FEBRUARY 2010
Is it Spring yet? So many new and exciting offerings sprouting up in the youth development field, can you feel the creative energy? Enjoy this month’s issue!
ONLINE FORUM—HEALTHY TEEN RELATIONSHIPS—HAPPENING NOW!!
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation presents ‘A Healthy Conversation About Teen Relationships’ February 22- March 5. This special online forum has been launched to coincide with the nation’s first Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. Youth, educators, experts, academics, policy makers, service providers, community leaders, and health and media professionals are all encouraged to join the discussion about healthy relationships to advance the field, learn from one another and find solutions to address this serious public health problem.
To Join the conversation, visit this link: A Healthy Conversation about Teen Relationships. Respond to board questions, comment on other responses and/or share your ideas, best practices, information, challenges and successes on:
Identifying and Engaging New Partners
Mobilizing Youth to Take Action
Innovative, Insight and Advice
A Public Health Priority
NEW!! RESEARCH AND TOOLS TO SUPPORT QUALITY IN AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS
The Lucille Packard Foundation for Children’s Health recently released the updated companion Resource Guide to the report, Putting It All Together: Guiding Principles for Quality After-School Programs Serving Preteens. This online Resource Guide provides recent research and tools to help service providers strengthen their after-school programs, particularly those serving preteens. The guide is organized around the six principles of quality after-school programs that are described in the above-mentioned report from 2008, including; Focused and Intentional Strategy, Exposure, Supportive Relationships, Family Engagement, Cultural Competence, Continuous Program Improvement, and additional resources. View the full online Resource Guide or Read the full report .
ENGAGING YOUTH…ON THEIR TURF
Creative Approaches to Connecting Youth Through Community. This recent publication from Healthy Teen Network focuses on how adolescent health professionals can utilize creative approaches to engaging youth in positive youth development. The publication highlights six examples of programs that reach out to youth in non-traditional communities through parental engagement, athletics, service-learning, art, mentoring, and youth empowerment approaches.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: MENTOR’s ELEMENTS OF EFFECTIVE PRACTICE™ WEBINAR
This webinar is geared toward mentoring programs and will provide an overview of the third edition of the Elements of Effective Practice, the mentoring field’s best practices standards, highlighting the research and studies that underpin the benchmarks and suggested enhancements. Featured speakers include Dr. Jean Rhodes, Chair, MENTOR's Research & Policy Council and Professor of Psychology, University of Massachusetts – Boston; and Dr. Janis Kupersmidt, President and Senior Research Associate of innovation Research & Training. Dr. Kupersmidt managed the revision of MENTOR's Elements: Select a session that fits your schedule.
Monday, March 8, 2010 from 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, EST Register Now
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 from 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm, EST Register Now
This message is supported by Cooperative Agreement # U58-DP000456 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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