Update from ACT for Youth
Youth Development Research, Resources, Opportunities
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Guidelines for Healthy Food and Beverages
ACT for Youth: Developed for youth-serving program providers funded by the NYS Department of Health, this manual offers guidelines, tips, and recipes for providing delicious, healthy food in program settings. This edition has been revised, redesigned, and updated for 2021.
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The Science of Learning and Development (SoLD) in Afterschool Systems and Settings
AIR: Often, when research or policy efforts are geared toward K–12 education or other large systems, the youth development field modifies those efforts and learning to apply to afterschool systems and settings. Optimistically, the fit works well with SoLD. In this brief, we describe the foundations of SoLD and explain how aspects of the current SoLD work align with afterschool systems and settings. This brief is the beginning of an exciting conversation about SoLD in afterschool.
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Preparing for Reentry: Supporting Adolescents as the World Reopens
CDA: Youth need support as we start to transition back to in-person activities. NSCA members Candice Odgers, PhD, and Nick Allen, PhD, have some ideas about what that support might look like.
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Empowering Today’s Youth through Comprehensive Sexual Education
HIV.gov: All youth deserve access to comprehensive sexual health education. National Youth HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NYHAAD) is an opportunity to work together to make this a reality. By educating youth about the basics of HIV, how to protect themselves, find testing, treatment and care services, and confront HIV stigma in their communities, we are empowering them to take an active role in ending the HIV epidemic for future generations.
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New Resources on Addressing the Intersection of HIV & Intimate Partner Violence
HUD: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Office of HIV/AIDS Housing (OHH) is pleased to announce the release of a set of three video recordings that highlight lessons learned and key factors to consider in addressing the intersection of HIV and intimate partner violence (IPV), which includes domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault, and stalking.
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Supporting Parents and Caregivers with Trauma Histories during COVID-19
Child Trends: A new brief outlines strategies that policymakers, service providers, and caregivers can use during the COVID-19 pandemic to support parents who have experienced trauma.
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Adolescent Development Explained
OPA: The Office of Population Affairs (OPA) worked with the Johns Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Adolescent Health to create Adolescent Development Explained a guide that examines the major developmental changes that occur in adolescence and provides suggestions on how parents and caring adults can support young people as they navigate through this critical period.
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Connections that Help Youth Thrive
Search Institute: This interactive training explores both of Search Institute’s research-based frameworks: Developmental Assets and developmental relationships. You will learn and how they can be used together as to help young people be and become their best selves.
When: April 28-29, 2021, May 18-19, 2021
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Students for Equitable Education Summit: Moving From Advocacy to Action
The SEE Summit is a national social justice summit envisioned and led by students from districts across the country. Offered virtually and open to the public, this event engages students—the very students whom the education system is underserving—as leaders, designers, and facilitators of authentic professional learning for the education community.
When: April 24, 2021
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Summer Bootcamp: Get Ready for Summer Series
NSLA: The Summer Bootcamp Series provides program leaders with the tools they need at this moment to keep kids healthy, learning, earning, and thriving through this pandemic and beyond. In this series, NSLA dives into strategies to accelerate learning, build critical partnerships, and plan successful programs with evidence-based practices relevant to any scenario of summer plans emerging this season.
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Summer Teaching Fellow Program |
PASE: The Partnership for After School Education (PASE) is excited to invite summer camp/programs that operate in NYC to apply to be a host site for a 2021 Summer Teaching Fellow. The Summer Teaching Fellow program provides interested and qualified summer camp programs with a trained college student who can provide a range of services including, but not limited to: developing and (co)facilitating educational enrichment and specialty activities, curriculum development, and small group and individual tutoring to children who could benefit from additional support. PASE recruits, hires, trains and provides a stipend for each Fellow.
Deadline: April 26, 2021
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This newsletter was developed with funding provided by the New York State Department of Health Bureau of Women, Infant and Adolescent Health. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the ACT for Youth Center for Community Action and do not necessarily represent the views of the New York State Department of Health. |
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