November is National Adoption Month (NAM). NAM seeks to increase national awareness of adoption issues, bring attention to the need for adoptive families for teens in the foster care system, and emphasize the value of youth engagement. This year's theme, "Empowering Youth: Finding Points of Connection," emphasizes professionals' important role ...

Resource: A Tool for Youth Engagement and Empowerment

This tool offers resources to help young people better understand the different aspects of youth engagement and empowerment to advocate for themselves and their goals more effectively within the child welfare system. The strategies offered throughout this resource are informed by lived experience experts. Learn more. ...

Resource: Youth Advisory Councils

This webpage provides a detailed overview of Youth Advisory Councils (YACs). It describes the role YACs play in improving the schools and communities they serve, discusses how they can use data to make decisions and create action plans, and outlines the structure of a YAC. Learn more.

Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers Resource Center

The Innovative Technology Experiences for Students and Teachers (ITEST) program is an applied research and development program that seeks to actualize a diverse future STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) and ICT (information and communication technologies) workforce that is prepared to meet pressing local, societal, and global challenges. Because STEM ...

Resource: Self-Regulation and Toxic Stress Series

This webpage contains materials from OPRE’s “Self-Regulation and Toxic Stress” series. This series communicates the potential of a self-regulation framework for strengthening prevention programs and human services. The webpage features reports, briefs, infographics, tip sheets, and additional resources. Learn more. ...

Resource: Co-regulation: What It Is and Why it Matters Video

This animated video offers those who work with, coach, teach, or care for adolescents a brief introduction to co-regulation support rooted in evidence-informed strategies to foster self-regulation in youth. From their middle school years through young adulthood, youth need trusted adults to help them build self-regulation. Learn more and watch. ...

FY 2024 Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Program Organizational Components

The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) announces an open competition for a cooperative agreement to manage the FY 2024 Organizational Components of the Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) program. The FLEX program advances the U.S. foreign policy goals of engaging youth populations and building civil society by providing in-person, ...

Webinar: Participatory Systems Change for Equity: Centering Community Wisdom and Collective Action to Transform Child-, Youth-, and Family-Serving Systems

Date: September 27, 2023, 1:00–2:00 pm ET This webinar will discuss the Participatory Systems Change for Equity framework, which is an approach to systems transformation that centers the expertise of those most impacted by child-, youth-, and family-serving systems to understand and interrupt inequitable system conditions. This session will review how ...

Resource: Responding to the Current Youth Mental Health Crisis and Preventing the Next One

This brief summarizes the topics addressed in a workshop about incorporating mental health prevention and promotion strategies into systems and programs for children and youth support. Learn more.

About the Program

The concept for Y2CONNECT was originally funded through a 2011 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) grant that focused on training clinicians and non-clinical staff on the importance of engaging young men in sexual health care using the Project Connect model.9 In 2016, after CDC grant funding for the ...

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