VOICES Offers Youth Development Workshop April 27, 2007

“…being problem-free is not being fully-prepared…one needs skills, knowledge, and a variety of other personal and social assets to function well during adolescence and adulthood…[this] more holistic view…is gaining credence in the world of policy and practice.”

— Eccles, Jaquelynne, and Jennifer Appleton Gootman, eds. Community Programs to Promote Youth Development. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2002

Think Nationally,
Act Locally
How can national research best inform
daily youth development practice?Friday, April 27, 2007
8:00 a.m. — 4:00 p.m.

Sentinel Building, Rillito-Sabino Room
330 Commerce Park Loop
(Grande and Congress area)

How can we best design and implement programs that promote positive youth development? What role should national research play? How can we learn from local colleagues? How can the local and national interact? Should they? And how can all this help us improve as practitioners, fundraisers, funders, leaders, and advocates?
Workshop instructors are Regina Kelly and Rachel K. Villarreal, Executive Director and Projects Director (respectively) at Tucson’s award-winning youth development agency, VOICES: Community Stories Past and Present.

What YOU will get from this workshop:

• Get familiar with “The Blue Book”—the current definitive meta-analysis of U.S. youth development research (Community Programs to Promote Youth Development)
• Learn more about the what, why, and how of building youth assets in the intellectual, emotional, and social domains
• Learn the critical ingredients of the youth programming environment
• Discuss and apply this research to your own local setting
• Learn about local practices that powerfully develop youth assets
• Increase your knowledge of the most effective resources and networks in the youth development field

Workshop take-aways include:

• a FREE copy of the “blue book”: Eccles, Jaquelynne, and Jennifer Appleton Gootman, eds. Community Programs to Promote Youth Development. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 2002
• Program planning checklists
• Program environment checklist
• A VOICES-vetted resource guide of the best recent youth development articles, listserves, digital newsletters, and publications
• Sample evaluation instruments

You will benefit from this workshop if you are:

• A youth development practitioner,
• A youth development manager/administrator,
• A youth development fundraiser/grant writer/development director,
• A youth development policy maker, or
• A youth development funder (private or public).

Breakfast and lunch provided. Priority registration will be given to youth-serving programs.
To register or for more information:

Contact Rachel Villarreal at VOICES at (520) 622-7458 x209 or rachel@voicesinc.org