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Positive Youth Development 101: A Curriculum for Youth Work Professionals

Jutta Dotterweich

2015/2021

This curriculum offers an orientation to the youth development approach for professionals new to the field of youth work. For slides, activities, and handouts, visit the PYD 101 page.

Additional Keywords

PYD 101, tools, youth engagement, community involvement, program planning

Building Developmental Relationships

Jutta Dotterweich

2019

In this Positive Youth Development Network webinar, Jutta Dotterweich explores research findings and resources that will help youth workers establish and maintain developmental relationships with young people.

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youth work professionals, webinars, program planning

Motivation and Goals

Kristen Elmore

2019

In this Positive Youth Development Network webinar, Kristen Elmore discusses motivational theories, characteristics and beliefs related to motivation, and how we can design contexts that support motivation.

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youth work professionals, webinars, adolescent development, program planning

Attention Please!

Jutta Dotterweich

2018

In this presentation to the Positive Youth Development Network in NYS, Jutta Dotterweich explored what research has to say about our ability to pay attention, and how youth workers can help young people focus.

Additional Keywords

youth work professionals, brain development, adolescent development, webinars, videos

Preparing for Youth Engagement

Practice Matters

Shepherd Zeldin, Jill Gurtner, and Brie Chapa

2018

In this timely article, the authors discuss youth voice, youth-adult partnership (Y-AP), and youth organizing, and provide a practical checklist to aid planning for Y-AP.

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positive youth development, tools

Strengthening Self-Regulation

Jutta Dotterweich

2018

In this Positive Youth Development Network webinar, Jutta Dotterweich introduces the co-regulation model and concrete strategies for helping youth strengthen self-regulation.

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youth work professionals, webinars, adolescent development, program planning, social and emotional learning, SEL

Fair Weather Ahead: Coping with Adolescent Stress

Janis Whitlock

2017

This webinar on stress in adolescence was presented to the Positive Youth Development Network in 2017.

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adolescent development

What Do Youth Workers Have to Know about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?

Jutta Dotterweich

2017

In this Positive Youth Development Network webinar, Jutta Dotterweich discusses implications of the ADA for youth programming.

Additional Keywords

youth work professionals, disability, accommodations, webinars, videos

Social and Emotional Learning

ACT for Youth Center of Excellence

2016

This video introduces social and emotional learning (SEL) and explains why SEL is relevant to practitioners in the field of positive youth development.

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program planning, videos

Principios del Desarrollo de Jóvenes

PYD Resources in Spanish

ACT for Youth Center of Excellence

2015

A Spanish language translation of the web page Principles of Youth Development.

Additional Keywords

positive youth development, en Español