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Youth Adult Partnership (SLCPYD)

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Youth Adult Partnership

Youth Adult Partnership, State Local Collaborative Positive Youth Development (SLCPYD), is a partnership that works together towards positive youth development and positive neighborhood change in the Sector 8 Community.

Current participants:

  • Local Sector 8 youth adult partnerships participating in the Youth As Resources process
  • Youth As Resources
  • Youth Voice, One Vision City/County Youth Council
  • Community Place of Greater Rochester
  • NorthEast Area Development (NEAD)
  • Neighbors Building Neighborhoods (NBN)
  • City of Rochester Department of Recreation and Youth Services 
  • Rochester-Monroe County Youth Bureau
  • New York State Office of Children and Family Services
  • Family and Youth Services Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

For more information or to become involved in the Youth Adult Partnership, please call Nate Brown at the Community Place of Greater Rochester at 585 327-7200 x-115 or contact the Rochester-Monroe County Youth Bureau at 585 753-6455.

What Is Community Youth Development?

Young people grow up in communities as well as in families, programs, and schools.

Community Youth Development is working in partnership with young people to strengthen their ties to community—family, neighborhood, school, friends—and working with communities to value and support youth.

The Positive Youth Development approach is not a new concept.

Experts on youth long ago identified four factors that allow most young people to stay on the right track:

  • A sense of competence: being able to do something well
  • A sense of usefulness: having something to contribute
  • A sense of belonging: being part of a group or a community
  • A sense of power: having control over one’s future

Young people, therefore, benefit from having opportunities to grow and develop in different aspects of their lives; intellectually, socially, psychologically, physically, and morally.

When communities learn to value and meaningfully involve youth, it is not only the young people who benefit.

When young people are actively engaged in the context of the broader community, they become valuable contributors to the quality of community life. A Positive Youth Development approach, therefore, emphasizes youth as resources, both for enhancing the quality of community life today and for building strong communities in the future.

Youth Adult Partnership Activities:

Steering Committee: Community Partners Conversation and Visioning

Since March of 2006, the Youth/Adult Partnership has been holding meetings to brainstorm and create a vision to achieve neighborhood change in the Sector 8 area of the City of Rochester. The Sector 8 Neighborhoods include: Beechwood, Browncroft, Culver/Winton, Homestead Heights, and the Northland-Lyceum areas. 
 
The partnership has been working very hard and has selected two focus areas:
  • Education and School Environment
  • Family and Neighborhood Culture/Environment
 
The goal for future meetings will be to create two or three achievable projects for each focus area that youth and adults will work on together to initiate positive community change.
 
These meetings are open to the general public and all are welcome to attend to participate in this exciting opportunity and create positive neighborhood change. Please join us on Tuesday evenings from 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. at St. Mark’s & St. John’s Episcopal Church at 1245 Culver Road, Rochester, NY 14609. 
 
The schedule of meeting dates are:
August 15, 2006
August 29, 2006
September 12, 2006
September 26, 2006
October 10, 2006
October 24, 2006
November 14, 2006
November 28, 2006
December 12, 2006
 

Community Asset Mapping Project

 

Youth and Adults worked together to create the Community Asset Mapping survey instrument to map the assets of their community. This survey created a process to catalog the community's assets to work with the community to promote change. The process is run by the young people and guided by the adults to ensure that the young people’s voices and views are captured. 
 
The youth surveyed more than 300 individuals in Sector 8 neighborhoods.  The results of the survey detailed the community’s assets and needs as determined by the community’s own members. Community Asset Mapping helps the community determine its wealth in people, things, services and resources.
 
This work will enhance the work currently being done by the Steering Committee (see story above). For more information, please contact Nate Brown, Community Connector at the Community Place of Greater Rochester at 585-327-7200 x-115.
 

Sector 8 Neighborhood Retreat

“Sharing memories of the past and our visions for the future”

On March 4th and 5th, 2005, at No. 33 School, about 80 individuals—youth and adults who live, work, attend school, and worship in Sector 8 gathered for a Neighborhood Retreat: “Sharing memories of the past and our visions for the future.”

During the retreat, the participants revisited the history of their community, shared knowledge about resources and needs, learned about youth development, and planned together potential projects for change in their neighborhoods.

Following the Retreat, the Sector 8 community took part in a mini-grant process to make the proposed projects for positive change into a reality.

Sector 8 Mini-Grant Process

The mini-grant process followed the Neighborhood Retreat, “Sharing memories of the past and our visions for the future” held on March 4th and 5th, 2005.

With training from Youth As Resources (YAR), groups of youth and adults from the Sector 8 community formed partnerships and planned together projects for change in their neighborhoods. The Youth-led and Youth-designed projects that address a need within the Sector 8 Community, utilizing the many talents and abilities of youth through youth-adult partnerships, will occur between June 1st and August 31st, 2005.

The Sector 8 Mini-Grant Process is funded through a grant from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Family and Youth Services Bureau with support from the New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Rochester-Monroe County Youth Bureau, and Youth As Resources (YAR) of the Rochester-Monroe County Youth Bureau.

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