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The Colorado Youth Development Team aims to enhance, unify and promote
positive youth development across Colorado. As a part of the team's
action plan, members developed the resources below so that others may
incorporate positive youth development strategies into their work.
Please use any and all of the resources. And, as always, please provide the
team with
feedback with how it can better support your positive youth
development efforts.
Positive Youth Development: Supporting Colorado Youth to Reach Their Full Potential This report provides results and recommendations from a statewide assessment of positive youth development across Colorado.
List of Colorado Youth Advisory Boards organized by county with contact information. Click here to add your youth advisory board to the list. Connect with positive youth development advocates across the state through
the Ning social networking site at
http://coloradoyouthdevelopment.ning.com
Positive Youth Development Process Evaluation This evaluation can support you in evaluating your organization or program's positive youth development approach and identify areas for improvement. Click here to learn more. Thriving At 25 Outcomes Evaluation Tool This tool will help you assess your program or community in terms of its
strengths and the behaviors and attributes we want young people to have.
Click here to learn more and request on-line access and support.
Getting Youth to the Table
PowerPoint Presentation
Youth-Adult Partnership Tool Catalog This is a criteria-based list of over 20 tools (mainly free!) that support organizations in partnering authentically with youth and young adults. The Positive Youth Development Process Evaluation Tool is designed to help organizations or programs evaluate their positive youth development approach. Each of the seven principles that Colorado has identified as being critical to positive youth development is examined, which include:
The survey is intended for program and organizational staff and is based off of the Colorado Youth Development Team's survey research in 2008. Reliability testing and factor analysis was conducted to refine the measures for greater ease and accuracy. Please click here to request a unique survey link for your program or organization. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's Epidemiology, Planning and Evaluation Unit will provide you with the results. The Thriving At 25 Outcomes Evaluation Tool is based on the Prevention Leadership Council's framework for children and youth and provides strengths-based measures for holistic development. The tool compliments needs assessments or risk behavior surveys to add the other half of what positive youth development aims for - the healthy development and full potential of all young people. The Thriving At 25 Framework is based on the Forum for Youth Investment's Ready by 21 Dashboard and contains five domains for healthy development. Colorado Youth Development Team's Research and Evaluation Committee - a team of academics, evaluators and youth-serving professionals - researched reliable, valid and positive measures that examine what we DO want to see young people think, feel and do. Click on each domain to preview the sub-domains that Colorado Youth Development Team's evaluation tool measures: Learning: Developing positive, basic and applied academic attitudes, skills and behaviors
Working: Developing positive vocational attitudes, skills and behaviors
Thriving: Developing physical, mental and emotional health attitudes, skills and behaviors
Connecting: Developing positive social and relationship attitudes, skills and behaviors
Contributing/Leading: Developing positive civic attitudes, skills and behavior
Click here to request a unique survey link for your program or community. Colorado Youth Development Team's Research and Evaluation Committee recommends to utilize all measures within the tool, as one of the goals is to capture the holistic development of our youth. However, the committee understands time constraints and will customize the tool to address the sub-domains you are most interested in examining. Click here to customize the Thriving At 25 Outcomes Evaluation Tool. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's Epidemiology, Planning and Evaluation Unit will provide the results. If you are interested in reviewing the empirical history for each of the measures and their overlap with the Youth Risk Behavior Survey and the Healthy Kids Colorado Survey, please click here.
Much thanks to the Colorado Youth Development Team Research and Evaluation Committee:
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