Positive youth development is a holistic approach that focuses on creating a developmentally appropriate learning setting for young people.
Positive youth development strategies focus on forging positive relationships; strengthening academic, soft and technical skills; cultivating trustworthy, safe spaces; and offering youth opportunities to succeed in meaningful ways. Another defining characteristic of Positive Youth Development is that youth are treated as equal partners and engage with their communities, schools, organizations, peer groups and families in ways that are both constructive and productive.
Youth-serving organizations looking to identify and address programmatic barriers that are holding back young people of color have a new resource on hand, courtesy of the research nonprofit Child Trends and a paper funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Ten recommendations offer timely guidance to probation leaders who are adjusting their probation practices in light of COVID-19. Learn how probabion systems can better support young people during this challenging time.
Young people, especially those who’ve experienced public systems and homelessness, are facing numerous challenges amid the coronavirus pandemic. Learn how Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential (LEAP) is developing solutions for these issues.
Juvenile justice jurisdictions participating in Casey's Deep-End Initiative have outpaced reductions in confinement at the national level, according to a new report. Learn how these systems found new ways to ensure that young people, especially youth of color, recovered from their mistakes.
This report explores the Casey Foundation’s Deep-End Initiative, which has demonstrated that juvenile justice jurisdictions can safely and significantly reduce youth confinement — especially for young people of color. Read the report to learn more.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation recently selected the first cohort of 10 young-adult fellows who will support Learn and Earn to Achieve Potential (LEAP). Learn more about the fellows and their charge.
The research organization Child Trends has launched an online resource offering science-based definitions for terms and concepts related to adolescent development.
Offering incentives beats traditional supervision in encouraging positive behavior change among youth on probation, according to a new study funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation.
A special two-volume issue of Child Welfare features two articles penned by staffers of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The articles address two significant aspects of young people in foster care: youth engagement and keeping young people in families.
After achieving significant gains in its work to improve mental and behavioral health among high-school students in Providence, Rhode Island, CYC has launched a series of tools supported by the Annie E. Casey Foundation to help like-minded communities replicate their success.
