TOPIC: Youth Development

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Center Developed Resources and Tools

Guidance Notes
• Engaging and Re-engaging Students in Learning at School
• Youth Participation: Making it real

Center Briefs
• Schools as Caring Learning Communities: A Center Practice Brief

Publications
• Fostering School, Family, and Community Involvement

Information Resources
• About Programs for After School Hours and Non-school Days 
• About School Engagement and Re-Engagement
• About Student Voice and Participation
• About What Young People are Experiencing During the Pandemic
• About Youth Development in Schools
• COVID-19, Remote Learning, and Students' Social-Emotional Development
• Cross-Age Peer Mentorship Programs in Schools
• Diversity in Schools: Facilitating Positive Interactions
• Peer Tutoring: Part of Learning Supports
• Perspectives on Balancing Academics and Social Activity
• Promoting Positive Peer Relationships: A Sample of Recent References
• Service-learning and Community Service Clubs in Schools
• Service learning in Schools
• Sex Education and Social-Emotional Development
• Student Perceptions of School Physical Education Programs
• A University Student Reflects on the Good and Bad of Social Networking use by Children and Adolescents
• Video Games as a Mental Health Intervention Tool

Featured Articles in Center Newsletter/journal
• Engaging the Strengths of Families, Youth, and Communities in Rebuilding Learning Supports
• Promoting Youth Development and Addressing Barriers
• Youth Participation: Making It Real

Policy & Program Reports & Briefs
• Youth Risk Taking Behavior: The Role of Schools

Practice Notes
• About Motivation
• About Student Voice and Participation
• Natural Opportunities to Promote Social-Emotional Learning and MH
• Notes on Transition Planning for College
• Supporting Successful Transition to Ninth Grade
• Working with Disengaged Students
• Student and Learning Supports: Increasing Availability and Enhancing Student Access and Use
• Talking with Kids When Assisting with Learning
• Talking with Kids

Quick Finds
• Peer Relationships and Peer Counseling

Quick Training Aids
• Re-engaging Students in Learning

Technical Assistance Sampler
• Protective Factors (Resiliency)

Young Adult Advisors
• What youth say about participation

Supporting Youth
• Assessing the meaningful inclusion of youth voice in policy and practice: State of the science
• Building Effective Partnerships With Youth: How Organizations Can Effectively Involve Youth
• Building stronger relationships between schools and youth development
• Career and Technical Education's Unequal Dividends for High School Students: The Stratification of a New Generation
• Community Programs to Promote Youth Development
• Critical Civic Motivation of Marginalized Youth: An Expectancy-Value Approach
• Cultivating child and youth decision-making
• Development of a Youth Civic Engagement Program: Process and Pilot Testing with a Youth-Partnered Research Team
• Disconnected Youth: Federal Action Could Address Some of the Challenges Faced by Local Programs That Reconnect Youth to Education and Employment
• District's work based learning seeks community partners
• Empowering Marginalized Youth: A Self-Transformative Intervention for Promoting Positive Youth Development
• Engaging older youth: program and city-level strategies to support sustained participation in out of school time
• Engaging Students as Leaders to Reimagine School Safety
• Engaging Youth in Partnership: A Resource Document for Youth Serving Agencies and Programs
• Engaging Youth in Partnership: A Resource Document for Youth Serving Agencies and Programs
• Engaging youth for positive change
• How Youth Surveys Guide Collective Community Investment and Planning: Benefits of Youth Data
• Personalized Learning and Service Learning
• Equity, Connection, and Engagement in the School Context to Promote Positive Youth Development
• Evaluating youth development programs: Progress and promise
• Evidence based youth programs
• Exploration and Risk-Taking: Hallmarks of Adolescence That Increase Well-Being
• Fact sheets on mentoring and youth development
• Fight Crime: Invest in Kids
• Finding Out What Matters for Youth: Testing Key Links in a Community Action Framework for Youth Development (2002) M. Bambone, et al. Youth Development Strategies, Inc. and the Institute for Research and Reform in Education.
• Having Students Learn by Teaching
• High School Students as Researchers about Their School: Exploring Its Potential for Choices and Skills
• How to Promote Positive Development and Decrease Risk in Online Spaces For Early Adolescents
• Innovations 4 youth
• Integrating Positive Youth Development and Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Approaches Across the Child Welfare and Justice Systems
• In The Mix: For Teens and By Teens
• Overcoming Obstacles
• Listen to them! The challenge of capturing the true voice of young people within early intervention and prevention models: A youth work perspective
• Positive Youth Development Empowers Young Workers
• Positive Youth Development Among Diverse Racial–Ethnic Children: Quality Afterschool Contexts as Developmental Assets
• Positive Youth Development: Configurations of Thriving
• Positive family relationships in a digital age: Hearing the voice of young people
• Preparing Youth to Thrive
• Promoting Positive Adolescent Health Behaviors and Outcomes: Thriving in the 21st Century
• Promoting Positive Youth Development
• Promoting Positive Youth Development Through School-Based Social and Emotional Learning Interventions: A Meta-Analysis of Follow-Up Effects
• Promoting Positive Youth Development Through Teenagers-as-Teachers Programs
• Rethinking child and youth activism in challenging times
• Student Change Agent Model
• Student members on school boards: a toolkit
• Use, Capture, and Value of Student Voice in Schools
• A scoping review of youth advisory structures in the United States: Applications, outcomes, and best practices
• A State Department of Education Work-Based Learning Implementation Guidelines
• Students as Teachers (National Association of Elementary School Principals)
• What Kids Can Do
• Webs of Support: An Integrative Framework of Relationships, Social Networks, and Social Support for Positive Youth Development
• Work based learning framework
• Work based learning toolkit
• Young people need experiences that boost their mental health
• Youth Empowerment Solution
• Youth empowerment and support
• Youth Engaged 4 Change
• Youth program adult leader’s directive assistance and autonomy support and development of adolescents’ agency capacity (2018)
• Youth voice: Indicators checklist

Youth as Leaders
• Authentic Youth Civic Engagement
• Collaborating With Youth-Serving Organizations to Enhance School Emergency Operations Plans
• Engaging Community Health Workers/Youth Ambassadors to Improve Health Literacy
• Exploring possibilities for child participation in guideline development
• Learning From Youth: Using Positive Outcomes to Evaluate Summer Youth Employment Programs
• Youth-led Participatory Action Research
• Strategies for Youth
• Student Voice: A growing movement within education that benefits students and teachers
• Surviving the strain of youth organizing
• Youth Civic Action Across the United States: Projects, Priorities, and Approaches
• Youth Voice in Community Schools
• Youth Who Learned about Voting in High School More Likely to Become Informed and Engaged Voters

Service Learning
• Climate change: youth in action
• Cimate change resources: youth
• Effective practices for engaging at-risk youth in service
• Giving Back: Introducing Community Service Learning
• The impact of participation in service learning on high school students' civic engagement
• National Youth Leadership Council: K-12 Service Learning Standards for Quality Practice
• Service, Activism, and Friendships in High School: A Longitudinal Social Network Analysis
• Young People Advocate for, Plan, and Provide Services to Their Communities

Youth Surveys
• Fairfax County Youth Survey Reports
• High school students perspectives on their futures
• Monitoring the Future
• National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
• National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being
• The Youth/Family/Consumer Participation Performance Measure
• Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System

General
• Adolescents' implicit theories of maturity
• Belief, attitude and critical understanding. A systematic review of social justice in Service-Learning experiences
• Center for Youth and their Communities
• Clark-Hill Institute for Positive Youth Development
• Corporation for National and Community Service
• ECS State Policies on Services Learning
• Emerging adulthood: age-related tasks and underlying self processes
• Evaluating youth development programs: Progress and promise
• Fact Sheet on Unintentional Injury: Adolescents & Young Adults
• Feeling Needed and Useful during the Transition to Young Adulthood
• Funding youth programs
• Funding for Youth Services
• Hearing Youth Voices and the "Schools that Work for Us" Framework
• Kids as Self Advocates: Over 60 tipsheets and guides written for youth, by youth!
• National Center for Learning and Citizenship: Schools of Success Network Shows that Service-Learning Quality Matters
• Operationalizing children's participation: Competing understandings of the policy to practice 'gap'
• Positive Youth Development Among Youth Living in Poverty: The Role of Psychological Needs Satisfaction
• "Positive Youth Development in the US: Research Findings on Evaluations of Positive Youth Development Programs" (2004) R. Catalano, L. Berglund, J. Ryan, H. Lonczak, and JD Hawkins
• The Promise of Adolescence: Realizing Opportunity for all Youth
• Promoting Positive Youth Development: THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL BASES Richard M. Lerner (2005)
• The responsible change project: Building a justice-oriented middle school curriculum through critical service-learning
• The Role of Purposeful Work Goals in Promoting Meaning in Life and in Schoolwork During Adolescence (2009) D. Yeaver & M. Bundick. Journal of Adolescent Research 24(4) 423-452
• Socially active volunteering students: The case of student councils
• Students as Co-Researchers in a School Self-Evaluation Process
• Student leadership in family-school partnerships
• Urban Parks as partners in youth development
• Young workers without a college degree
• Youth Engagement in Practice
• Youth Thrive: Research Briefs and Action Sheets