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. Tai Richardson is
the facilitator for the Spring 2011 course.
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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 $195 per participant for the seven-session course. Partial scholarships may be available. For more information, contact Keeley Forrestel at 203-789-7645, ext. 137.
Location
Classes are held at various locations in Connecticut. The Fall 2011 course will be held at Burroughs Community Center, 2470 Fairfield Avenue, Bridgeport, CT.
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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: Keeley Forrestel
389 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Confirmation of registration will be sent upon receipt of payment or if other arrangements are made.