Capacity-Building and Communications

To support a series of radio reports for National Public Radio on healthy youth development.

To support the 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, “Prevention Science to Public Health: Promoting Well-Being in the Population.”

To support a citywide group of NYC public and private stakeholders to connect, improve, and scale-up government and privately funded programs for young adults currently disconnected from education and job preparation services.

To support dissemination of targeted health information resources and intervention strategies that are responsive to the needs of a variety of communities, both nationally and locally, especially those that face the greatest challenge.

To support a two day symposium at the Social Science Research Council concerning education research use.

To support the work of the Innovation Center for Community & Youth Development that brings attention to innovations in youth development, youth leadership, youth activism and civic engagement, service-learning, organizational development, youth governance, and evaluation.

What are the critical mechanisms in social settings that create positive youth development? By what means can we improve these positive settings?

To deepen and forge communications between and across research, policy, practice, and media within the allied youth fields.

The Afterschool Alliance will convene a group of 15-20 key Latino leaders to discuss the relevance and importance of after-school to the Latino community.

To support the 19th Annual Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families (GCYF) Conference.