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Youth-Adult Partnership: Involving Youth in Decision Making
Shepherd Zeldin and Julie Petrokubi
2011

This narrated presentation provides an introduction to research, best practices, and resources that support effective youth-adult partnership.

Additional Keywords

youth voice, youth adult partnership, positive youth development, youth participation, community youth development, engaging teens, engaging young people, engaging youth, involving youth, youth involvement, Y-AP, organizational development, organizational change

Narrated Presentation (22 minutes)

PowerPoint Presentation (764K)

Community Resources Assessment
Robert Francis
2010

In this narrated presentation, Robert Francis of ABCD Institute introduces program providers to the ABCD approach to community resources assessment.

Additional Keywords

positive youth development, mapping, community mapping, comprehensive assessments, community involvement, community engagement, strength-based approach, strengths-based approach, strength based approach, strengths based approach, program planning, program development, evaluation

Narrated Presentation (20 minutes)

PowerPoint Presentation (3.2M)

Five Promises: Addressing School Completion and Teen Pregnancy
Mary Grenz Jalloh
2010

Mary Jalloh, NYS Center for School Safety, highlights how the promises articulated by America's Promise Alliance--caring adults, safe places, healthy start, effective education, and opportunities to help--impact achievement and pregnancy.

Additional Keywords

narrated presentation, positive youth development, community youth development, pregnancy prevention, school dropout, school achievement, schools, community sectors, adolescent sexual health, adolescent pregnancy

Narrated Presentation (19 minutes)

Positive Youth Development
Jutta Dotterweich
2009

In this narrated presentation, Jutta Dotterweich of Cornell University presents the positive youth development framework and the research supporting this approach.

Additional Keywords

positive youth development principles, community youth development, strength-based approach, strengths-based approach, strength based approach, strengths based approach, collaboration, youth-adult partnership, youth engagement, youth voice, youth involvement, community involvement, community engagement, long-term commitment, resilience, resiliency, assets, asset-building

Narrated Presentation (14 minutes)

Strengthening Communities Through Youth Participation
Shepherd Zeldin, Julie Petrokubi, Jessica Collura, Linda Camino, and Jennifer Skolaski
2009

In its earlier work with communities, the ACT for Youth initiative made youth engagement a core outcome as well as a key strategy. In this study, the authors explore how the communities responded to the challenges of youth engagement.

Additional Keywords

youth voice, youth adult partnership, youth-adult partnership, positive youth development, youth participation, community youth development, engaging teens, engaging young people, engaging youth, involving youth, youth involvement

PDF (1.3M)

Assessing Your Organization's Readiness for Youth Development
Jutta Dotterweich
2008

This checklist aids organizations in assessing their readiness to engage youth in meaningful roles, a key strategy for positive youth development.

Additional Keywords

organizational development, assessment, youth engagement, youth participation, youth involvement, youth-adult partnership, youth adult partnership, engaging teens, engaging young people, engaging youth, involving youth, youth involvement, tools

PDF (17K)

Service Learning: An Overview
Research Facts and Findings
Karen Schantz and Nathalie Louge
2008

This article provides an overview of service-learning, including a summary of benefits to youth, and principles to guide the design of service-learning programs.

Additional Keywords

best practices, service learning, positive youth development, community service, schools, program planning, program strategies, program development, youth engagement

PDF (364K)

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Linking Research with the Practice of Youth Development
Practice Matters
Mary Agnes Hamilton and Stephen F. Hamilton
2007

In this essay, Mary Agnes Hamilton and Stephen F. Hamilton offer recommendations for strengthening connections between research and practice in youth development.

Additional Keywords

positive youth development, community youth development, evidence-based programs, EBP, evidence based programs, evidence-based practice, program planning, program development, best practices

PDF (89K)

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Making Youth Programming Effective through Youth Development
Jutta Dotterweich
2007

Best practices in youth development programming.

Additional Keywords

positive youth development, program design, program planning

PowerPoint Presentation (332K)

PDF (100K)

5 Cs
Jutta Dotterweich
2006

Introduces the 5 Cs: positive outcomes for youth. (Positive Youth Development Resource Manual section 2.)

Additional Keywords

PYDRM slides

PowerPoint Presentation (102K)

PDF (56K)