2019 Ready by 21 National Meeting

Learn how to bring youth and family perspectives into your organization’s evaluation activities and experience applied approaches for identifying and clearly articulating guiding/research questions as they relate to youth readiness, designing focus group and interview questions for maximum impact, and creating intentional community-building focus groups. Takeaways include Youth Development Executives of King County Measurement Toolkit resources, tip sheets and worksheets to apply to your work, and experiencing creative focus group strategies/activities that can be adapted to address your own guiding questions as they relate to youth readiness. The applied approaches in the workshop and takeaways can all be applied to a broader context of system, organizational or program evaluation questions.

Ohio Youth-Led Programs contend that youth truly are smarter than adults in the matters that affect them. Youth Led Programs empower youth to influence the social and political systems that affect their lives. Through this process youth develop critical skills necessary to engage in strategic planning, and are perceived not as youth at risk, but youth at promise. In this workshop, participants will learn how Ohio’s model and Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) produced broad-based environmental change in two widely different demographics: rural Geauga County and urban Columbus, Ohio.

Presentation Links:
Cross-cultural settings - https://youtu.be/cZJdd6tnqRM
What would good look like - https://vimeo.com/330998742/7db14a3956

Building relationships has been at the heart of youth development, education and family engagement for decades. Yet it easily gets pushed aside to focus on more tangible tasks. Search Institute’s Developmental Relationships Framework provides a tool to help youth development programs, educators and family engagement professionals be more intentional in building relationships. This workshop will introduce the framework, then highlight tools and examples of how the framework is being brought to life, particularly through community partnerships.

How can we strengthen youth leadership through civic engagement? In the fall of 2018, the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development (DYCD) convened a Youth Leadership Workgroup to explore this question and identify strategies for strengthening youth leadership and civic engagement practices across its network of funded programs. As part of its efforts, the workgroup developed a common definition for civic engagement as well as a set of recommendations to help guide civic engagement programming. Participants in this presentation will gain a better understanding of civic engagement and its connections to skill-building and learn about strategies and resources for promoting civic engagement in youth-serving programs. This presentation will also showcase DYCD’s process for developing its approach to civic engagement and offer practical tools and ideas for replicating this work.

PRESENTATION LINK: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IEC8KI5fiankN1PhsPQHe-n4TnUvCZ6u/view