Program Model: SCP Cluster Citizenship

Selected Citizenship Resources:

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Activities

Learning to Give: Teaching Materials and Resources
http://www.learningtogive.org/materials/
This site contains lesson plans and teaching materials for educating children about giving and philanthropy.

Guide to Cooperative Games for Social Change
http://www.freechild.org/gamesguide.htm
This resource from The Freechild Project provides descriptions of youth activities.

Adults as Allies
http://www.wkkf.org/pubs/YouthED/Pub564.pdf
This workbook is designed for adults seeking to partner with youth to promote social change and includes many examples of promising programs and initiatives, as well as suggestions, strategies, and resources for program development.

Collaboration

Community Collaboration Tool
http://cals-cf.calsnet.arizona.edu/fcs/bpy/content.cfm?content=community_collab
This is a customizable PowerPoint tool to help bring people together about issues that are important for the health, education and well-being of young people.

Community Guide to Helping America's Youth
http://guide.helpingamericasyouth.gov/
Guide helps communities build partnerships, assess their needs and resources, and select from program designs that could be replicated in their community. It walks community groups through the steps necessary for building strong supports for youth.

Curriculum

Creating Youth/Adult Partnerships
http://www.theinnovationcenter.org/r_ya_partners.asp
Offers a step-by-step tools to prepare youth and adults to work as a team. Designed with even the most novice trainer in mind, this 6 - 8 hour curriculum leads youth and adults through activities to challenge preconceptions, explore benefits, assess readiness and build trust to strengthen their work in partnership.

FireStarter Youth Power Curriculum
http://freechild.org/Firestarter/
Curriculum is designed to promote youth leadership development through community engagement. It includes activities to build community awareness, teamwork, and action planning skills.

Evaluation

Democratic Evaluation
http://www.hfrp.org/evaluation/the-evaluation-exchange/issue-archive/democratic-evaluation
This issue of The Evaluation Exchange periodical focuses on democratic evaluation. At the forefront of the discussion are equity and inclusion in the evaluation of programs for children, families, and communities, as well as evaluation to promote public accountability and transparency.

Youth Involvement in Evaluation and Research
http://www.hfrp.org/publications-resources/browse-our-publications/youth-involvement-in-evaluation-research
This brief draws on information collected from focus group interviews with representatives of 14 programs that are involving youth in their evaluation and research efforts. It examines the elements of successful youth involved research projects and offers short profiles of the 14 organizations included in the study.

Featured Web Sites

Innovation Center for Community & Youth Development: Youth Governance and Involvement
http://www.theinnovationcenter.org/r_youth_dec.asp
The Innovation Center website includes resources for involving youth in organizational and community decision making, including training curricula, literature, and links to additional Web-based information.

Building Partnerships for Youth
http://ag.arizona.edu/fcs/bpy/
This website from the National 4H Council contains numerous youth development resources.

Meaningful Student Involvement Resource Guide
http://www.soundout.org/MSIResources.pdf
This guide provides descriptions of many significant publications, organizations, toolkits, websites and organizations.

Youth Acts, Community Impacts: Stories of Youth Engagement with Real Results
http://www.forumfyi.org/files/Youth%20Acts%20Community%20Impacts.pdf
This publication from the Forum for Youth Investment offers eight case studies to document efforts in the United States and around the world, all connecting the dots between youth action and meaningful community change.

National 4-H Council
http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/
National 4-H Council's mission is to advance the 4-H youth development movement to build a world in which youth and adults learn, grow, and work together as catalysts for positive change. Council partners with 4-H at all levels: national, state and local.

Arsalyn
http://www.arsalyn.org/
A nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that promotes youth civic and political engagement.

Take an Active Role with Adults
http://cals-cf.calsnet.arizona.edu/fcs/bpy/content.cfm?content=taking_active_role
This resource from Building Partnerships for Youth provides ideas for what youth professionals can do to contribute to youth taking an active role with adults.

Tips for Working With Teens as Partners
http://ucce.ucdavis.edu/files/filelibrary/5180/16055.doc
This two-page tip sheet provides information on how to successfully work with teenagers as a program resource. It includes a brief overview of the gifts teenagers can bring to programs, and pointers on recruiting and coaching teenagers.

Youth-Adult Partnerships
http://cals-cf.calsnet.arizona.edu/fcs/bpy/content.cfm?content=YAPartners
This fact sheet from Building Partnerships for Youth describes youth-adult partnerships and discusses components needed for successful youth-adult partnerships.

Sustainability

Financing and Sustainability Strategies
http://www.financeproject.org/all_pubs.cfm?cat=6&p=1
This collection of resource links provides numerous guides and strategies related to the funding and the sustainability of children, youth and family services.

4-H Involvement with CYFAR NCP Projects
http://ag.arizona.edu/fcs/cyfernet/evaluation/4-H%20summary%20NCP.pdf
This summary reports on the sustainability of the 14 New Communities Programs one and two years after their initial funding ended and the involvement of these sustained NCP projects with 4-H.

Measuring Community Success and Sustainability
http://www.ncrcrd.iastate.edu/Community_Success/entry.html
An interactive workbook that describes how to measure impacts of economic and community development processes that enhance rural community sustainability.

Technology

Newz Crew
http://newzcrew.org/webx
A new youth-led Web site that combines a unique, interactive approach to public policy education, youth leadership and online learning with stories and background reports, to stimulate rich online dialogues involving youth in the United States and around the world.

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