Impacting Lives One Teen at a Time: What Directors Should Know
STEM Resources & Training for Program Leaders
From Maine Mathematics and Science Alliance:
If you’re looking for resources to support your youth in the Engineering Mindset, you may want to check out this collection from Million Girls Moonshot, shared by the Afterschool Alliance.
If you’d like to learn more about Engineering Mindsets, an ACRES module about Engineering Practices would be perfect. Check out cohort RT32EP, which meets April 7th, April 21st, and May 5th from 3:00 – 5:00 PM EST. Stipends are still available. Register at https://mmsa.org/projects/acres/join-a-cohort/ and use code RT32EP.
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Virtual Programs with Teens
from Teen Librarian Cindy Shutts: Cindy Crushes Programming www.teenlibrariantoolbox.com
Navigating Youth Media
As the forward in this report states, “Young people are navigating their developing
identities in the midst of tremendous social and technological change. They are increasingly relying on digital media to connect, learn, and play.” This initiative is seeking to identify current media habits, gaps and ways media can better benefit youth.
This report is the first publication of an initiative called By/With/For Youth: Inspiring Next Gen Public Media Audiences. Media production by youth, with youth, and for youth describes approaches to engaging public media’s “missing audience” of tweens and teens
who fall between content offerings for young children and adults. This literature review is a precursor to the full report, which will represent the ideas of a diverse group of youth ages 10-17 being interviewed at the time of this publication.
Blog post: Let’s Talk About Public Media and the Next Generation
More about By/With/For Youth: Inspiring Next Gen Public Media Audience
Winter Programs and Engagement Ideas – Slides
Let’s Talk – Facilitating Crucial Conversations with Students from Teaching Tolerance
National Runaway Prevention Month – November
I wanted to share some resources for you to help support the youth in your community during National Runaway Prevention Month.
The National Runaway Safeline has some great resources, including:
-Free Educational and Outreach Materials:
-Presentations about the National Runaway Prevention Month for the community, social media posts and more. https://www.1800runaway.org/nrpm/
-Runaway Prevention Curriculum. “a free, evidence-based, interactive, 14 module curriculum intended to educate young people about alternatives to running away as well as to build life skills so that youth can resolve problems without resorting to running away or unsafe behavior.”
-They also have prevention specialists that will lead a virtual youth group discussion:
Also there is an excellent article on Webjunction: https://www.webjunction.org/news/webjunction/serving-homeless-youth.html This is a great opportunity to network with social service agencies and homeless prevention programs.
Remember:
1 in 10 young adults (age 18 to 25) and 1 in 30 minors (age 13-17) experienced unaccompanied homelessness in a one-year period. This translates to approximately 3.5 million young adults and 700,000 minors (Morton et al, 2017)
TeenTober 2020
Did you know it is TeenTober? The Young Adult Library Services Association invites you to share in this new teen initiative. It aims to celebrate teens, promote year-round teen services and the innovative ways teen services helps teens learn new skills, and fuel their passions in and outside the library. Free marketing tools, including web graphics can be found on the TeenTober webpage.