Arizona’s 21st CCLC understands the need for a quality program to consider the whole child. This includes: ensuring student safety, including Social Emotional Learning (SEL), youth's voice, connecting students to community, encouraging youth leadership and exploring new interests. Our awarded grantees have written into their plan specific objectives related to Positive Youth Development (YD). Included are resources that partners in the field have found helpful.
The Arizona 21st CCLC team has created a framework to assist program leaders and their community to better understand youth development policy, support, and examples of successful programs. (Click thumbnail for full Youth Development Frameworks)
ACT for Youth - Positive Youth Development 101- Curriculum offerings and handouts.
ACT for Youth - Principles of Youth Development and Research.
Arizona Center for Afterschool - Promotes high quality expanded learning opportunities to support the out-of-school time community
Arizona Center for Afterschool Excellence Quality Standards - best practices by Arizona’s out-of-school time statewide stakeholders
Arizona Department of Education - Title IV-A - The purpose of the Title IV-A Student Support and Academic Enrichment (SSAE) grant is to improve students’ academic achievement by increasing the capacity of States, local educational agencies, schools, and local communities to provide all students with access to a well-rounded education, improve school conditions for student learning, and improve the use of technology in order to improve the academic achievement and digital literacy of all students. (ESSA Sec.4101)
What Works Clearinghouse - The What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) reviews the existing research on different programs, products, practices, and policies in education. Our goal is to provide educators with the information they need to make evidence-based decisions. We focus on the results from high-quality research to answer the question “What works in education?
EMpower Youth Development Tools - tools['] on important and challenging issues designed to support youth development.
Mentoring Fact Sheet- putting youth development principles to work in mentoring program.
You for Youth - A free professional learning, technical assistance and resources
Youth.Gov - U.S. government website is designed to strengthen effective youth programs
Youth Service America - A resource center partnering with organizations committed to increasing volunteer opportunities for youth
CASEL: Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning - Evidence-based social and emotional learning (SEL) for preschool through high school
Developmental Assets - Developmental Assets Profile (DAP), providing organizations, schools, and coalitions with insights into the internal strengths and external supports that influence youths’ success in school and in life
Search Institute Resources - bridges research and practice to support today’s youth
SEL (Social & Emotional Learning)to the CORE- Building from foundational youth development to support social and emotional learning.
SEL (Social & Emotional Learning) Toolkit (pdf) from the University of Minnesota. Social and emotional learning in practice.
Positive Youth Development 101- Curriculum offerings and handouts
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