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POSITIVE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT (PYD)
“Combining great minds is youth-adult partnership!”
Tessa Medina-Lucero, MPH
NMDOH Adolescent Health Coordinator
LEVELS OF YOUTH ENGAGEMENT
PYD FACTSHEETS & HANDOUTS
FACT SHEETS
Cross-Age Teaching Discover how programs that engage older youth in working with younger youth result in great benefits for everyone, and learn specific strategies for encouraging cross-age teaching and mentoring programs in your community |
Stakeholder Involvement Discover the relationship between stakeholder involvement and program success, and learn specific ways to elicit stakeholder insights during each phase of program planning, implementation and evaluation |
Target Age: Nine to Thirteen Year Olds Discover the relationship between youth development efforts and healthy decision-making in preadolescent and early adolescent youth, and learn practical reasons for taking a youth development approach when working with this age group. |
Youth Development and Abstinence Discover the relationship between youth development and abstinence in young people, and learn how research supports using a youth development approach in abstinence education programs. |
Youth-Adult Partnerships Discover the importance of youth-adult partnerships for overall community well-being and learn specific strategies for increasing the likelihood that they will be successful. |
Academic Success Discover the indicators and positive outcomes that are associated with academic success in youth in the 21st century, and learn specific strategies for promoting academic success in your community. |
Creativity Discover why the cultivation of creativity is a key component of programs and strategies that produce positive outcomes for youth, and learn specific ways to encourage the development of youth creativity in your community. |
Decision-Making Reasoning Skills Discover the relationship between decision-making skills and the promotion of positive behaviors and the prevention of problem behaviors in youth, and learn specific methods to promote the development of decision-making skills in the youth of your community. |
Citizenship and Contribution Discover the relationship between citizenship and contribution and the reduction of youth risk behaviors such as truancy and risky sexual behavior, and learn specific ways to promote the development of youth citizenship in your community. |
Close Relationships With Caring Adults Discover the importance of youth developing relationships with caring adults, including increased healthy behaviors, and academic performance and how to effectively facilitate the development of these supportive relationships within your community. |
Communication Discover how developing skills in a variety of communication styles supports youth to be empowered and effective in expressing themselves, and learn specific ways in which you can promote the development of communication within your community. |
Facing Challenges / Taking Initiative Discover how youth development programs that help young people develop initiative and face challenges will prepare them to succeed in today's rapidly changing world and help them avoid potential problem behaviors, and learn specific strategies for promoting youth self-efficacy in your community. |
HANDOUTS
| PYD Brochure A one page fact sheet on the basics of PYD |
Lesson Plans & Other Resources
PYD Programs, Groups, Clubs, Councils, ETC...
After-School Initiative ’s Toolkit for Evaluating Positive Youth Development Engaging Youth in Participatory Research and Evaluation Measuring Youth Development Outcomes for Community Program Evaluation and Quality Improvement: Findings From Dissemination of the Rochester Evaluation of Asset Development for Youth (READY) Tool. The article reports on the early implementation and combined benchmark data generated from the use of the Rochester Evaluation of Asset Development for Youth (READY) tool by community-based youth-serving agencies in Rochester, New York. Unlike program quality assessment tools that rely on observations made by adults, READY provides programs with feedback from their youth participants. Abstract HTML PDF (7 pages) |
PYD in the US: Research Findings on Evaluation of Effective PYD Programs |
This study shows that engaging youth in research and evaluation not only generates useful knowledge for communities and individuals but also provides opportunities for the development and empowerment of youth participants, leading to benefits for young people, organizations, the broader community, and the research process. Abstract HTML PDF (9 pages) |
This toolkit contains a number of evaluation question sets that staff of an after-school program may find useful in assessing youth outcomes. (pdf; 116 pages) |
| Envision Your Future |
| National Alliance for School Based Health Care |
| National Forum for Youth in Community |
| NM Alliance for School Based Health Care |
| NM Civic Engagement |
| NM Forum for Youth in Community |
| NMDOH Maternal & Child Health |
| NMDOH Office of School & Adolescent Health |
| UNM Envision New Mexico |