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Update from ACT for Youth | August 2024


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Featured Resources: Youth & Media

ACT for Youth Clearinghouse: Youth & Media


Our website serves as a clearinghouse for resources created by ACT for Youth and many other trusted sources. Find collections related to youth, technology, and media at the locations below.

Youth, Media, and Technology

While there is a great deal of public concern over negative effects of engaging in social media, research shows the balance of negative and positive effects to be individualized and nuanced. Resources here are focused on what we know through research.

Research

Youth and Media: Activities and Guides

Young people are immersed in digital media--and just like adults, they benefit from guided exploration. These activities cover digital safety, citizenship, and literacy, along with tools for incorporating tech into programming.

Activities

Youth Statistics: Internet and Social Media

This recently updated collection of selected statistics includes information on:

  • Device access and usage
  • Social media platforms
  • Online interaction and development
  • Entertainment
  • Access to health information
Statistics

Research and Resources

Toolkit

Youth Opportunity Toolkit

Search Institute offers this collection of tools and resources to support youth-serving organizations in promoting social capital. Key components include:

  • Why Relationships Matter
  • Social Capital: A Web of Relationships
  • Social Capital Framework
  • Improvement for Impact
YRBS Report

Youth Risk Behavior Survey

The Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) Data Summary & Trends Report: 2013–2023 provides the most recent surveillance data, as well as 10-year trends and 2-year changes in health behaviors and experiences of high school students in the United States.

Rest & Health Equity

For My Fellow People of Color: "It's Okay to Get-Away and Rest"

Written by Madhuri Jha, ETR’s Vice President of Science, Equity, and Integration, this article explores the historical nature of racial and ethnic inequities in rest, impacts on health, and how rest can itself be an act of resistance.

Professional Development

Accessibility is Not Accessible

Tech Impact

WEBINAR

Thursday, August 15, 2024

2:00-3:00 EDT

Free - Open - Registration required


In this webinar, the presenter will distill the most important concepts and strategies you need to know to both launch accessible digital products and keep them complient over time. Tech Impact is a nonprofit and national learder in technology services and training.

Register: Tech Impact

YTH Live Global 2024

ETR

VIRTUAL CONFERENCE

Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Free - Open - Registration required


At YTH Live Global, each year the content shifts to match the priorities of young people and professionals working at the intersections of youth, technology, and health. This year’s event will feature a keynote address and Q&A with inspiring youth trailblazers, a global innovation challenge focused on technology to improve youth health and well-being, and several youth-led breakout sessions to choose from that will spotlight youth innovation and engagement across a variety of disciplines and health topics. Registration closes September 20.

Learn more: YTH Conference

Youth Mental Health First Aid

Collaborative for Educational Services

VIRTUAL COURSE

September, November, December dates available

Free - Open - Registration required


This course is designed to teach adults who regularly interact with youth how to help an adolescent (age 12-18) who is experiencing a mental health or addictions challenge or is in crisis. The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people in both crisis and non-crisis situations.

Learn more: collaborative.org

Grant Opportunities

The New York Community Trust

Open Competitive Grants Program

NYC, Long Island, Westchester


The Trust has many living donors who suggest grants from donor-advised funds. These donor-advised funds do not accept proposals. However, hundreds of donors have created funds that are part of the Trust's competitive grants program, which distributes about $50 million per year to nonprofits. Some of these funds have no restrictions, while others have specific purposes. In each region, funding is available to achieve specific youth development goals.

Info for Nonprofits
Youth Development - NYC
Youth Development - Long Island
Youth Development - Westchester

This newsletter was developed with funding provided by the New York State Department of Health Bureau of Perinatal, Reproductive, and Sexual Health. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the ACT for Youth Center for Community Action and do not necessarily represent the views of the New York State Department of Health.