Youth/Adult Partnerships-General
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Description: InvolveYouth is a campaign launched by the City of Toronto in January 2004 to encourage community-based organizations to involve young people in decision-making. The site includes a guide to help organizations create a respectful and hospitable environment within which youth can participate.
Description: Freechild is a group of young people and youth advocates dedicated to making social change resources more accessible for young people around the world, especially those who have been historically denied participation.
Youth Acts, Community Impacts: Stories of Youth Engagement with Real Results
Author: Tolman, Joel; Karen Pittman; Barbara Cervone, Kathleen Cushman, Lisa Rowley of What Kids Can Do; Sheila Kincade, Jeanie Phillips, Sabrina Duque
Description: Youth Acts, Community Impacts forces the question of whether or not we have powerful examples of community impacts that are the result of youth acts. In response to this challenge, Youth Acts, Community Impacts offers eight case studies--and a number of short profiles --documenting efforts in the United States and around the world, all connecting the dots between youth action and meaningful community change.
Description: The Youth Leadership Institute is a community-based institute that joins with young people to build communities that respect, honor and support youth. YLI reaches out to youth who have not traditionally been viewed as leaders and involves them in shaping community change. Each of our programs builds upon the assets and strengths of young people, engaging them in partnership with adults to create social change.
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Involvement and Interaction Rating Scale: A Tool for Assessing Youth-Adult Partnerships 
Author: Jones, Kenneth (1 more by this author)
Description: This interactive workshop introduces the Involvement and Interaction Rating Scale, a measurement tool that assesses perceptions and relationship experiences of youth and adult partners engaged in community affairs. Topics include demonstrating how the rating scale can help identify strengths and weaknesses of youth-adult groups, evaluate levels of youth-adult involvement and interaction and recognize characteristics of positive youth-adult relationships.
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PrACTice Matters: Youth as Evaluators: What is an adult to do?
Description: "Based on a literature review of youth R&E projects and our own experiences observing and working with youth researchers and evaluators, we offer advice for youth workers and other adults to support youth involvement in R&E projects without either abdicating responsibility or overpowering youth partners in the project. "
Youth Involvement in Evaluation and Research
Author: Horsch, Karen; Priscilla M. D. Little; Leslie Goodyear; Erin Harris; Jennifer Chase Smith
Description: The first in this series of research briefs on evaluation in out-of-school time, this brief draws on information collected from focus group interviews with representatives of 14 programs that are involving youth in their evaluation and research efforts. It examines the elements of successful youth involved research projects and offers short profiles of the 14 organizations included in the study.
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OMK—A Gold Mine for Civic Engagement
Author: Cross, Charlotte (2 more by this author); KEn Grey
Description: Sharing NH Operation: Military Kids (OMK) successful strategies for implementing civic engagement activities related to military kids will be the workshop focus. Participants will explore engaging: youth organizations (4-H, scouts), university connections (ROTC, student volunteers), community partners (veterans, spiritual community, after school groups), and public and private schools. In addition, participants will generate civic engagement plans for use back home.
Description: For youth and adult partnerships to succeed, it is important for youth and adults to have an understanding of what it means to work as partners. There are many benefits to developing and sustaining such partnerships, but there are also some challenges. Understanding possible pitfalls can help us think about and plan ahead of time so that we are able to overcome these barriers and focus on accomplishing our goals. Our aim is to create meaningful working relationships, avoid pitfalls, and sustain the youth and adult partnership.
Youth-Adult Partnerships and Positive Youth Development
Author: Zeldin, Shepherd (4 more by this author); Linda Camino, Matthew Calvert, Debra Ivey
Description: Youth–adult partnerships, or the process of youth and adults working together in a
climate of mutual respect, is a theme of significant importance to those of us with an
interest in positive youth development. Young people assert their desire for this kind of respect. Youth development practitioners recognize the value of these partnerships. Youth development researchers document the positive outcomes associated with this practice.
Youth voices, practitioner experience, and careful research all confirm the need for more youth–adult partnerships in today’s society. This monograph is intended to help advance that effort.
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Connecting Youth and Business: A Toolkit for Employers
Description: This toolkit provides step-by-step instructions to guide companies on options for supporting, training, and employing disconnected youth.
Putting Youth Participatory Evaluation into Action: Lessons learned and innovations
Description: Putting Youth Participatory Evaluation into Action: Lessons learned and innovations
Katie Richards-Schuster
Thursday, Mar. 14, 2013
8:30 a.m. - 12 noon
McNamara Alumni Center-Memorial Hall
200 Oak St. SE, Minneapolis map
Katie Richards-Schuster defines participatory evaluation as a process in which people join together and develop knowledge for action and change. It involves people in evaluation, community assessment, policy analysis, and other studies and it can give young people the power to ask their own questions and influence organizations and communities in unexpected ways. She offers that moving towards "evaluation research as program participation" can significantly change how we practice youth work. Join Katie as she shares lessons and innovations from Detroit, Michigan and other cities utilizing youth participatory evaluation, and the implications of this evaluative practice in local communities and the field of youth work.
Transforming Youth-Adult Relationships through Research and Evaluation
Author: Flores, Kim
Description: Kim Sabo Flores offers a playful and cutting-edge approach to youth participating in evaluation that has the potential to radically shift the way youth and adults form partnerships. Decades of progress in research and evaluation coupled with the evolution of positive youth development have contributed to shaping the field of youth participatory evaluation. Sabo Flores provides practical examples and tools that support youth involvement in evaluation and research and offers national and international perspectives on the development of the field.
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Capturing Positive Youth Contributions using the Community Capitals Framework
Author: Baker, Barbara; Mary Emery; Sharon Kinsey; Matt Calvert; Richard Enfield; Bonita Williams
Description: Recognizing and utilizing community assets, such as social capital (bridging or bonding relationships) is beneficial to at-risk communities. A USDA research group aims to demonstrate how social capital is fostered and supported through 4-H. This presentation shares ways to document positive youth contributions through community mapping through active learning.
Author: Emery, Mary (3 more by this author); Susan Jakes; Laura Laumatia
Description: This workshop will focus on coaching as an approach to building communities and organizational capacity to create, develop, implement, and support ongoing efforts that support healthy communities and youth engagement. Participants will learn strategies, such as storytelling, and discourse-based processes that move beyond the expert model to an engagement model that leads to sustainable adult/youth partnerships.
Incorporating Youth-Adult Partnerships within Community Decision-Making
Author: Jones, Kenneth (1 more by this author)
Description: This webinar highlights 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 discuss how they conducted site visits in five states to assess the dynamics of state 4-H youth development offices and to investigate what strategies are being used to promote youth in governance. Learn about barriers that can impede the growth of a partnership, as well as gain insight into the practices that build the capacity of youth in governance roles.
Involvement and Interaction Rating Scale: A Tool for Assessing Youth-Adult Partnerships
Author: Jones, Kenneth (1 more by this author)
Description: This interactive workshop introduces the Involvement and Interaction Rating Scale, a measurement tool that assesses perceptions and relationship experiences of youth and adult partners engaged in community affairs. Topics include demonstrating how the rating scale can help identify strengths and weaknesses of youth-adult groups, evaluate levels of youth-adult involvement and interaction and recognize characteristics of positive youth-adult relationships.
- More about "Involvement and Interaction Rating Scale: A Tool for Assessing Youth-Adult Partnerships"
Stakeholder Involvement as a Means of Promoting Adolescent Health and Well-Being
Author: Borden, Lynne (4 more by this author); Andrea Taylor; Mary Oliver
Description: Stakeholder involvement is based upon the belief that expertise does not lie solely with program professionals. Stakeholders are persons or organizations that have investments in the content of a program, or in the dissemination and evaluation of a program (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1999). Over the last several years the interpretation of stakeholder involvement has changed as programs have focused not just on individuals and families, but the broader ecology including neighborhood, workplace, schools, places of worship, communities and the society.. Stakeholders offer important insight into each phase of program planning, implementation and evaluation.
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Being Y-AP Savvy: A Primer on Creating & Sustaining Youth-Adult Partnerships
Author: Zeldin, Shepherd (4 more by this author); Jessica Collura
Description: This manual is designed to help all those committed to youth-adult partnerships (Y-AP) acquire core knowledge, establish and communicate a point of view about Y-AP, and build consensus on key issues regarding Y-AP.
Building Partnerships for Youth
Description: This website provides you with youth development program options to help youth, ages 9-13, in your community make healthy choices. It also provides valuable resources to make implementing these programs easier
Description: This federal Web site provides interactive tools and other resources to help youth-serving organizations and community partnerships plan, implement, and participate in effective programs for youth. FindYouthInfo.gov was created by the Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs (IWGYP), which is composed of representatives from 12 Federal agencies that support programs and services focusing on youth.
FireStarter Youth Power Curriculum
Author: Fletcher, Adam (3 more by this author)
Description: Designed to promote youth leadership development through community engagement. Includes activities to build community awareness, teamwork, and action planning skills. This free curriculum includes participant and facilitator manuals.
PrACTice Matters : Strengthening Youth Involvement
Description: This issue focuses on Strengthening Youth Involvement within an organization or community initiative. We report on ACT for Youth's experience promoting positive youth development, and lessons learned.
Author: Holder, Susan (1 more by this author); Landon Summers, Mississippi State University Extension Service; Michael Newman, Mississippi State University Extension Service; Joe Heimlich, Ohio State University Extension; Rae Wilkinson, Mississippi State University Extension Service
Description: Anyone interested in the well being of youth will experience a hands-on workshop that focuses on developing teaching and leadership skills for teens as role models, mentors and teachers. Mississippi State 4-H Program has developed an authentic youth-adult partnership training model that enables teens to participate in planning, operating and evaluating youth-focused programs and organizations. (2008 CYFAR Conference Program Showcase)
Author: Wagoner, Steve
Description: As agencies and youth-serving organizations experience a shortage of resources, it is more important than ever to effectively involve and utilize teens as resources. Learn the characteristics of teens and necessary skills of adults working with them. Teens as teachers is specifically addressed, as well as a variety of other effective teen roles in at-risk settings.
Youth Adult Partnerships: From Theory to Practice to Impact
Author: Powers, Jane; Brian Christens; Jessica Collura ; Shepherd Zeldin
Description: Learn about three projects that have implemented quality Youth-Adult Partnerships at the program, community and statewide levels. Hear models, resources, and research-based information that will enhance your efforts to engage youth and adults to effectively work together. Work with recently developed tools that provide practical activities and assessments that organizations can use to promote and sustain youth-adult partnerships.
Author: Dotterweich, Jutta (7 more by this author)
Description: Examples of handouts and forms used by the Upstate Center of Excellence in preparing and conducting their first youth forum. These handouts and forms may be used as guides in developing your own materials.
Youth involvement in prevention programming
Author: Klindera, Kent; Jennifer Menderwald
Description: This article discusses effective ways to involved youth in prevention programming.
Youth Participation: How do we make it happen?
Author: Dotterweich, Jutta (7 more by this author)
Description: Working with ACT sites in upstate New York around the issue of youth involvement, we observed that most sites experienced great difficulties in identifying meaningful roles for young people. Recruiting, preparing and retaining young people were challenging tasks.
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Making a Case for Engaging Adolescents in Program Decision-Making
Author: Olson, Jonathan; Catherine A. Solheim; H. Wallace Goddard; Lisa Sandt
Description: The research looks at the degree to which adolescents and adults view and report social problems.
Author: Kirshner, Ben
Description: In this CYFAR conference invited research presentation, Ben Kirshner addresses why and how youth-adult partnerships promote resiliency and civic engagement. Contrary to myths in the media, young people yearn to connect with real roles in the community and develop relationships with adults who show them pathways to adulthood. Young people are knowledgeable about what is and isn’t working in their environment. Everyone benefits when youth are invited to participate in decisions. He provides examples of successful youth-adult partnerships that engage youth in decision-making and public action, and discusses strategies for youth-adult partnerships in your own communities.
Youth-Adult Partnership: Involving Youth in Decision Making
Author: Zeldin, Shepherd (4 more by this author); Julie Petrokubi
Description: This narrated presentation provides an introduction to research, best practices, and resources that support effective youth-adult partnership. (22 minutes)
Youth-Adult Partnership: Involving Youth in Decision Making
Author: Zeldin, Shepherd (4 more by this author); Julie Petrokubi
Description: This narrated presentation provides an introduction to research, best practices, and resources that support effective youth-adult partnership.