Youth Development Resources
Organizational Support
The Search Institute
The Search Institute is an independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide leadership,
knowledge, and resources to promote healthy children, youth, and communities. The Institute promotes the 40 developmental assets
framework to promote their efforts. To accomplish this mission, the institute generates and communicates new knowledge, and brings
together community, state, and national leaders.
Forum for Youth Investment
The Forum for Youth Investment (the other Forum) is dedicated to increasing
the quality and quantity of youth investment and youth involvement by promoting a "big picture" approach to planning, research,
advocacy and policy development. This Web site contains papers, articles, editorials, written and PowerPoint presentations,
and other tools that have been created by Forum staff and consultants.
Many of these documents may be downloaded (often as PDF files).
National Youth Development Information Center
This site provides career options and job listings, publications on the field, evaluation and research information,
additional links to further develop your program, policy issues and grant leads.
Finding Resources to Support Rural Out-Of-School Time Initiatives
This electronic document (in PDF format) explores strategy on rural program support. It provides useful discussion points and
ideas to create sustainability in essential rural programs.
The Academy for Educational Development
This site profiles a host of publications about the field of youth development and the staffing of that process.
'the back door' homeless youth model
'the back door' is not just about getting young people off the street. It is designed as an environment which seeks to discover,
understand and communicate the factors which indicate the need for social change in our community.
National 4-H Council Programs
The National 4-H Council provides grants, establishes programs/initiatives, designs and publishes curriculum and
reference materials, and creates linkages fostering innovation and shared learning to advance the 4-H youth development movement, building a world in which
youth and adults learn, grow, and work together as catalysts for positive change.
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