Building Partnerships for Youth

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

Building Partnerships for Youth is part of the John and Doris Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences, in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Arizona, and gratefully acknowledges the hosting of this website by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

This website is supported by Cooperative Agreement Number 5U58DP000456 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The contents of this document are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Last Updated On November 20, 2009