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The YouthLearn Guide: A Creative Approach to Working with Youth and Technology

The YouthLearn Guide: A Creative Approach to Working With Youth and Technology

This guide is an easy-to-use, hands-on manual with more than 160 pages of lessons, worksheets, and sample activities on how to set up a new learning program or enhance an existing one. The guide helps practitioners combine new technologies and proven teaching techniques in ways that will make your work even more rewarding for you and the children you serve.

My Mentor & Me

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My Mentor & Me

 

(The Governor’s Prevention Partnership, 2003)

 

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Summary:

 

The My Mentor & Me series is published by the Governor’s Prevention Partnership for the Connecticut Mentoring Partnership, a program supporting mentoring as a way of promoting the growth and development of children through mentoring relationships with caring adults.  The series includes:  My Mentor & Me:  The Elementary School Years, My Mentor & Me:  The Middle School Years, and My Mentor & Me:  The High School Years.  Each of these booklets contains 36 weekly age-appropriate activities that will foster the growth of a strong relationship between a mentor and mentee.

 

Why does FASTEN recommend this resource?

 

A strong mentoring relationship with a caring adult is a terrific way to help steer youth away from violence and substance abuse.  These booklets offer mentoring program coordinators some powerful and practical tools to give to volunteer mentors to help them build relationships with their new “mentees.” The activities and ideas included are specifically designed to help the mentoring relationship grow.  They include age-appropriate topics that may be of interest to mentees. 




 

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Stories and Activities for Children of Promise

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Stories and Activities for Children of Promise

(National Crime Prevention Council, 2004)

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The National Crime Prevention Council's Stories and Activities for Children of Promise is a workbook for children of prisoners that helps them deal positively with daily challenges they face.  Readers discover stories of other children with a parent in prison and see how these characters face teasing and bullying but also find family, friends, and mentors who can help them.  The stories encourage children to keep in touch with their incarcerated parent and to reach out to trusted friends and adults.  Also included are activities for the children to work through with their mentors.  These activities include thinking positively about themselves, identifying friends and family they can trust, planning for the future, and expressing and understanding emotions.

Why does FASTEN recommend this resource?

The National Crime Prevention Council is a national leader in issues related to crime and criminal justice.  The stories in this book are colorful, easy to read, multi-cultural, and introduce likable characters the kids can relate to.  Children will enjoy the book and learn about how to address the pain and struggles they experience, and mentors of children of prisoners will find this resource invaluable as it opens up discussions and introduces tough topics. 



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The Antisocial Behavior of the Adolescent Children of Incarcerated Parents: A Developmental Perspective

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The Antisocial Behavior of the Adolescent Children of Incarcerated Parents: A Developmental Perspective

 

by J. Mark Eddy and John B. Reid (published by the Urban Institute, 2002) 

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Summary:

This paper was prepared for the “From Prison to Home” Conference held January 30-31, 2002, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  It analyzes the antisocial behavior that children exhibit whose parents are incarcerated.  It offers an overview of the relationship between the parents’ criminality/incarceration(s) and the effect this has on the children’s behavior, and then discusses how these factors might be linked. Possible interventions that might make a difference on improving outcomes for these children are described.

Why does FASTEN recommend this resource?

Although this paper has an academic feel that may be unfamiliar to some practitioners, it addresses an issue that is not well-documented (i.e., it offers unique research findings). Perhaps the most valuable aspect of this resource is the listing it provides of different intervention models being tried around the country to address the unhealthy behaviors displayed by some adolescent children of prisoners.

 

 

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Effects of Parental Incarceration on Young Children

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Mentor Guide For People Working With Children of Promise

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The Heroic Revolution: A New Agenda for Youthwork

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The Heroic Revolution: A New Agenda for Youthwork

 

by Rev. Nelson E. Copeland, Jr. (published by the James C. Winston Publishing Company, Inc., 1995)

 

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As an urban youth worker, do you ever feel like many of the books on youth ministry you read don’t address the problems you face in the city?  Do they often seem written to address life in the suburbs rather than the harsh realities of urban life?  If so, then this book is for you.

 

Pulling from his own personal experience as an urban youth worker as well as his extensive reading in the literature of the field, Nelson Copeland presents a model for urban youth work from a Christian perspective that shows sensitivity to the challenges faced by urban youth workers.

 

Chapters include such topics as:

 

  • Building Cultural Selfhood
  • Youth Gangs and Leadership
  • The Urban Youth Intellectual
  • Producing a Practical Work Ethic in Urban Youth
  • Disciplinary Integrity

 

Throughout the book, Copeland gives concrete examples from his own experience to make his points. He also includes several useful appendices such as Six Steps to Nonviolent Social Change, Six Principles of Nonviolence, and Ethnic Colleges and Universities.

 

Why does FASTEN recommend this resource?

 

Copeland addresses the unique challenge presented by youth work in an urban context and discusses the specific needs of urban youth (particularly minorities) that set them apart from suburban youth. He does a particularly good job at examining the threat and the opportunity posed by gangs.




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Research Brief: Mentoring: A Promising Strategy for Youth Development

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Research Brief: Mentoring:  A Promising Strategy for Youth Development

 

(Susan Jekielek, Kristin A. Moore, Elizabeth Hair, Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, Child Trends, January 2002)

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This is a 8-page summary of the report, Mentoring Programs and Youth Development: A Synthesis. The report examines the role that mentoring plays in helping youth to develop a broad array of strengths and capacities in education, health and safety, and social and emotional well-being.  This report also evaluates various mentoring programs on the impact of program participation on youth outcomes.

Why does FASTEN recommend this resource?

The study on which this research brief reports reviewed examinations of ten youth mentoring programs in the U.S., to determine whether youth who participate in such programs are better off than those who do not. It concluded that “mentoring programs can be effective tools for enhancing the positive development of youth.” Kids in mentoring programs tended to have fewer absences from school and reported less alcohol and drug use and better relationships with their parents. Practitioners operating mentoring programs may find it useful to reference these studies in their grant-seeking applications and/or to review the best practices noted in the studies and measure their own programs against these effective practices.

 

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Effects of Parental Incarceration on Young Children

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Effects of Parental Incarceration on Young Children 

by Ross Parke and K. Alison Clarke-Stewart (published by the Urban Institute, 2002)

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Summary:

This paper was prepared for the “From Prison to Home” Conference held January 30-31, 2002 sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It examines the impact of parental incarceration on children’s well-being and development, to determine just what is happening to the children of incarcerated parents.

Why does FASTEN recommend this resource?

The paper addresses the “scope of the problem” by citing statistics about the patterns and demographics of both the children and the parents. It identifies factors that determine how the child will react to parental incarceration. This is helpful information for practitioners as they seek to identify actions that could mitigate the negative effects of parental incarceration.  The paper also offers brief case studies of several programs and discusses the challenges of establishing evaluation systems for assessing different types of interventions. It concludes with a section of public policy analysis relevant to incarceration issues.
 

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Amachi: Mentoring the Children of Prisoners in Philadelphia

Mentor Guide For People Working With Children of Promise

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Effects of Parental Incarceration on Young Children

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Effects of Parental Incarceration on Young Children 

by Ross Parke and K. Alison Clarke-Stewart (published by the Urban Institute, 2002)

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Summary:

This paper was prepared for the “From Prison to Home” Conference held January 30-31, 2002sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It examines the impact of parental incarceration on children’s well-being and development, to determine just what is happening to the children of incarcerated parents.

Why does FASTEN recommend this resource?

The paper addresses the “scope of the problem” by citing statistics about the patterns and demographics of both the children and the parents. It identifies factors that determine how the child will react to parental incarceration. This is helpful information for practitioners as they seek to identify actions that could mitigate the negative effects of parental incarceration.  The paper also offers brief case studies of several programs and discusses the challenges of establishing evaluation systems for assessing different types of interventions. It concludes with a section of public policy analysis relevant to incarceration issues.




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Amachi: Mentoring the Children of Prisoners in Philadelphia

Mentor Guide For People Working With Children of Promise

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Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Federal Resource Center for Children of Prisoners


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Clued In Sample Pack

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Clued In Sample Pack

by Human Relations Media (Learning Waves, 1999)

 

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Summary:

 

Most prevention programs are geared towards middle school/junior high students.  The Clued In Sample Pack includes a teacher’s resource book and four student workbooks aimed at youth in grades 3-6.  The workbooks let the students pretend they are detectives working to uncover “drugs’ darkest secret.”  Each workbook is laid out like a dossier and there are several introductory pages about each specific substance.  The majority of the workbook contains learning activities and opportunities to decode hidden messages.  The four substances that the workbooks cover are:

 

    • Alcohol
    • Tobacco
    • Inhalants
    • Marijuana

 

Why does FASTEN recommend this resource?

 

Children are exposed to drugs and substance abuse at earlier and earlier ages.  The interactive mystery-style format of the workbooks holds the attention of youth in grades 3-6 and provides a fun way to introduce the idea of substance abuse prevention in an educational setting.



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