Community Partnerships With Youth, Inc.
A national training, resource design, and technical assistance organization that specializes in Youth as Trustees of their communities, Youth in Governance, and Youth as Philanthropists. Curriculum and training are available in all of these areas. FireStarter Youth Power Curriculum
Designed to promote youth leadership development through community engagement. Includes activities to build community awareness, teamwork, and action planning skills. Free curriculum includes participant and facilitator manuals. By the Freechild Project.
Innovation Center
Based on the belief that young people should have a role in planning and implementing community and organizational programs and policies that affect them, the Innovation Center promotes youth/adult partnerships: connections based on mutual respect and trust. The John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities
Represents a partnership between university and communities to build new practices, knowledge, and capacity for youth development and learning. It acts on the conviction that whole communities are vital to better outcomes for youth, and that new knowledge, connections, and resources will foster the change necessary to achieving these goals.
Mix It Up
The Mix It Up Grants Program funds youth-directed activist projects that focus on identifying, crossing and challenging social boundaries in schools and communities. Grants are limited to $250, and we can give you only one. A website of The Southern Poverty Law Center.
National Youth Court Center
Youth Court Training Package, funded by OJJDP, developed in cooperation with the American Bar Association, contains student training manuals for different youth court models, an instructor's guide, a promotional video, and a CD-ROM. Cost $45. To order; 800-285-2221. New Light Leadership Coalition, Inc.
Non-profit, youth driven organization providing leadership training, development and networking opportunities for young people ages 16-25 years old.
Teens, Crime, and the Community
National program about teens getting involved in crime prevention to make themselves safer and their communities stronger. Includes database that matches teens with volunteer opportunities, virtual volunteering that can be done from a computer, sharing ideas with other teens. Joint program of the National Crime Prevention Council and Street Law, Inc TeenGrowth
TeenGrowth is an interactive Web site tailored toward the health interests and general well-being of the teenage population.
Youth/Adult Partnerships
Innovation Center program that works to build the field by sharing tools and resources; helping to develop a common language; and providing opportunities for dialogue. Youth on Board
A grassroots nonprofit organization that prepares youth to be leaders in their communities and strengthens relationships between youth and adults by providing publications, customized workshops, and technical assistance. Project of YouthBuild USA. | 
