Social, Emotional and Behavioral Health
Collaborative Partnership for Excellence in Youth Development
Collaborative Partnership for Excellence in Youth Development
The call is for the establishment of a collaborative system that establishes a common agenda, and facilitates planning, capacity-building, resource-sharing and maximization, oversight and accountability.
From: Collaborative Partnership for Excellence in Youth Development
CAPAZ Positive Youth Development Initiative
El Pueblo
The purpose is to develop agency-wide programming that truly functions within a PYD framework with an emphasis on: (1) Integrating PYD principles into the leadership, structure and vision of the agency as a whole and (2) Creating a holistic structure in which existing youth programs are incorporated within a comprehensive framework that moves beyond particular “issues” and addresses components of PYD across all spheres.
From: El Pueblo
Project CATCH (Community Action Targeting Children who are Homeless)
The Salvation Army of Wake County
Implement a system of care for homeless families with children and youth residing in any one of nine Wake County homeless service programs.
From: The Salvation Army of Wake County
Developing a Therapeutic Supervised Visitation Program
Triangle Family Services
[Build on the existing supervised visitation program to] develop a therapeutic supervised visitation program.
From: Triangle Family Services
Integrating a Positive Youth Development (PYD) Approach
Girl Scouts – North Carolina Coastal Pines
Integrating a positive youth development approach through comprehensive evaluation and outcomes measurement
From: Girl Scouts – North Carolina Coastal Pines
Positive Youth Development (PYD) Integration
Haven House Services
Assess current PYD practices, plan purposefully and strategically to more comprehensively integrate PYD tenets, and implement a staff-level change of more intentional PYD-based programming based on best practices.
From: Haven House Services
Positive Youth Development (PYD) Organizational Assessment
Wake Teen Medical Services
Determine best practice standards throughout its organization to ensure that youth can be healthy and successful, youth are engaged in activities that contribute to life skills and reinforce community-mindedness, youth grow comfortable as citizens in a participatory democracy, and adults within Wake Teen view youth positively.
From: Wake Teen Medical Services
Action Now: Engaging Youth in Policy Change
YES will apply its Youth Empowerment Model throughout Wake County to increase opportunities for young people to engage and participate in meaningful work, such as policy advocacy on issues important to them. YES will address these needs at the individual, organizational and community-wide levels.
From: Youth Empowered Solutions (YES!)
Youth Leaders in Action Academy*
Wake County 4-H Youth Development
Develop education, training and employment programs aimed at preventing gang involvement among youth in targeted communities and neighborhoods.
From: Wake County 4-H Youth Development
Need/Purpose: Local law enforcement estimates more than 2,000 gang members in Wake County, typically males between 13 and mid-twenties. Many at risk of gang involvement do not have access to programs that could prevent gang involvement and are unserved or underserved by local health agencies.
Teens Taking Action*
Planned Parenthood
Educate at-risk youth about teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections by adding a peer-to-peer educational outreach program.
From: Planned Parenthood Health Systems
Purpose: Educate at risk youth about teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections by adding "Teens Taking Action" to educational outreach offered in Wake County.
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