Community Development

These data-driven reports reflect the impact that AmeriCorps and AmeriCorps Seniors programs, members, and volunteers have on improving lives through the power of service. Read the state profiles to learn more. 

This toolkit (PDF, 15 pages) assists advocacy organizations in establishing ethical and youth-informed practices for facilitating young people sharing their stories in public, including through the press, legislative testimony, digital media, publications, or panel discussions. The toolkit aims to help young people understand their right to establish boundaries while sharing ...

If someone's life is in danger, call 911 or your local emergency number. We have shared crisis support services for specific needs.

This report builds from a body of work that describes how self-regulation can be applied as a framework for promoting health and well-being for youth through co-regulation.

This series contains step-by-step instructions to implement six evidence-informed and theory-based co-regulation strategies.

This brief describes a draft observation tool that was developed and piloted as part of a formative study to translate theory about co-regulation into practice in youth-serving Healthy Marriage and Relationship Education (HMRE) programs.

YouthLead invites youth-serving organizations and youth to unite with young changemakers for the #FairEqualJust campaign in May.

This handbook provides the opportunity to better understand the concept and value of social capital, explore a constellation of guiding principles that underlie social-capital-related work, and implement specific practices to help program participants build and use social capital to improve their future through potential reductions in poverty, increases in employment, ...

This four-week series from America's Promise Alliance and The 74 shares open letters from high school students to decision-makers in their states and communities that call for specific actions to address issues that arose from a recent town hall as top-of-mind for young people. One call to action was abundantly ...

Information about available streams of funding for human services providers, educational institutions, and individuals and families to access broadband and devices, compiled in response to the pressing need for connectivity and internet access in these times.