help students at the BSW and MSW levels to become better managers of adolescents. Implications for practice and policy include enhancing access to education and health for all young people. This process might be facilitated by the enactment of polices that highlight education and health for all young people at national and state levels. The following are crucial considerations for practice with young people: recruiting and training appropriate staff, promoting civic education, collaborating with young people, strengthening community involvement, strengthening agency collaboration, and developing targeted services. Implications for further research include: exploring what areas to consider when making a paradigm jump, considering cultural principles as bridges for making that jump, examining the implications for translational research as opposed to diffusion of innovation, determining what types of research samples would eliminate some of the gender issues that emerge with focus groups, recruiting more young people as participants, and conducting a study that focuses on lived experiences of young people.

L’objectif général de cette recherche de développement vise à évaluer à l’aide d’une grille de critères didactiques développée si les albums disponibles dans la collection de la didacthèque de l’Université de Montréal répondent aux besoins liés à la didactique du français des étudiants au baccalauréat en enseignement primaire et éducation préscolaire. Puisque la poursuite de cet objectif général se fait par l’entremise d’un objet développé, soit une grille d’évaluation des albums composés de critères didactiques, afin de suivre les quatre phases de développement d’un objet, trois objectifs spécifiques sont déployés. Le premier objectif spécifique sert à dégager les critères propres à la didactique du français à considérer pour évaluer les albums dans les didacthèques. Des entrevues semi-dirigées avec des enseignantes expertes dans l’utilisation des livres jeunesse (n=7) et des chargées de cours en didactique du français (n=5) ont permis d’analyser les besoins pour le développement de la grille d’évaluation, ce qui correspond à la première phase d’une recherche de développement. Le deuxième objectif spécifique vise à élaborer la grille d’évaluation des albums basée sur des critères propres à la didactique du français. Cela est effectué dans un mouvement itératif, entre les deuxième et troisième phases de la recherche de développement, soit celle qui concerne la conception de l’objet et celle qui en permet l’évaluation. Par conséquent, six grilles sont passées par différentes phases d’évaluation et de conception, dans un mouvement de va-et-vient. La sixième version, mise à l’essai sur la collection d’albums de la didacthèque de l’Université de Montréal, correspond à la quatrième phase d’une recherche de développement. Elle est en accord avec le troisième objectif spécifique qui est de mettre à l’essai la grille d’évaluation développée basée sur des critères didactiques sur une collection d’albums d’une didacthèque. Les résultats de notre mise à l’essai et les résultats obtenus par notre grille nous amènent à constater avec nuance l’adéquation entre les albums disponibles et la communauté servie par la didacthèque, et plus précisément les étudiants au baccalauréat en enseignement primaire et éducation préscolaire. Cependant, il semble que la désuétude observée des titres de l’échantillon peut avoir une incidence sur d’autres critères évalués. / The main purpose of this designed-based research (DBR) is to assess with a developed criteria grid whether the picturebooks available in the collection of the Université de Montréal Curriculum materials center (CMC) meet the needs related to the teaching and learning of French of undergraduate students in Preschool and Elementary Education program. Since the pursuit of this general purpose is done through an object developed in a DBR, which is an evaluation grid for picturebooks composed of criteria useful for teaching and learning of French, the three specific purposes follow the four phases of that type of research. The first purpose serves to identify convenient criteria to the teaching and learning of French to be considered in order to assess the picturebooks in a CMC. Semi-structured interviews with primary teachers who are experts in the use of children’s books (n=7) and instructors in teaching and learning of French (n=5) made it possible to analyze the needs for the development of the evaluation grid, which corresponds to the first phase of a DBR. The second specific purpose is to develop the picturebooks evaluation grid based on criteria relating to the teaching and learning of French. This is done in a iterative movement, between the second and the third phases of a DBR. Those phases are related to the design of the object and his evaluation. As a result, six grids went through those different phases of design and evaluation, back and forth. The sixth version, tested on the picturebooks collection of the Université de Montréal CMC, corresponds to the fourth phase of a DBR. This phase is consistent with the third specific purpose, which is to use the developed criteria grid to assess a picturebooks collection of a CMC (n=175) using the evaluation grid based on criteria useful for teaching and learning of French. The results obtained by our grid lead us to note with nuance the adequacy between the available picturebooks and the community served by the CMC, and more specifically undergraduate students in Preschool and Elementary Education program. However, it appears that the observed obsolescence of the sample may have an impact on other observed criteria.