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Youth Workers: When Did You Make the Biggest Difference in a Youth’s Life?
In the first of a new video series from the Department of Health and Human Services’ National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth (NFCY) that asks youth workers to discuss the impact they have had on the lives of youth, Linda Mascarenas of Family and Youth Services in Stockton, CA, talks about a teen mother who became a paid employee of her youth program.
You For Youth
This site helps youth professionals connect and share resources with colleagues, provide professional development and technical assistance opportunities, and offer tools for program improvement. The site provides information focused on afterschool programs.
YouthBuild
Youthbuild provides an alternative education pathway that encourages youth to obtain a high school diploma or GED, while advancing toward employment while developing leadership skills and serving the community.
Young AAPI Leaders Convene for the Fifth White House AAPI Youth Forum
AAPI, OPE, and the East Coast Asian American Student Union hosted the fifth White House AAPI Youth Forum and launched the second year of the Initiative’s E3! Ambassadors youth engagement program. The Youth Forum brought together more than 150 young AAPI leaders and advocates working within the federal government and in the community to discuss issues important to AAPI youth.
2015-2016 E3! Ambassadors
The White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) announced its second class of E3! Ambassadors. These 23 young leaders from across the nation are committed to improving the quality of life and opportunities for AAPIs by hosting events within their campuses and communities and raising awareness of critical issues facing the AAPI community.
Resource: Money Lessons for Kids of All Ages Website
This website includes resources and information that parents and youth-serving professionals can use to teach young people about making informed financial decisions.
Recent Events: AfAmWomenLead Initiative
This blog post describes the African American Women Lead (AfAmWomenLead) Initiative, established by the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans to support the development of Black women and girls. On March 12, 2016, AfAmWomenLead participating organizations throughout the country engaged in a day of service, celebrating cultural experiences and exploration.
Resource: Top 10 Tips for Engaging with Young People
This guide (PDF, 4 pages) advises service providers and others how to engage successfully with youth, using specific examples to illustrate effective (and ineffective) communication.
Resource: SAMHSA’S Youth Engagement Guidance
This resource includes information and tools that can help federal staff and contractors appropriately engage youth before, during, and after government-sponsored events and meetings.
Resource: YouthPower – What Works
This website promotes a Positive Youth Development approach to empower young people to become agents of their own development. Youth-serving organizations can use the What Works section for evidence on what works in youth and peacebuilding, what works in youth and health, and what works in youth and agriculture, food security, and nutrition.
Resource: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Youth Engagement Guidance
This resource guides administrators and prevention professionals on how to appropriately engage youth in government-sponsored events and meetings. Includes resources regarding a youth services approach, youth development, youth leadership, civic engagement, and youth organizing.
Youth Engagement Community of Practice
This resource provides a community where youth and youth-serving practitioners can share ideas, resources, and experiences in order to promote meaningful youth engagement.
Six Tips for Increasing Meaningful Youth Engagement in Programs
This resource provides recommendations for the key components of a youth engagement program. The recommendations synthesize discussions from the spring 2016 meeting of the YouthPower Youth Engagement Community of Practice and can be used by the youth-serving community.
YouthPower Learning Webinar: Makerspaces - A Tool for Youth Engagement
This webinar discusses how "makerspaces" foster movement, innovation, and creativity designed and maintained by youth. A makerspace is a collaborative workshop that leverages science and technology, along with innovation tools and approaches to spark creativity. Makerspaces can engage youth in meaningful ways through learning and teaching rapid prototyping techniques and empowering them as leaders in open source hardware and software designs.
Community Youth Mapping: A Tool for Youth Participation and Program Design
This resource describes community youth mapping, a youth-centered participatory development strategy that engages young people and adults in canvassing their communities to document community-based resources, needs, and opportunities.
Six Ways to Successfully Engage Youth in Peacebuilding
This resource shares some best practices that development leaders — particularly program designers and managers — can apply to give young people the opportunities they need to become agents of peace.
YouthPower Learning Webinar: Engaging Youth in Research
This webinar shares findings from a study conducted by the University of California, Berkeley for UNICEF on engaging adolescents in research. Youth-led participatory research techniques ensure that the youth voice is included in program design, implementation, and evaluation.
Share with Youth: Game Changers: Establishing a Youth Advisory Council
This resource will guide youth through some key concepts, planning tools and resources to help them develop youth councils.
Youth Engagement in Development: Effective Approaches and Action-Oriented Recommendations for the Field
This report was commissioned to identify effective approaches and recommendations to meaningfully engage youth in programs, policies and operational practices. It offers findings and action-oriented recommendations that are applicable to a wide range of actors in the field.
Share with Youth: Create a “my Social Security” Account
This website allows users, including youth, to access and manage their social security benefit information to plan for retirement.
Positive Youth Development
This webpage provides a definition of positive youth development, information on the eight key practices organizations can consider when implementing the approach, and resources communities or programs can use to incorporate positive youth development into their work.
YouthLead
This website is a virtual platform for young people, between the ages of 15 and 35, who want to make positive change in their communities. It provides opportunities to connect with like-minded networks of young people, mentors, as well as resources and events.
Promoting Positive Adolescent Health Behaviors and Outcomes: Thriving in the 21st Century
Promoting Positive Adolescent Health Behaviors and Outcomes: Thriving in the 21st Century identifies key program factors that can improve health outcomes related to adolescent behavior and provides evidence-based recommendations toward effective implementation of federal programming initiatives. This study explores normative adolescent development, the current landscape of adolescent risk behavior, core components of effective programs focused on optimal health, and recommendations for research, programs, and policies. You can download a free PDF copy (148 pages )here: https://www.nap.edu/catalog/25552/promoting-positive-adolescent-health-behaviors-and-outcomes-thriving-in-the
Youth Development Across the Federal Government: A Thought Leader Conversation with Cheri Hoffman
Recently, Karen Pittman spoke with Cheri Hoffman, who chairs the working group and also directs the Division of Children and Youth Policy for the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation at the Department of Health and Human Services. The conversation explored how the working group helps federal agencies approach positive youth development and emerging ways that the working group is tackling its mission. On this page you’ll find selected excerpts of the session along with the full recording, an interactive transcript, the slide presentation, and further resources.
Youth Leadership Toolkit: Member Outreach
Pamphlet discussing how to strengthen and build organizations through effective youth outreach.