Mobilizing New York State communities for positive youth development.

New Research and Resources for Youth Development

Teen Demographics: This updated fact sheet offers selected statistics regarding U.S. youth and extensive links for further information. Health, violence and mortality, sexual health, substance use, education, volunteerism, youth online, and family relationships are all topics covered by the Teen Demographics fACT sheet.

Conference resources: Workshop presenters are beginning to make available resources from the ACT for Youth 2008 conferences.

Youth Development Training Resource: Positive Youth Development Resource Manual. ACT for Youth offers this user-friendly online (and fully downloadable) youth development training manual for use in educating community groups about positive youth development. The manual includes training activities with lesson plans/facilitation tips, handouts, brief power point presentations and references to other resources.