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Resources are available to support community educational programs for at-risk children, youth, and families and are based on locally identified needs, and soundly grounded in research. The resources also help local projects to integrate programming into ongoing Extension programs for children, youth, and families—ensuring that at-risk, low-income children, youth, and families continue to be part of Extension and 4-H programs and have access to resources and educational opportunities.

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Assessing Health Behaviors to Impact Program Quality, Policies, and Funding

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Video
Data is a powerful tool that can be used to guide program improvement, educate stakeholders, inform decision makers, and motivate funders. This webinar will: - Highlight online sources of children’s health data; - Share resources for promoting good nutrition, physical activity, sleep, and limited screen time; - Explain tools offered by the CYFAR PDTA Center to assess children’s health behaviors and deliver impactful education and outreach; and - Demonstrate how to use health statistics to influence local policies and make a case for funding.
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Laura Palmer and Terri Rudy

Tying Your Program Data to Resiliency

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Video
This webinar explores how program data can be effectively communicated to stakeholders. The content includes: an overview of the Social Development Strategy and how positive youth, family, and community development is influenced by the promotion of protective factors a summary of the eight C’s in the research literature that foster resiliency (Caring, Character, Control, Coping, Connection, Competence, Confidence, and Contribution) the history and importance of data collection for CYFAR Sustainable Community Projects strategies for framing Common Measures and Core Competency data when...
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Authors

Ann Michelle Daniels, Ph.D.

Volunteer Development and Engagement: Leveraging Volunteers to Grow and Sustain Your Program

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Video
This webinar will explore how to balance volunteer management and development to effectively achieve the mission of your organization. The content will include: • Considerations when tailoring your volunteer delivery system • Key concepts to help position your organization to empower and fully utilize volunteers • Strategies to engage volunteers and aid in sustaining volunteer commitment • Targeting potential partners as a source for skilled volunteers
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Authors

Shane Potter

Engaging Youth in Their Communities: How Adults Can Promote Social Responsibility and Civic Action

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Video
Participants learned: (a) Why social responsibility (commitment to others and the greater good) and civic action (e.g., volunteering, community connections) are critical aspects of child and adolescent development; (b) Malleable features of youth-adult relationships and program settings that nurture social responsibility values and civic action; and (c) Concrete activities and practices for leveraging youth-adult relationships to deepen youth’s community connections, voice, and social and civic commitment.
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Authors

Amy Syvertsen, Ph.D.

2017 CYFAR Annual Report

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Research Report
The 2017 CYFAR Annual Report provides an overview of the accomplishments of the Children, Youth, and Families At-Risk community-based programs.
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Authors

USDA - NIFA

Assessing Health Behaviors to Impact Program Quality, Policies, and Funding

Type
Video
Data is a powerful tool that can be used to guide program improvement, educate stakeholders, inform decision makers, and motivate funders. This webinar accomplished the following: - Highlighted online sources of children’s health data; - Shared resources for promoting good nutrition, physical activity, sleep, and limited screen time; - Explained tools offered by the CYFAR PDTA Center to assess children’s health behaviors and deliver impactful education and outreach; and - Demonstrated how to use health statistics to influence local policies and make a case for funding.
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Authors

Laura Palmer and Terri Rudy

Sustainability More than a Bake Sale

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Video
This webinar focuses on a logic model for sustainability adapted from work by Mary Ann Scheirer and James W. Dearing (2011). This model highlights the influences that inputs, general factors, the economic environment, and outcomes have on sustainability. In addition to fundraising, the webinar touches on communication strategies, partnerships, and monitoring practices that are at the heart of sustainability planning.
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Authors

Jane Todey, EdS

Team Nutrition Garden Resources

Team Nutrition provides a number of free materials that connect nutrition education to school and child care gardens. We also offer evidence-based curricula that educators can use to integrate garden-based nutrition education lessons into core educational subjects such as math, English language arts, and science. From small pots and container gardens to full garden plots, we have materials that can fit your needs and resources. Schools, summer sites, and child care (centers, homes, and sponsors) that participate in USDA’s Child Nutrition Programs may request free printed copies of many of...
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USDA

Successful Strategies in Engaging Vulnerable Youth and Families: Field Lessons

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Video
Dr. Deanna Wilkinson and Mr. Robert Franklin II shared their practitioner experiences of success and challenge working with diverse and underserved populations. Capitalizing on nearly four decades of academic research and practical implementation, both Dr. Wilkinson and Mr. Franklin delivered specific examples of their work, in different communities, developing and expanding resources dedicated to the advancement of peoples for whom access is a challenge.
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Dr. Deanna Wilkinson and Mr. Robert Franklin II

La Cultura Cura: Working within the Cultural Space of Latino Youth

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Video
Working with Latino youth is a growing opportunity across our nation. Latino populations can come from 33 different nations bringing to their communities a multitude of languages, traditions, and perspectives. But what does this mean for our youth development practice? Ms. Marcia Rincon-Gallardo and Albino Garcia will share the work that they do with Latino youth, highlighting the reclamation of authentic identity through spiritual healing, cultural, and gender approaches that engage and contribute to positive outcomes for youth.
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Marcia Rincon-Gallardo and Albino Garcia

Supporting Youth Who Identify as Members of LGBTQ+ Communities

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Video
This presentation will provide frontline staff and PI’s with the language & knowledge necessary to ensure positive & supportive environments that provide physical, mental, & emotional safety for youths who identify as members of LGBTQ+ communities. Session Objectives: 1. Discuss historical roots & positive & negative uses of language as it relates to LGBTQ+ communities. 2. Review current findings from research with individuals in LGBTQ+ communities 3. Present the differences between sex, gender identity, gender expression, & sexual orientation. 4. Review emerging best practices for inclusion...
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Authors

Michelle Krehbiel, PhD, Mark Mains, PhD, Kimberly Allen, PhD, Katherine Soule, PhD

Personal Readiness: It’s an Inside Job!

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Video
Personal Readiness: It’s an Inside Job! examines how the CYFAR Core Competencies Personal Readiness skills influence and inform our work with CYFAR audiences. The presenters will draw on their extensive experiences delivering CYFAR programs to highlight how improving these skills can help us become more effective educators and community-based program leaders. To get the most out of Personal Readiness: It’s an Inside Job!, we encourage you to watch "Animal School" (it’s just 5 minutes) on YouTube and begin thinking about how your personal biases and perspectives influence your work.
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Authors

June P. Mead, Ph.D., Karen DeBord, Ph.D., & Wally Goddard, Ph.D.

Engaging Communities: It’s all about relationships!

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Video
Engaging Communities: It’s all about relationships! examines how the CYFAR Core Competencies "Engaging with the Community" skills influence and inform our work with CYFAR audiences and vulnerable populations. Join us as we discuss the ways in which engaging in Peter Block’s 5 essential conversations with communities enhances belonging, ownership, and commitment. The presenters will draw on their experience working with diverse communities and facilitating appreciative conversations to showcase how improving these skills-can help us build stronger relationships with the community, thus becoming...
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Authors

Susan Scherffius Jakes, Ph.D. & Autumn Guin, M.S.

2016 CYFAR Evaluation Report

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Research Report
In 2017, the Children, Youth, and Families At-Risk Initiative (CYFAR) celebrated its 25th Anniversary. CYFAR provides funding for local Sustainable Community Projects (SCPs) that promote positive outcomes among vulnerable populations throughout the United States and Territories. CYFAR also funds the CYFAR Professional Development and Technical Assistance (CYFAR PDTA) Center, which provides professional development, technical assistance, and evaluation support for CYFAR SCPs. Evaluations of CYFAR SCPs began in 2010 as a pilot program, followed by a mandate that all SCPs collect common measures...
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CYFAR PDTA

LGBT Youth

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Video
The LGBT Youth webinar focuses on how to work with staff to create inclusive spaces and ensure inclusive attitudes and practices. In addition, the webinar discusses how to incorporate sexual orientation and gender identity attitudes in evaluation and measurements.
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Authors

Jenifer K. McGuire, PHD, MPH

Navigating the Path for a Successful CYFAR Site Visit

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Video
To make each CYFAR Site Visit count, grantees need to understand how to prepare and plan for each visit from their CYFAR Coach. This webinar will have taught you how to understand the purpose of the Site Visit, who should participate, and what the outcomes for each visit should include.
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Authors

Laura Palmer, Maria De Guzman

Childhood Obesity - What is it all about?

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Video
A webinar that attempts to answer questions about childhood obesity, including how it is measured and whether or not it can be prevented.
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Dr. Janet Kurzynske, Extension Specialist and Professor in the Department of Dietetics and Nutrition at the University of Kentucky

Managing Children’s Behavior: Practical Strategies and Ways to Cope

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Video
Dr. Cristin Hall, a licensed psychologist and school psychologist, describes the "what", the "why", and the "how" of managing behavior for children in a variety of contexts. By emphasizing clear expectations, simple strategies for focusing on increasing good behavior and minimizing not-so-good behavior, learners can expect to increase their understanding of good behavior management techniques. Dr. Hall describes the various ways in which children tend to have difficulty with meeting adult expectations and explains how development and the environment can shape our understanding of child...
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Dr. Cristin M. Hall

Nutrition Education and Promotion: The Role of CYFAR in Helping Families Make Healthier Eating and Lifestyle Choices

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Video
This webinar explores the relationship between poverty and obesity. The presenter discusses strategies to promote healthy habits in CYFAR youth and families as well as explores the resources available to CYFAR programs that can assist youth and families achieve a healthy lifestyle
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Authors

Laura Palmer, MS, RD, CYFAR Coach and Extension Specialist from Purdue University

2016 CYFAR Annual Report

Type
Research Report
The 2016 CYFAR Annual Report provides an overview of the accomplishments of the Children, Youth, and Families At-Risk community-based programs.
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Authors

USDA - NIFA

What Is a Logic Model

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Video
These models are a blueprint for what you’re doing as a program in order to evaluate if a goal was achieved and why. They can include needs, outcomes, results, indicators, activities, and resources, which should be aligned with both short term and long term goals of the program. Logic models also help provide a framework for everyone involved to help focus on results and get the desired outcome.
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Authors

Lydia Marek, PhD

Measuring Quality in Youth Development Programs

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Video
Program quality is not just outcomes but also a point of service quality, or what’s happening within interactions. Components of good program quality can include youth engagement, supportive relationships, critical thinking, and physical and emotional safety. All of these components can serve as intermediate developmental outcomes.
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Authors

Nicole Yohalem

CYFAR Evaluation

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Video
In this 50-minute webinar, Burgess Smith discusses essential details of CYFAR program evaluations. Topics include Using Survey Builder Understanding Common Measures Managing your CYFAR data online End-of-Year Reports Annual Reports REEport
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Burgess Smith