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Youth Development

How We Can Help

NCWRCYD staff can work with states and tribes to develop strategies for effectively partnering with youth and engaging youth in service delivery.

Working with Youth

The NCWRCYD values the unique strengths, needs and resilience of adolescents, and challenges agencies to do the same. The NCWRCYD is available to assist states and tribes to incorporate positive youth development/involvement approaches into all areas of programs and services. The NCWRCYD's work with youth focuses on:

  • Understanding and working to support youth in articulating their concerns,

  • Providing a forum for youth at national, regional, and state levels, and

  • Increasing their capacity to work in partnership with states and tribes.

Technical Assistance and Training

To create systemic change, technical assistance (TA) must be provided prior to and concurrent with training activities. TA sessions should include those administrative staff ultimately responsible for the managing the change that is needed.

Technical assistance activities for administration and other key staff can include:

  • Facilitation of work groups and committees

  • Strategic planning sessions (initial and on-going)

  • Action planning sessions

The NCWRCYD offers a variety of trainings that focus on both organizational and skill development levels. The Center can modify training to meet an organization’s needs in any of the following areas:

Organizational Development

  • Positive Youth Development

  • Youth/Adult Partnership Building

  • Youth Advisory Boards

  • Permanency Planning

  • Cultural Diversity

  • Collaboration

Skill Development

  • Strength-Based Assessment and Case Planning

  • Ethnographic Interviewing

  • Conflict Resolution

  • Family Group Decision Making

  • Youth Leadership Development

  • Life Skills Assessment and Transition Planning

  • Life Skills Instruction Preparation

  • Permanency Planning for Adolescents

  • Permanency and Concurrent Planning

  • Working with Native American Youth

  • Preparing Youth for Transition

  • Foster and Adoptive Parent Training

  • Managing Aggressive Behavior

  • Residential Child Care Programming

  • Working with Runaway and Homeless Youth

  • Youth Engagement

  • Substance Abuse

  • Pregnant and Parenting Teens