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The following resources highlight various strategies
used for building a foundation using the youth development approach.
Family and Youth Services
Bureau (FYSB):
"Translating Youth Development Into Action" provides guidance to communities
facing the challenges of translating the youth development construct
into practice.
www.ncfy.com/ex12-98.pdf
League of Minnesota
Cities (LMC):
"The Power of an Untapped Resource" is a booklet designed by an Alaskan
teen who was the longest serving youth representative to a school
board in the nation, as well as the Co-Chair of the Alaska Adolescent
Health Advisory Committee. This concise, well-written guide contains
some basic criteria for creating an effective board that includes
youth representation.
www.aasb.org/PDF's/AASBPubs/HansB_bklt.pdf
National Clearinghouse
on Families & Youth:
"Reconnecting Youth & Community" provides guidance to youth service
providers, community leaders, and policymakers about how they can
help communities shift their approach to serving youth from a problem-focused
approach to a community-youth involvement approach. The publication
presents an overview of youth development and offers strategies
for implementing a youth development approach at the local level.
www.ncfy.com/Reconntg-YC.htm
National Collaboration
for Youth:
Members of the National Collaboration for Youth work together to
provide a united voice for all youth, advocating for improved conditions
and opportunities for their positive development. "Helping Young People Succeed: Strengthening
Relationships Between Schools & Youth" looks
at schools and youth joining voices to create a better community.
www.nassembly.org/nassembly/Final%20web%20document.11.6.02.pdf
National Governors Association
Center for Best Practices:
An estimated 9.2 million to 15.8 million children are considered
"at-risk" in this country. Despite perceptions that "nothing
works" for at-risk youth, research is now identifying effective
program principles and approaches in working with at-risk youth.
The goal of youth development is helping youth gain the competencies
to become successful adults. This brief, "State Youth Development Strategies to Improve Outcomes for At-Risk Youth," defines what is meant by
youth development and highlights innovative ways states are using
youth development policies and programs to improve outcomes for
youth.
www.nga.org/cda/files/000727YOUTHDEV.pdf
National League of Cities
(NLC):
NLC's Institute for Youth, Education, & Families helps municipal
leaders take action on behalf of children, youth, and families in
their communities. NLC launched the Institute in January 2000 to
recognize the influential and unique roles that mayors, city council
members, and other local leaders play in strengthening families
and improving outcomes for children & youth.
www.nlc.org/IYEF/index.cfm
NLC Institute for Youth,
Education and Families:
This website provides access to an action kit that looks at youth
participation, promoting youth service and youth mapping.
www.nlc.org/iyef/publications___resources/2181.cfm
National Youth Development
Information Center:
Takes a look at the most recently cited publications that provide
detail on the effectiveness of youth development as a programmatic
approach.
www.nydic.org/nydic/
Public/Private Ventures:
Public/Private Ventures is a national nonprofit organization whose
mission is to improve the effectiveness of social policies, programs
and community initiatives, especially as they affect youth and young
adults. From 1995 through 2002, P/PV worked with six neighborhoods
around the country to develop and institute a framework of "core
concepts" to guide youth programming for the non-school hours
in those neighborhoods. The goal was to create programming that
would involve a high proportion of each neighborhood's several thousand
adolescents.
www.ppv.org/ppv/publications/assets/115_publication.pdf
U.S. Department of Health
& Human Services -Administration for Children & Families:
The statement of principles, "Toward a Blueprint for Youth:
Making Positive Youth Development a National Priority, " was
collaboratively developed, and is supported, by a broad range of
Federal agencies, non-profit organizations, advocacy organizations,
intergovernmental associations and others.
www.ncfy.com/pubs/blueprint.PDF
Youth Development: Issues,
Challenges, and Directions:
During the past decade there has been considerable concern and discussion
about what Americans can do to improve the lives and life prospects
of our youth. In this volume of nine essays, leading researchers
and practitioners in the field of youth development share what they
have learned over the past decade about the potential challenges
of the "youth development approach" and offer some suggestions
about how to proceed in the coming decade.
www.ppv.org/ppv/publications/publications_description.asp?search_id=20&publication_id=74
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