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     Grades K-3 (ages 5-9)

     Middle Childhood (ages 8-12)

     Adolescents (ages 12-18)

     Developmental Assets and Library Connections

Advancing Youth Development - New York State Partnership

           Youth Development Trainings are available for your library staff.  You can contact Francine Vernon (231-3243) for more information.  This is from a recent Youth Bureau newsletter:

          AYD is a fun, interactive curriculum that aims to increase the skills and knowledge of youth workers and

to support recognition of youth work as a valued profession. The training helps build local networks of

youth workers and aims to institutionalize the basic principles of positive youth development in agencies

and programs serving youth.

Advancing Youth Development is taught by local teams of youth service professionals throughout New

York State. In Westchester, the AYD Training Team consists of representatives from the White Plains

Youth Bureau, the Westchester Library System, the Westchester County Department of Correction, the

Children’s Village, the Peekskill Youth Bureau, and After School Works NY, with the Westchester

County Youth Bureau as lead agency.

Since 2004 Westchester has trained over 200 professionals in the principles of youth development, using

the AYD curricula. The training has been well received, with participants saying, “This training has helped

me to get through my fears of facilitating group activities,” “I have been able to implement some of the

ideas and activities in my youth program,” and “The training was awesome and the participants inspiring!”

For more information about AYD, contact Sue Lerich-Gersten at (914) 995-2746 or go to www.nyayd.org.