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.
Learn more about our project.

Resources for State Teams

Current state teams can connect to resources available here:

Spotlighting Positive Youth Development

Get Connected with our State Teams

Click on one of the identified states above to learn more about how leaders across sectors are supporting the intentional integration of positive youth development principles into statewide efforts.

Network With Experts!

Extension professionals from across the country are looking for new partners to collaborate on promoting the health and well-being of young people. Use this new database to find those working in your state or county.

Are you an Extension professional interested in joining our database?
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Youth Risk Behavior Survey

The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) monitors priority health-risk behaviors and the prevalence of obesity and asthma among youth and young adults. It includes a national school-based survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and state, territorial, tribal, and local surveys conducted by state, territorial, and local education and health agencies and tribal governments. For more information on the YRBS, visit www.cdc.gov/yrbs.

Press Release - http://www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/yrbs/pdf/press_release_yrbs.pdf

YRBS in Brief - Background information on the YRBSS including uses for the data. Read more.

Youth Online- Analyze and create custom tables and graphs and perform statistical tests on high school and middle school YRBS results from 1991-2009, by site and health topic. Includes enhanced filtering, sorting, and customization. Read More.