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This research, Qualities that Attract Urban Youth to After-Shool Settings and Promote Continued Particpation conducted by Strobel, Kirshner, O’Donoghue and McLaughlin, identifies organizational strategies to attract and retain youth in community programs.   Opportunities for youth voice, leadership, and respectful adult relationships are critical.

Being Y-AP Savvy is an informational and training resource for groups who want to adopt the fundamental principles and practices of youth-adult partnership. Y-AP Savvy brings together contemporary research and practitioner wisdom.  It provides tools for groups – youth and adults – to discover their collective expertise and insight. It provides research, recommendations  and training […]

In “Adult Support of Activism” O’Donoghue and Stroebel (2007) examine the link between Y-AP and youth activism. They find that youth benefit most strongly when adults share power, build egalitarian relationships, and collaborate with the youth in actions for the common good. The authors identify challenges to adults in breaking out of conventional patterns of […]

The National League of Cities (NLC) Institute for Youth, Education, and Families (YEF Institute) created a framework to support cities as they work to promote youth civic engagement. Through a year-long process of research, interviews and dialogue with city leaders, the YEF Institute has brought together the strongest theory and the best practices of localities […]

This article answers the question:  “What are the fundamental strategies that organizations can take to ensure that youth-adult partnerships are sustained over time?” This article, Strategies for Sustaining Quality Youth-Adult Partnerships in Organizational Decision Making: Multiple Perspectives summarizes lessons learned from youth in governance, youth commissions and organizational improvement efforts, and youth organizing.  What we […]

This short article, Understanding Innovation, for practitioners provides an introduction to the adoption of innovative practices.  It identifies three management strategies and eight leverage points.. The article recommends these goals and leverage points as central to starting the process of change.  The management strategies are: Maintain stakeholder attention on purpose and outcome. Translate ideas into […]