Assets Coming Together (ACT) for Youth
ACT for Youth aims to strengthen community partnerships that promote positive youth development and prevent risky and unhealthy behaviors among young people. A Youth Voice Study looks at agencies in New York State that have made deliberate attempts to empower young people or involve them in the decision-making apparatus of their programs.
http://www.human.cornell.edu/ACTforyouth/
Activism 2000 Project
This clearinghouse provides information, tools, and resources for maximum participation of young people in communities, businesses, and governments. It includes an intergenerational advocacy toolkit and other books and videos that highlight youth infusion in decision-making roles.
http://www.youthactivism.com/
Advocates for Youth
Advocates for Youth is dedicated to creating programs and advocating for policies that help young people make informed and responsible decisions about their reproductive and sexual health. They provide information, training, and strategic assistance to youth-serving organizations, policy makers, youth activists, and the media in the United States and the developing world.
http://www.advocatesforyouth.org
American Youth Policy Forum
The American Youth Policy Forum is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, professional development organization providing learning opportunities for policymakers on youth policy issues at the national, state, and local level.
http://www.aypf.org/
At the Table: Youth Voices in Decision Making
A clearinghouse of information on youth participation, engagement and empowerment. A variety of tools, documents, research, and links are available, as well as profiles of successful youth-adult partnerships and youth-serving organizations.
http://www.atthetable.org
Canadian Health Network
Provides articles on youth participation for improvement of health.
http://www.canadian-health-network.ca/html/newnotable/apr1_2001e.html
The Carnegie Young People Initiative
This organization promotes young people's participation in decision-making. It provides reports from a variety of countries on youth participation in public decision-making.
http://www.carnegie-youth.org.uk/index-5.html
Center for Youth as Resources
This center provides a model for groups that want to involve young people integrally. A manual and other training opportunities are available to help young people become resources in their community.
http://www.cyar.org/
Children, Youth, and Families Education and Research Network (CYFERNet)
At the CYFERNet site, type "youth participation" in the search box to find useful resources.
Community Partnerships with Youth
This is a national U.S. training and resource development organization dedicated to promoting active citizenship through youth and adult partnerships.
http://www.cpyinc.org/
Convention on the Rights of the Child
As a part of UNICEF's website, this page describes CRC and what it means to young people.
http://www.unicef.org/crc/crc.htm
Edinburgh Youth Social Inclusion Partnership
This organization helps to promote inclusion of young people. The website provides documents of their best practices and lessons learned.
http://www.youthinclusion.org/index.php#
Forum for Youth Investment
The Forum for Youth Investment is dedicated to increasing the quality and quantity of youth investment and youth involvement in areas such as planning, research, advocacy, and policy development. It has many documents and materials including, Youth Participation, A Concept Paper, written in 1975 by the National Commission on Resources for Youth.
http://www.forumforyouthinvestment.org
Free Child
This comprehensive website provides resources for social change by and for young people. It offers an excellent bibliography of youth involvement resources.
http://www.freechild.org
The Global Program on Youth
This website through University of Michigan brings together a broad-based group of scholars, policy makers, and service providers who are working together to address critical and timely issues related to children and youth. You can find projects on youth as community builders, publications, and related articles.
http://gpy.ssw.umich.edu/index.html
The Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development
The Innovation Center seeks, tests, and promotes innovative concepts and practices, providing cutting edge tools for youth workers in diverse settings. Some of the tools that the Innovation center provides is a Youth/Adult Partnership training curriculum and a toolkit, Building Community: A Tool Kit for Youth and Adults in Charting Assets and Creating Change.
http://www.theinnovationcenter.org
Institute for Youth Development
The Institute for Youth Development (IYD) is a preeminent resource for parents, youth workers, teachers, coaches, policy makers, and media professionals who are interested in learning how adults can effectively help youth make healthy lifestyle choices.
http://www.youthdevelopment.org/default.asp
International Youth Foundation
IYF works with hundreds of companies, foundations, and civil society organizations to strengthen and "scale up" existing programs that are making a positive and lasting difference in young lives. The website provides background on the projects, as well as numerous documents on young people including youth livelihood, youth participation and youth development.
http://www.iyfnet.org
National 4-H Council
The National 4-H Council works to build a world in which youth and adults learn, grow, and work together as catalysts for positive change. The Council works with various other organizations on youth-related development activities, such as Youth-Adult Partnerships.
http://www.fourhcouncil.edu
National Youth Development Information Center
Provides information and resources on evaluation, research, policy, and programming related to youth development.
http://www.nydic.org/nydic/
New Designs for Youth Development
This journal provides information, articles, and experiences on youth and community development. Many articles can be accessed online.
http://www.cydjournal.org/NewDesigns/ND_99Sum/index.html
Youth Action Net
Developed by International Youth Foundation with a task force of youth, this website aims to provide a virtual space where young people can share lessons, stories, information, and advice on how to lead effective change. It is a space where youth can get up-to-date information, resources, and tools to strengthen their work.
http://www.youthactionnet.org/
The Youth Coalition
Formed during ICPD+5, this international coalition of young people is working together in the promotion of sexual and reproductive rights.
http://www.youthcoalition.org
Youth Development Foundation
The Youth Development Foundation (YDF) is a non profit, non partisan national youth organization encouraging and helping young people to meet the challenges of adolescence and adulthood through a coordinated, progressive, and positive series of activities and experiences.
http://www.youth.org.pk
Youth Leadership Institute
Youth Leadership Institute (YLI) operates in partnership with young people and the systems that sustain them to build communities that value, honor, and support youth. This website provides information on their various programs, as well as documents on youth as leaders, activists, and philanthropists.
http://www.yli.org
YouthVoice.Net
Through Indiana University, this website is designed as a tool for youth to use to inform government of their views on issues and to advocate for policies.
http://www.indiana.edu/~ythvoice/
