Update from ACT for Youth
Youth Development Research, Resources, Opportunities
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Positive Youth Development Curriculum |
ACT for Youth: Newly updated, the Positive Youth Development 101 curriculum offers an orientation to the youth development approach for professionals new to the field of youth work.
Use this free curriculum -- ACT for Youth's most popular resource -- to provide professional development to new youth workers, supervisors, administrators, funders, and community volunteers.
All resources for the training are available for download.
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Child Trends: The federal government has made significant investments in school health, but these investments must be better coordinated and more focused on equity, according to a new report from Child Trends and The Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy. This report finds that federal school health efforts to reach students who face systemic barriers to health and education are limited.
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Understanding and Addressing Adolescent Relationship Abuse
The School Based Health Alliance is excited to share this new resource, designed to help health centers collaborate with schools and community organizations to promote healthy relationships and better serve adolescents impacted by relationship abuse.
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Adolescence and Anti-Black Racism
The first council report from the National Scientific Council on Adolescence (NSCA), summarizes research on how racism and related inequities impact key developmental milestones of adolescence and offers recommendations to support Black youth within key social contexts of the middle and high school years.
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Giving Kids the Tools They Need to Get Active During COVID-19
Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion: This blog post highlights how the Greater Youth Sports Association helped make sure low-income kids could safely participate in sports programming during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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10 Ways to Recharge Bullying Prevention Efforts
StopBullying.gov: Children and teens around the country are returning to school with new classes, teachers, and maybe even new peers. Many students are back together again in person, while others remain virtually connected, or in a hybrid format. Regardless, the beginning of a school year can be a fun and exciting fresh start for students to reconnect with friends, begin new projects, join clubs or activities, and form new friendships. Every school year is a great opportunity for schools, parents, and students to make improvements on bullying prevention efforts.
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Mentoring Youth Impacted by the Opioid Crisis
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention: While we are still learning about the impacts of the pandemic, increased isolation, and major changes in how we all operate in school, at home, and in community; we know that the opioid crisis continues to affect youth and their families across the country. This webinar will start with a presentation by Elizabeth Joy, MBA, MSW, LISW-S, LCDCIII, BCC; and a moderated panel discussion with two organizations integrating understanding of this issue into their mentoring models.
Date: September 28, 2:00 PM EST
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Mentoring Youth Impacted by Sexual Exploitation
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention: Join MENTOR, My Life My Choice, and Youth Collaboratory for information sharing and discussion around defining sexual exploitation and its risk factors. This webinar will discuss how to support youth who have experienced this or are at risk for experiencing it. It will also discuss survivor-led programming, trauma-informed responses, and prevention.
Date: September 30, 2:00 PM EST
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Shaping The Future of Work: What Employers Can Learn from Young Workers
America’s Promise and PBS invite you to join a virtual youth-led conversation about the future of the American workplace. This conversation—facilitated by speaker and creator Boo Milton, and led by a diverse panel of early-career workers—will focus on how young people themselves can help inform employers as they seek to create work environments that attract and retain young talent.
Date: September 29, 12:00 PM EST
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In My Mind Conference: Youth Mental Wellness - Resilience in Uncertainty
This two-day forum brings together mental health consumers, clinicians, students and academics from across the region, nation and globe in formats to encourage a rare cross-pollination of concerns and experiences; providing opportunities for these groups to speak with and listen to each other as they raise, explore and discuss the many subject areas affecting the mental health of young LGBTQ+/Same-Gender Loving (LGBTQ+/SGL) people of color.
Date: October 7-8
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Aura Cacia Positive Change Project
Funding to support organizations and programs that enable disadvantaged women and girls to become more stable and self-sufficient. This includes strategies to help women and girls live healthfully and purposefully by reinforcing positive self-image, self-respect, and self-confidence. Funding will also create opportunities for women to drive curriculum or programming that can be applied to program development and mentoring other women.
Deadline: September 30, 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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