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Guidelines for Healthy Food and Beverages for Adolescent Health Programs

ACT for Youth

2011/2015/2021

Developed for youth-serving program providers funded by the NYS Department of Health, this manual offers guidelines, tips, and recipes for providing delicious, healthy food in program settings.

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program planning, obesity, tools, eating

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.

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

Creating Inclusive Program Environments for Youth with Different Abilities

Jutta Dotterweich

2020

This curriculum offers strategies and resources to make program settings more inclusive for youth with learning disabilities, ADHD, autism, or trauma. For slides, companion presentations, and handouts, visit the training web page.

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inclusion, youth engagement, program planning, youth work professionals

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

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

Inquiry-based Instruction: Engaging Youth in Deeper Thinking

Practice Matters

Beth Mastro

2017

How can educators set the stage for critical thinking? Inquiry-based instruction offers an approach that goes beyond simply conveying information.

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program planning, facilitation, youth engagement

Best Practices for Technical Assistance: What Does the Evidence Tell Us?

Research Facts and Findings

Mary Maley

2016

The quality of youth programming depends on a well-trained, well-supported staff. In this article, Mary Maley describes what we know about best practices for technical assistance.

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program planning, youth work professionals

Encouraging Growth Mindsets

Practice Matters

Kristen Elmore

2016

Growth mindsets support learning, while fixed mindsets can make us reluctant to challenge ourselves. How can youth work professionals encourage growth mindsets among adolescents?

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program planning, adolescent development

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