Advancing Youth Development
Description
Goals
Course Instructors
Participant Selection
Cost
Directions
Registration
Description
Advancing Youth Development (AYD) is a nationally acclaimed course designed for front-line youth workers who interact with adolescents on a daily basis. The 30-hour course was based on curricula from the Center for Youth Development and Policy Research, Academy for Educational Development and the National Network for Runaway Youth.
Seven sessions cover the history of youth work, the youth development framework, fostering youth participation and leadership, culturally competent programming, program assessment, and professional competencies of youth workers:
- Session 1: The Youth Development Framework
- Session 2: Developmental Youth Outcomes (Supports and Opportunities)
- Session 3: Providing Developmentally Appropriate & Responsive Programs
- Session 4: Increasing our Ability to Develop Young People
- Session 5: Expanding Opportunities for Youth Participation
- Session 6: Program Planning & Assessing Program Outcomes
- Session 7: Professional Competencies of Youth Workers
Goals
AYD aims to help youth workers to:
- Gain familiarity with the youth development approach and use this approach to explore, share, and learn new strategies for working with young people.
- Strengthen their ability to communicate their ideas, expertise and experience to their constituencies: board members, families, co-workers, community leaders, and youth.
- Discuss practical strategies for integrating a youth development approach into their programs.
- Develop an informal peer network and become ongoing resources to each other.
Course Instructors
All AYD instructors are qualified YDTRC facilitators who have
completed the 30-hour AYD course and the intensive 3-day
Training for AYD Course Facilitators. Community-based youth workers who have completed the
30-hour course often help with selected sessions when the
course is in their geographic area.
The Winter 2010 course will be facilitated by Denise Page,
lead facilitator of AYD for more than a decade. She
served as a supervisor of the Anti-Crime Youth Council and
as a member of the White House Council on Youth and
Violence.
Participant Selection
Registration is open to staff members of youth-serving agencies, including public and private organizations, neighborhoods, community centers, or residential programs. The course is designed to benefit front-line youth workers, as well as all others who come in direct contact with or supervise people who work directly with young people. Participants will be selected from the initial registration list based upon the location and type of agency.
If you are interested in discussing opportunities for bringing the AYD course to your agency staff, please contact Deborah Stewart at 203-789-7645.
Cost
The fee is $175 per participant for the seven-session course. Partial scholarships may be available. For more information, For more information, contact LeShae Payton at 203-789-7645, ext. 147.
Location
Classes will be held at Families and Communities Together Resource Center, 154 Hempstead Street, New London, CT
Register now...
You may register for the course or request to be notified of the next course by completing and submitting the form below. If registering, please make checks payable to The Consultation Center, Inc., and mail to:
The Consultation Center
YDTRC
Attention LeShae Payton
389 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Confirmation of registration will be sent upon receipt of payment or if other arrangements are made.