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Positive Youth Development

Resource: Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Youth Engagement Guidance

This resource guides administrators and prevention professionals on how to appropriately engage youth in government-sponsored events and meetings. 

SAMHSA’s Guidance — Strategies, Tools, and Tips for Supportive and Meaningful Youth Engagement in Federal Government-Sponsored Meetings and Events

This guidance provides federal staff and contractors with strategies, tools, and tips to support youth engagement in government-sponsored events and meetings.

A Positive Youth Development Research Agenda

The IWGYP recognizes the importance of PYD and created a national Research Agenda on PYD that describes the key research domains and questions that could benefit from future research.

The Power of the Adolescent Brain: A TAG Talk

This video uses research to shine a light on adolescent brain development.

Resource: YouthPower – What Works

This website promotes a Positive Youth Development approach to empower young people to become agents of their own development. 

Resource: SAMHSA’S Youth Engagement Guidance

This resource includes information and tools that can help federal staff and contractors appropriately engage youth before, during, and after government-sponsored events and meetings.

Resource: Top 10 Tips for Engaging with Young People

This guide advises service providers and others how to engage successfully with youth, using specific examples to illustrate effective (and ineffective) communication. 

The Crisis of Connection for Adolescent Boys: A TAG Talk

This video discusses the crisis of connection, its impact on the health and well-being of adolescent boys, and the implications for their work with teens.

YE4C Responds to Current Events Affecting Youth

To help youth effectively address the issues of the day, IWGYP has updated the YE4C homepage by adding a Current Events page to give priority focus the best federal resources that are timely and responsive to the issues that are top-of-mind to youth today.

Recent Events: AfAmWomenLead Initiative

This blog post describes the African American Women Lead (AfAmWomenLead) Initiative, established by the White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for African Americans to support the development of Black women and girls. 
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