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Family, Youth & Community Development

Advancing Youth Development

Advancing Youth Development (AYD) is a professional development program, for those who work with youth as well as program managers, administrators and funders. AYD helps individuals, programs and organizations that work with youth in a variety of settings to understand and apply a positive youth development approach. Broome County AYD trainings are facilitated by a team of local youth work professionals, affiliated with the NYS AYD Partnership, made up of the NYS Office of Children and Family Services, Cornell University Cooperative Extension, the Association of NYS Youth Bureaus, and the ACT for Youth Upstate Center of Excellence at Cornell University.

For more information, call NYS AYD Co-Director and Broome County AYD Lead Contact, Kay Telfer at CCE Broome County, (607) 584-5018, or go to the NYS AYD web site at www.nyayd.org.

Advancing Youth Development Training

 

The revised AYD training is 18 hours, highly interactive, and usually delivered in 3 full days, a week apart. It provides front line youth workers and program manager/supervisors with in-depth training, reflection and networking related to understanding and utilizing a positive youth development approach in a wide variety of settings. Training participants come from many organizations and fields, e.g. probation, foster care, schools, law enforcement, Boys & Girls Club, 4-H or church youth group leader, school age child care or residential/therapeutic facility staff.

Youth Development Basics Workshop

This 4-hour workshop introduces four main concepts from the positive youth development approach. This dynamic workshop is ideal for youth workers/volunteers who can not commit to the 18-hour AYD program, and managers and decision-makers in youth development organizations. Through group discussion, instruction, activities and handouts, participants understand the basics of a positive youth development approach, and how implementation of the approach benefits youth, the adults who work with them, and the programs/organizations as well.

Strengthening Organizations Through Youth Development

This 6-hour workshop, developed by the NYS AYD Partnership, is designed for teams from an organization made up of managers, administrators, board members, program staff and youth. The purpose is to help the organization become more effective in its youth development work.