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Positive Youth Development - Useful Websites
Academy for Educational Development – Solving critical social problems in the United States and throughout the world through education, social marketing, research, training, policy analysis and innovative program design and management.
AmeriCorps – Link to AmeriCorps Network Northwest Oregon at the NW Regional Educational Laboratory web site.
Big Brothers/Big Sisters of America – The expert in youth mentoring.
Building Partnerships for Youth – (National 4-H Council, University of Arizona and University of California) – a web site that provides professionals with a database of programs to help youth 9-13 years of age make healthy choices.
Child Policy International – The clearinghouse on international developments in child, youth and family policies at Columbia University.
Child Trends – Dedicated to improving the lives of children and families by providing research and data to inform decision-making that affects children.
Child Welfare League of America – Positive development in out-of-home care.
Children Now – Dedicated to assuring children grow up in economically secure families, where children are supported by quality health coverage, good early education, a positive media environment, and safe, productive after school activities.
Connect for Kids – Helping adults make their communities better places for families and children.
Department of Labor Employment and Training Administration: Youth Programs - Information and assistance about various youth employment and training activities authorized under the Workforce Investment Act.
Forum for Youth Investment – Dedicated to increasing the quality and quantity of youth involvement in the U.S. by promoting a “big picture” approach to planning and policy development.
Fund for the City of New York Youth Development Institute – Working to affect youth policies, programs and practices at all levels of government and in all funding streams so that they reflect a positive model of youth development.
Girls, Inc. – A national research education and direct advocacy organization that inspires girls to be strong, smart and bold.
Innovation Center for Community & Youth Development – A catalyst for positive change in the way youth development takes place. Youth/adult partnerships in decision- making.
International Youth Foundation – Bringing worldwide support to the many exceptional local efforts that are changing young lives in every corner of the globe.
Job Corps – Nation’s largest and most comprehensive residential education and job training program for at-risk youth.
Learning In Deed - A tool for becoming informed and involved in service learning.
National Association for the Education of Young Children – Promoting excellence in early childhood education.
National Clearinghouse on Family and Youth – Links to resources pertaining to youth development.
National 4-H Council -- (U.S. Department of Agriculture-Cooperative Extension System) – Provides activities and opportunities for growth, learning, and community involvement for youth in every county in the nation.
National Institute for Work and Learning – An institute of the Academy for Educational Development. Seeks to promote active collaboration among the institutions of work, learning and community.
National Institute on Out-of-School Time – To ensure that all children, youth and families have access to high quality programs, activities, and opportunities during non-school hours.
National School-Age Care Alliance – Administers an accreditation process for school-age care programs.
National Service Learning Partnership – Establishing a strong, ongoing structure to foster collaboration on expanding service learning.
National Network for Youth – Dedicated to ensuring that young people can be safe and lead healthy and productive lives.
National Youth Employment Coalition – A non-partisan national organization dedicated to promoting policies and initiatives that help youth succeed in becoming lifelong learners, productive workers and self-sufficient citizens.
National Youth Rights Association – Champions of youth rights; excellent links.
Northwest Regional Education Laboratory Youth Development Program – Providing a wide range of training, technical assistance, professional development, curriculum development and consultation on youth development, community-based learning and school-to-work initiatives.
Oregon Mentors – Committed to the dramatic expansion of quality programs that provide mentors for young people in Oregon.
Promising and Effective Practices Network – Building quality programs for America’s youth.
The Positive Youth Development Project - Research findings on evaluations of Positive Youth Development.
Public/Private Ventures – National nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve the effectiveness of social policies, programs and initiatives, especially as they affect children and youth.
RAND Organization’s Labor and Population Program – Report on evaluating after-school care.
Sar Leviton Center for Social Policy Studies – Dedicated to improving the educational and labor market prospects for disconnected youth.
School-to-Work in Oregon – Career-related learning.
Sharing Success – New York State Education Department’s system for identifying and disseminating successful education programs and practices.
Stone Soup – The only magazine made up entirely of the creative work of children.
take care – A guide to safe relationships
Urban Studies Institute – Tuesday forum on teen risk taking.
Worksystems, Inc. – A collaboration of public and private leaders committed to creating a workforce development system which continuously anticipates and meets the needs of employers and workers; an NYEC member.
Younger Americans Act – Policy proposal to mobilize American communities to assure all youth access to the competencies and character development they need to be fully prepared as adults and effective citizens.
Youth as Resources – Provides small grants to youth and supports them as they design and implement issue-related projects. Past organizational and youth participants help provide training and technical assistance.
Youth in Action Network - Meet new people, have fun and help make the world a better place- a chat room for involved youth.
Youth Leadership Institute – Community based institute that works with young people, youth practitioners and the systems that impact them in order to build communities that respect, honor and support youth.
Youth On Board – Envisions a world where young people are fully respected, and treated as valued and active members of their families, communities and society.
Youth Today, Youth Tomorrow – An online workspace and resource center created and managed by the Forum for Youth Investment.
Youth Today – A nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people help youth.
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