Building Strong Marriages: Resources for and Lessons Learned from Working with Stepfamilies

Date: Tuesday October 14th 1:30 - 3:00 pm Eastern
Description: What does it take to meet the unique needs of stepfamilies? This 90 minute webinar focuses on relationship and marriage enrichment as well as parenting education programs. Learn about the latest research-based program resources and teaching strategies to work with stepfamilies, a topic relevant to all educators working with parents and children given the prevalence of stepfamilies in today's society.
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Incorporating Youth-Adult Partnerships within Community Decision-Making

Date: Tuesday October 14th 3:00 -4:30 pm Eastern
Description: This webinar will highlight the findings from a national evaluation designed to discover ways states are promoting youth-adult partnerships and other levels of citizenship. The study's aim was to gain a better understanding of the challenges and successes encountered by 4-H youth development programs when launching statewide initiatives that engage youth and adults as partners. The presenters will discuss their research methods and findings, including strategies that work to promote youth in governance, barriers to youth leadership, and insights gleaned in the research process.
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Working with Incarcerated Parents and Their Children: It's an Inside Job!

Date:Thursday, October 16, 1:30 - 3 p.m. (Eastern)
Description: Today there are two million adults incarcerated US state and federal prisons; nearly half of them are parents of minor children. Parenting from prison can mean depending on friends and family on the outside to support one's family. Often there is the difficult task of explaining incarceration to the children. This free 90-minute "Connect" webinar focuses on what it takes to establish parent education programs in prisons. It is aimed at educators interested in creating programs for incarcerated parents and provoding support to nuture relationships between these parents and their children. If you have considered working with incarcerated parents but have questions, attend this training and learn about the latest research-based program resources.
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Positive Guidance and Discipline for Afterschool

Date: Friday November 21st Noon - 1:30 pm Eastern // 11:00 - 12:30 pm Central
Description: When is behavior part of normal child development and when is it a problem? How do afterschool staff redirect the child who is misbehaving? Both child and adult behaviors figure into the equation of a positive afterschool program. The session will look at behaviors and feeling, developmental domains tied to ages and stages, reasons for misbehaving, setting up a constructive environment, and using positive guidance and discipline techniques. Through activities, polling, and discussion, the training will address the afterschool physical environment, relations between children and staff, connecting with family and teachers, and staff acceptance.
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Archived Trainings

Outcomes: The Long and Short of It

Date: October 2008
Description: Outcomes are short-term, intermediate, or long-term benefits participants receive from involvement in a program. While determining short-term outcomes may be relatively straightforward, identifying long-term outcomes can be more challenging. An outcome considered to be intermediate in one program may be seen as long-term by another. The design of the program determines how short-term, intermediate, and long-term outcomes are defined.
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Engaging, Mobilizing, and Impacting Faith-based Communities

Date: August 2008
Description: Faith-based organizations are increasingly popular gateways for attracting partners and participants for educational programming, including programs on personal health, nutrition, community gardens, poverty and provide a means for prisoners to re-enter society. Learn about the challenges and rewards of working with faith-based audiences and organizations to implement educational programs.
Archived Session

Why Fathers Count, No Matter Where They Are!

Date: June 2008
Description:This free online training focuses on fatherhood and offers the latest information on evidence-based practices intended to help educators support men in their role as fathers, no matter where they are--at home, living apart, serving in the military, or in jail. This 90-minute training is intended for parent/family educators who want to learn about what's happening in Extension related to fathering.
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Helping Kids Be Healthy and Active

Date: April 2008
Description:The issue of childhood obesity is being address in many ways – through improved school lunch programs, increased public awareness, community events like fun runs, etc. But, there is still a serious problem with the number of overweight and sedentary children. This training provides strategies to help youth development workers address childhood obesity. The training focuses on three healthy living curricula.
Archived Session

What's for Dinner? Creating Family Connections

Date: March 2008
Description:This training covers strategies to help families connect, starting with mealtimes. Participants learn about the importance of family meals and the relationship between families eating together and childhood obesity. As background, you may wish to consult this Research Spotlight article.

Archived Session

Grow Your Impact with Community Gardens

Date: March 2008
Description: Community Gardens are a underutilized resource for Extension educational programming. While many communities have community gardens, Extension's involvement varies. Many times, schools, nursing facilities, hospitals or private landowners develop the gardens with no input from Extension. When Extension is involved it is most commonly only one agent or content area in the county that participates. Using Extension's wide content expertise, community gardens create ideal educational opportunities for practically all of the content areas of Extension: Nutrition, physical activity, youth development, entrepreneurism, horticulture, family resource management, community development, agriculture education, senior friendly communities, etc. A garden can be a powerful community hub for Extension education activities. Since community garden's will be at various stages of development, presentation and materials will be applicable for many stages, from planning, to partnership formation, to land and funding acquisition, to full fledge gardens, to redevelopment after land or leadership loss. As an example of a community garden used to reach a target audience, you may wish to read this Program Spotlight article.

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My Pyramid for Kids 101

Date: August and December 2007
The US Department of Agriculture developed MyPyramid for Kids, a child-friendly version of MyPyramid, to get children thinking about healthy eating and exercise. You can be a part of the good health solution by teaching youth about the nutrition and encouraging physical activity. Learn about MyPyramid for Kids website, resources available, and hands-on activities that reinforce the concepts. The session includes introductions of the CYFERnet School-Age Editorial Board, overview of the MyPyramid website, identifying key resources available on the site, and hands-on activities for reinforcing or enhances nutrition concepts. The training was previously present in August 2007.

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Accompanying Powerpoint Presentation

Systems Change: Sounds Great, But How Do I Do It?

Date: October 2007
Description: We seek to understand problems and lasting solutions through changing the "SYSTEM." This lofty idea is appealing in theory, but difficult to put into practice. Its not clear how systems work and what they mean for us. The training discusses systems change, reviews how systems thinking applies to programs, and how to become a systems thinker, presents new research on systems change, and interprets these findings and their applications for children, youth and families programs.

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Building Strong Marriages: A Tale of Two Extension Programs

Date: October 2007
Description: Learn about the new National Extension Relationship and Marriage Education Model, a research-based, theoretically grounded and best-practice informed tool to help educators design, deliver, and evaluate programs that support healthy couple and marital relationships, as well as two marriage education programs: Married and Loving It! and The Marriage Garden is an exciting new Extension curriculum.

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Focus on Research Designs: Improving Your Child- and Youth-Focused Research

Date: October 2007
Description: This presentation will assist new researchers and practitioners in how to navigate the pitfalls and take advantage of resources as they design and implement social science research studies with a child and youth focus. Attendees will learn about designing a good research project, issues surrounding measurement and psychometrics, issues surrounding established data, and questionnaire and survey design.

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Every Child, Every Promise: Turning Failure into Action

Date: June 2007
Description: Every Child, Every Promise (ECEP), a study by the America’s Promise Alliance, takes a comprehensive look at the state of America’s youth by providing benchmarks on the number of children receiving the Five Promises, highlighting gaps in the delivery of the Five Promises; giving the unique perspective of young people themselves; and demonstrating the economic benefit of investing in children’s needs. This webinar included a discussion of the findings from ECEP and a brief overview of the National Action Strategies that seek to address the deficits found in the report. Additionally, participants had an opportunity to discuss the implications of the findings from ECEP and ways that communities and states can use the ECEP data and survey instruments.
Archived Session

Parent Involvement in Schools

Date: November 2006
Description: Getting parents involved in their children’s educations is one of the first steps in insuring the educational success of those children. This CYFERnet telephone training conference explores many dynamic interactions that directly and indirectly impact parent involvement in schools. This training gives you an opportunity to learn about the different ways parents can be involved in schools, barriers to parent involvement, and to dialogue about systemic changes that can be made to promote parent involvement.
Archived Session

So You Have to Use Technology? Here Is What & How To

Date: August 2006
Description: A discussion of resources and tips for using and integrating technology in CYFAR projects. Resources available on CYFERnet are highlighted. The audience for this session was representatives from the 2006 CYFAR Sustainable Communities Projects.
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Using Digital Photography in Your Programs

Date: October 2006
Description: Digital cameras are a great resource for preparing newsletters, take home resources and posters for our programs. More than that, giving our youth and other learners cameras can be a great way for them to learn content and technology skills. This 90-minute session begins with several creative ways to use cameras in your program, including an opportunity for participants to share their best ideas and examples. It concludes with a primer on using digital cameras (as well as recommendations on how to teach others to use digital cameras).
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Joomla - An Easy to Use Tool to Build Your Project Website

Date: September 2006 Archive
Description: Content Management Systems (CMS) make it simple for anyone to manage and modify the content on a website without needing a lot of expertise in HTML or programming languages. One popular CMS is called Joomla. Joomla has a fairly wide range of features and works with a large range of modules and components for added functionality. Once a site has been set up, anybody who can use a word processing application already possesses the skills to manage content on a Joomla site.
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On-line Collaboration the Wiki Way

Date: From the September 2006 Archive
Description: Collaborators are often separated by time and distance. Trying to capture, collect, edit, and publish discussion notes or documents from a dispersed work group can be challenging. This is especially true if the contents are evolving over time. Online collaboration with wiki tools can greatly facilitate these efforts. Think of a wiki as documents in a simple, accessible word processor on a website. Groups can collaborate on the content using only a standard web browser. Viewing and editing can be controlled with passwords. Changes can be tracked and revisions can be rolled back. Session participants will get hands-on experience editing and creating wiki pages while discussing management and use of a wiki site.
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Emergency Preparedness in Child Care Centers

Date: From the September 2006 Archive
Description: Unexpected emergencies can and do happen. The best time to plan for the unexpected is before it happens. The key is to be prepared. The purpose of this curriculum is to help child care center directors plan how to handle emergencies, to prepare adults and children so they know what to do in case an emergency arises.
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What We Know and Where We Must Go to Promote the Healthy Development of Our Young People

From the CYFAR May 2006 National Conference Archive

Michael D. Resnick
Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health
and Director, Healthy Youth Development Prevention Research Center
University of Minnesota
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The Intolerable Burden

From the CYFAR May 2006 National Conference Archive

Constance Curry
Fellow, Institute of Women's Studies
Emory University, Atlanta
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Survivor to Thriver: Doing Community-Based Service Learning

Date: From the June 2006 Archive
Description: “My Hands for Larger Service”…4-H has a history of community involvement through community service. Join-in to share and learn how to take food drives and river clean-ups to the next level! Discuss how to engage young people in the decision making process and how to turn the activities into a civic engagement and social action project.

Participants will be actively engaged in the session to address the following objectives:

• To increase knowledge in effective community-based service learning (CBSL) programming.
• To articulate the 5-Step CBSL Model (experiential learning).
• To increase knowledge of the relationship between community service and civic engagement..
• To become aware of CBSL resources.

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Zama Youth Center Presentation - 4-H/Air Force Project

Date: From the CYFAR May 2005 National Conference
Description: Video presentation from CYFAR 2005 Conference
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Growing Up in a Socially Toxic Environment

From the CYFAR May 2005 National Conference

James Garbarino
Department of Human Development
Cornell University
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What It Takes to Leave No Child Behind

From the CYFAR May 2005 National Conference

Pedro Antonio Noguera
Department of Teaching and Learning
Steinhardt School of Education, New York University
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Effects of Child Maltreatment on Biological and Psychological Develpment: Implications of Preventive Interventions

From the CYFAR May 2005 National Conference

Dante Cicchetti
Department of Psychology
University of Rochester
and Director, Mount Hope Family Center
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Youth Development and Prevention: Bridging the Gap

Date: Archived from June 2006
Description: The fields of youth development and prevention have traditionally operated on parallel yet separate tracks. Prevention professionals generally focus on developing and implementing programs and policies that encourage young people to avoid “problem” behaviors, often operating through funding streams that make it difficult to provide a holistic approach and address broader issues of adolescent well-being (National Clearinghouse on Families and Youth, 1996; Pagliaro & Klindera, 2001).
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Family Storyteller

Date: Archived from May 2006
Description: Family Storyteller provides parents and educators ideas, resources, and fun activities for sharing books with young children. Family Storyteller is a family literacy program using children¹s literature and video tapes that demonstrate parent-child book reading. The program was developed in collaboration with University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, KNPB-TV, Washoe County Library District, and Washoe County School District.
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New Staff Orientation

Date: Archived from April 2006
Description: The Better Kid Care New Staff Orientation (NSO) curriculum takes orientation training to a whole new level. It provides highly effective training that can be offered on-site at the child care center with the support and supervision of the center director. The curriculum was developed with significant input from experienced center directors. High quality video tapes demonstrating best practice and a workbook designed to reinforce learning are important components.
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Obesity and the Built Environment

Date: Archived from February 2006
Description: Obesity and overweight have reached epidemic proportions in the United States, a trend that many are working to reverse. This distance education training, offered via Centra Symposium web conferencing, will explore the many dynamic interactions that are all important factors in trying to effect change in obesity and overweight. This training will give you an opportunity to hear about how our built environment affects obesity and overweight and dialogue about systemic changes that can be made to curb this trend.
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Relationship and Marital Enrichment Education E-Seminar

Date: Archived from April 2006
Description: Join your professional colleagues from across the nation for the 5th Annual Family Life Electronic Seminar Series! Learn about the latest in research and programming on relationship and marriage enrichment education. Watch and listen to on-line PowerPoint presentations from a panel of Extension Specialists with the National Extension Relationship and Marriage Education Network. Dialogue with these experts and other professional colleagues from across the nation during a 2-week on-line discussion.
View resources at http://hec.osu.edu/eseminars/ to learn more!

Rebuilding Lives After Katrina and Rita

Date: Archived from November 2005
Description: With the recent hurricanes in the Gulf region, most Americans are feeling the affects. This distance education training, offered via Centra Symposium web conferencing, will feature specialist working to help the hurricane victims rebuild their lives - whether it be in the place they lived before or in a new place, relocated from lost homes, work, family, friends and many things that provided familiarity and stability. This training will give you an opportunity to hear about how the hurricanes have emotionally effected families and communities, and what might be needed to support or even rebuild the strength and resiliency of these families; some of the financial ramifications of the storms and how we can help victims rebuild financial stability; and some of the realities of disaster recovery from rebuilding infrastructure to what FEMA can and can't provide.
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Using the Country Boys Documentary to Build Community Interest in Youth Development

Date: Archived from December 2005
Description: COUNTRY BOYS is an inspirational and gripping coming-of-age story about two boys from Eastern Kentucky's Appalachian region. Filmmaker David Sutherland (THE FARMER'S WIFE) interweaves the distinct narratives of two at-risk adolescents grappling with and overcoming daunting emotional and physical obstacles related to their unique family lives and the economic circumstances of this region. Their individual stories offer valuable insights into the universally complex problems that face all teenagers and those who love and support them.
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Teaching Basic Health and Safety in the Early Childhood Classroom

Date: Archived from November 2005
Description: CYFERnet is pleased to present an opportunity for you to learn more about "Teaching Basic Health and Safety in the Early Childhood Classroom" specifically designed for young children. This CYFERnet training will introduce participants to the curriculum and explore ideas for implementation.
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Child Care New Staff Orientation Curriculum

Date: Archived from October 2005
Description: An Interactive Breeze Meeting about conducting new staff orientation for child care workers using Better Kid Care
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Using Computers in School-Age Youth Development Programs

Date: Archived from May 2005
Lead Instructor: Bill Pabst, 4-H Educational Technology Specialist, 4-H & Youth Development, University of Missouri
Description: Playing computer games and using software tools is rapidly becoming a favorite activity for many children and youth. Integrating computers into youth development programs can add more learning to the fun and more fun to the learning.
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Using ECI Evaluation System for Afterschool Training

Date: Archived from April 2005
Lead Instructor: Toni DeWeese, ECI National Data Coordinator, UGA/CCB Research Coordinator II, The University of Georgia, Department of Child and Family Development
Description: In collaboration with the CYFERnet School Age Editorial Board, Toni DeWeese, ECI, will train participants in using the ECI data base and discuss the benefits to afterschool programs.
Sponsored by: CYFERnet School Age Editorial Board
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Citizenship and Contribution among Middle School Youth

Date: Archived from December 2004
Lead Instructor: Constance Flanagan Ph.D., Professor, Agriculture and Extension Education, Pennsylvania State University.
Vince Meldrum, President, Earth Force.
Description: Building Partnerships for Youth and CYFERnet are pleased to present an opportunity for you to learn more about the importance of citizenship and contribution in the lives of middle school youth development.
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Positive Youth Development and Academic Success

Date: Archived from August 2004
Lead Instructor: Heather Weiss, Harvard Family Research Project, Susan Philliber, Philliber Research Associates, Sam Piha, Community Network for Youth Development
Description: Building Partnerships for Youth, CYFERnet and Healthy People, Healthy Communities present an opportunity for you to learn more about the link between youth development, academic success, and positive health outcomes for young people.
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Technology In Youth Programming

Date: Archived from June 2004
Lead Instructor: Barbara Chamberlain, Iowa State University; Trudy Dunham, University of Minnesota; Bill Pabst, University of Missouri; and Jay Staker, Iowa State University.
Description: Workshop focus on the research supporting, and the process you would use to incorporate technology effectively into your child and youth programs, with extensive examples from Aerospace (rockets) and Communication (digital photography).
View related website: www.cyfernet.org/youthtech/
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Uncover the Secrets of CYFERnet: Materials, Training, and More

Date: Archived from June 2004
Lead Instructor: Susan Jakes, North Carolina State University and Janet S. Kurzynske, University of Kentucky.
Description: What are quality resources? How do we find what we need, when we need it? Come uncover the secrets of CYFERnet.
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Younger Youth and Positive Youth Development

Date: Archived from May 2004
Lead Instructor: Angela Huebner, Bernice Humphrey, Debra Delgado
Description: Younger youth between the ages of nine and thirteen are a key age group to focus on when thinking about and developing positive youth development programs. Positive youth development approaches with younger youth are among those methods that are most effective at preventing negative health outcomes, such as sexual risk behavior and unintended pregnancy.
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Effective Use of Online Collaboration Tools: An Interactive Centra Training

Date: Archived from May 2004
Lead Instructor: Bill Pabst, University of Missouri Extension, Floyd Davenport, Iowa State University Extension, Roger Terry, Kansas State University Extension
Description: This presentation introduces the concept of online collaboration, when it makes sense to use this technology, what you can do online and demonstrates some available tools for both asynchronous and synchronous collaboration.
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The New Americans: The New Challenges of American Immigration

Date: Archived from April 2004
Lead Instructor: Susan Jakes, North Carolina State University and Barbara Brown, Clemson University
Description: American Immigration is an issue in most every community in America. This session gives you an opportunity to expand your understanding of the issue and come into dialogue with others interested and/ or concerned about American immigration policy and community realities.
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Writing for Easy Reading

Date: Archived from April 2004
Lead Instructor: Janet S. Kurzynske, University of Kentucky
Description: Writing for easy reading is not just "dumbing-it-down." It is writing in a style similar to the USA Today newspaper.
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Maximizing Assets of Diverse Communities to Enhance Program

Date: Archived from March 2004
Lead Instructor: Gae Broadwater
Description: Description: A popular tool that is used in program development is asset mapping. This teleconference discusses key strategies for uncovering and accessing the assets within a community, particularly diverse groups, neighborhoods, and communities.
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Stakeholder Involvement as a Means of Promoting Adolescent Health and Well-Being

Date: Archived from March 2004
Lead Instructor: Lynne Borden
Description: Building Partnerships for Youth, CYFERnet and Healthy People, Healthy Communities is pleased to present an opportunity for you to learn more about how stakeholder involvement can promote positive outcomes for young people.
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School Age Resources for the Extension and Youth Development Educators

Date: Archived from March 2004
Lead Instructor: Maureen Toomey, University of Idaho
Description: Overwhelmed by the number of school age resources now available online? Not enough time to check them all out? Then, let us help narrow the field. Learn about school age resources that support youth development programming.
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Strengthening Programs to Reach Diverse Audiences

Date: Archived from March 2004
Lead Instructor: Dr. Lisa Guion, Director and Principal Investigator, Diversity Project, University of Florida
Description: The goal of the training was designed to introduce and familiarize audiences with the "Strengthening Programs to Reach Diverse Audiences" curriculum, which was developed by the CYFERNet funded Diversity Project at the University of Florida (Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences).
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Promoting Adolescent Health Through Cross-Age Teaching

Date: Archived from February 2004
Lead Instructor: Faye C.H. Lee, Ed.D.
Description: Building Partnerships for Youth, CYFERnet Teen Editorial Board and Healthy People, Healthy Communities is pleased to present an opportunity for you to learn more about how cross-age teaching promotes positive outcomes for young people. This training will use exciting new technology to help you learn more about this important issue.
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How to Use the Centra System

Date: Archived from January 2004
Lead Instructor: Sonja Jo Serna
Description: A demo and overview of the Centra audio/graphic conferencing technology which is being used by CYFERnet to deliver 10 training presentations for children, youth and families professionals during January - June 2004.
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Promoting Adolescent Health Through Youth-Adult Partnerships

Date: Archived from November 2003
Lead Instructor: Richard Shepherd Zeldin
Description: Building Partnerships for Youth, CYFERnet and Healthy People, Healthy Communities is pleased to present an opportunity for you to learn more about how youth-adult partnerships promote positive outcomes for young people. Youth-adult partnerships are relationships between youth and adults where there is mutuality in teaching, learning, and action (Zeldin, McDaniel, Topitzes & Lorens, 2001), and are distinct from parent-child, student-teacher, and mentoring relationships (Camino, 2000). Such partnerships focus on collaboration and emphasize young people and their contributions rather than their problems. Youth-adult partnerships are important because both youth and adults benefit from participation in these relationships. Young people, in particular, experience a number of positive outcomes from partnerships with adults. These include the development of leadership skills and improved self-esteem, as well as reduced participation in risky sexual behaviors and increased participation in healthy behaviors, including abstinence (Kirby & Coyle, 1997). Because new programs, curricula, and strategies for building youth-adult partnerships continue to be developed, it is important for the fields of youth development and prevention to learn more about effective programming options in this area
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Promising Practices in Afterschool: How to Submit Afterschool Promising Practices to the National Collection – Afterschool Program Interactive Training 2

Date: Archived from September 2003
Lead Instructor: Elizabeth Partoyan, Academy for Educational Development
Description: The CYFERnet School-Age Editorial Board, “Extension CARES…for America’s Children and Youth National Initiative,” 4-H Afterschool, and Academy for Educational Development are sponsoring this afterschool training for Extension faculty and staff who are engaged in afterschool and school-age programming. Learn how to submit a Promising Practice for review and potential inclusion in the national collection. PPAS is an opportunity for you to highlight the success of your afterschool program and share tips with other afterschool programs.The Promising Practices in Afterschool System (PPAS) is an effort to identify and share effective practices in afterschool programs and advance the afterschool field. Following are seven component areas that afterschool practices fall into. Some practices fit into more than one area, so this list is only intended as a guide to help you think about all the different parts of your program. As you read through these areas, think about how the practices that are in place in your afterschool program fit into these components.
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Youth Development and Abstinence: Understanding the Link

Date: Archived from September 2003
Lead Instructor: Stephen T. Russell
Description: For years, professionals have been conducting youth development programs with a goal of helping young people to be healthy, productive, and engaged in developmentally appropriate ways. At the same time professionals in the fields of HIV/AIDS, STDs and teen pregnancy prevention have been working with young people to help them avoid the negative consequences of early sexual activity. Most people agree that it is developmentally appropriate for young people, ages nine to thirteen, to remain abstinent. It therefore becomes apparent that the fields of youth development and prevention are working toward the same goal of helping youth be healthy and successful. Research is just beginning to help us understand the linkage between a youth development approach and the promotion of abstinence.
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Introduction to the Academy for Educational Development and Promising Practices in Afterschool System - Afterschool Program Interactive Training 1

Date: Archived from August 2003
Lead Instructor: Elizabeth Partoyan
Description: The CYFERnet School-Age Editorial Board, “Extension CARES…for America’s Children and Youth National Initiative,” 4-H Afterschool, and Academy for Educational Development are sponsoring this afterschool training for Extension faculty and staff who are engaged in afterschool and school-age programming.
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Intercultural Relations: How to Effectively Address Cultural Diversity in Extension Programming

Date: Archived from May 2003
Lead Instructor: Gary Weaver, School of International Service, American University
Description: This keynote address given by Dr. Gary Weaver, at CYFAR 2003, addresses ways to effectively address cultural diversity in Extension programming.
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Emergence of the Professional Parenting Educator

Date: Archived from April 2003
Lead Instructor: H. Wallace Goddard, Ph.D.,
Description: An Introduction to the National Extension Parenting Educators Framework (NEPEF). CYFERnet is pleased to present an opportunity for you to learn more about how to access and use CYFERnet materials in your program development and evaluation.
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Using Online Resources for Parents, Teachers, and Family Support Professionals in Times of War: A Conversation with the Experts

Date: Archived from April 2003
Lead Instructor: Susan Jakes
Description: CYFERnet is pleased to present an opportunity for you to learn more about the resources we have posted about helping your communities cope with the war in Iraq. Resource authors and experts will give brief presentations on the posted resources and answer questions you have about utilizing the resources in your communities. Topics include: Talking with Children about War and Terrorism, Classroom Resources, Stress and Coping, Protecting children from Traumatic Media Exposure,Patriotism, Related Organizations and Links and Resources for Military Families.
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Leadership Development: Using the IFAS Leadership Development Curriculum in your Community

Date: Archived from April 2003
Lead Instructor: Susan Jakes
Description: An opportunity for you to learn more about University of Florida's IFAS Leadership Development Curriculum. This curriculum is an excellent learning tool on both the nuts and bolts of leadership as well as the development of leaders in the community.
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Health Literacy: It Is Time To Take It Seriously!

Date: Archived from February 2003
Lead Instructor: Sandra Cornett, Ph.D., R.N.
Description: The Healthy People - Healthy Communities National Initiative would like to invite you to join a one-hour, interactive conference call to become aware of health literacy issues, learn how to select and create appealing, easy-to-read health materials most adults will understand and use, and to explore how health literacy initiatives can be developed in your county.
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An Interactive Teleconference on Sustaining Your Project: Steps to Developing a Sustainability Plan

Date: Archived from January 2003
Lead Instructor: Lydia I. Marek
Description: CYFERnet is pleased to present an opportunity for you to learn more about developing a plan to ensure that your project is sustained.
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Using Multiple Methods to Demonstrate Program Impacts

Date: Archived from November 2002
Lead Instructor: Tom Lee
Description: CYFERnet is pleased to present an opportunity for you to learn more about the use of multiple methods to demonstrate program impacts.
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Using Logic Models in Program Evaluation

Date: Archived from October 2002
Lead Instructor: Susan Barkman
Description: CYFERnet is pleased to present an opportunity for you to learn more about the use of logic models in program evaluation.
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Seminar on Family Literacy and The Family Storyteller Program

Date: Archived from October 2002
Lead Instructor: Lesia Oesterreich
Description: An opportunity for you to learn more about Family Literacy and the Family Storyteller Program.
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Lead Poisoning Prevention

Date: Archived from October 2002
Lead Instructor: Dr. Maureen T. Mulroy
Description: Session to help Extension professionals better serve the interests of children, families, and communities by educating them about the problems of lead poisoning.
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The Innovation Center's Building Community Toolkit

Date: Archived from June 2002
Lead Instructor: Kristen Spangler
Description: CYFERnet is pleased to present an opportunity for you to learn more about resources available through the Innovation Center. In 1996, the Innovation Center, with partners in Extension and communities, began testing approaches for creating positive change and building youth/adult partnerships in communities across the United States. The Building Community model includes processes for examining community assets, creating community visions and plans, and generating sustained community change. The model has been applied in more than 20 communities.
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Redefining Parent Involvement

Date: Archived from December 2001
Lead Instructor: Karen DeBord
Description: An opportunity for you to learn more about how to access and use CYFERnet materials while receiving training from experienced parent educators in Extension--parent educators who are parents themselves.
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Couples Education: Relationships in Good Times and Bad

Date: Archived from October 2001
Lead Instructor: Judy Branch
Description: Learning about the transformation that is taking place in couples education and how to access these resources on the Web.
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