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About Building Partnerships for Youth

Building Partnerships for Youth is a partnership between National 4-H Council and the University of Arizona designed to build the capacity of youth serving organizations in the fields of education, health, faith, and youth development to facilitate the intentional integration of youth development concepts and approaches into policies and programs.
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Get Ready to Spotlight Positive Youth Development

A unique and exciting opportunity for individuals interested in putting Positive Youth Development concepts to work at the state level through interdisciplinary collaborations. - Web-Based Sessions - Info and Enter

Latest Announcements

Just Announced! Spotlighting Positive Youth Development Teams selected for 2009-2010! Please join us in congratulating Colorado, Kansas, Minnesota, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Louisiana on their successful applications to participate in our next cohort to promote positive youth development across the sectors of education, health, youth programming, and the faith community. More information will be coming soon about each of the teams and their goals for the project. This year's application process was extremely competitive. We received more than double the number of applications this year versus our last cohort, including applications from more than 29 states and even interest internationally. Thank you for your interest in our work!

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Check out our map of current and past state teams participating in the project!

Resources for State Teams

Current state teams can connect to resources available here:

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What people are saying about Building Partnerships for Youth

"For the past eight months we have worked within our Hawaii Building Partnerships for Youth team very closely with Drs. Dan McDonald and Karen Hoffman Tepper from the University of Arizona. They have been providing us excellent consult and technical assistance and support. That has given us the opportunity to not only come together and talk about our partnerships and to strengthen non-school-hour programming, but to see a PowerPoint presentation that has been developed for this [event] to help move this [effort] forward in our state, in our communities, and in our schools."

Candice Radner Calhoun
Planner, Adolescent Wellness Program
Hawaii State Department of Health, Family Health Services Division, Maternal and Child Health Branch

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