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Community
& Youth Development:
“Get
Things Going! 50 Asset-Building Activities for Workshops, Presentations,
and Meetings.”
Search Institute, 2000. 72 Pages.
This handbook is a resource designed to give youth and adult presenters
fun and practical asset-building activities and games that can be easily
incorporated into presentations and meetings. The activities featured in this book are all target issues
related to the developmental asset framework developed by the Search
Institute.
“Life
Lists For Teens: Tips, steps, hints, and how-tos for growing up, getting
along, learning, and having fun.”
Pamela
Espeland, Free Spirit Publishing, 2003, 260 pages.
Life Lists
is a user’s guide to life for teens.
More than 200 lists distill big topics like health and wellness,
relationships, school, service, goal-setting, and safety into
easy-to-follow tips, steps, and how-tos.
Cultural
Competency/Diversity:
“Cultural
Competence: A Guide for Human Service Agencies.”
Kimberleigh A. Nash, Child Welfare League of America, 1999, 48 pages.
One of the most critical challenges the child welfare field faces is the
need to understand and respond effectively to changes in the
multicultural nature of American society.
Given the range of pressures that have an impact on agencies,
executives of human service agencies face the dilemma of whether to
include cultural competency as an organizational goal.
This guide will help executives and their staffs learn to value
difference.
Health Care – Video Resources:
“Scenarios
USA: The Monster & Nightmare on AIDS Street.”
Scenarios USA, 2001, 16 minutes total.
Scenarios USA is a non-profit
organization dedicated to helping youth make smart decisions about their
lives by offering them a creative forum to look at their behavior and
express who they are and how they see the world. These
two stories were written by incarcerated youth at Rikers Correctional
Facility and by a 15-year old girl from Texas, respectively.
Management:
“Resolving
Conflict in Nonprofit Organizations: The Leader’s Guide to Finding
Constructive Solutions.”
Marion Peters Angelica, Amherst H. Wilder Foundation, 1999.
Use this practical guide to: identify and address conflict before it
turns into something destructive; resolve conflicts using the eight-step
process; create a better
work environment that will attract and retain employees; and empower the
people within your organization to handle their own conflicts
constructively.
Management
– Evaluation & Assessment:
“Agency
Readiness Index: A Self-Assessment and Planning Guide to Gauge Agency
Readiness to Work with Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth.”
Healthy Futures Project, National Network for Youth, 2003, 60 pages.
This guide is a tool designed to help community-based youth
serving agencies gauge their capacity to provide support and
opportunities for LGBT youth. It
includes self-assessment modules, score sheets, and planning guides that
help compile the information and make a plan for change.
Out of Home Care – Independent
Living
“It’s My Life: A Framework for
Youth Transitioning from Foster Care to Successful Adulthood.”
Casey Family Programs, 2001, Report: 75 pages, Summary: 25 pages.
This Report and Report Summary include Guiding Principles for Success,
Policy Background, Recommendations for Practice, and Outcome Indicators
for Youth in Transition.
Youth
& Family Practices – Counseling Skills:
“Even
From a Broken Web: Brief, Respectful Solution-Oriented Therapy for
Sexual Abuse and Trauma.”
Bill O’Hanlon and Bob Bertolino, W.W. Norton & Co., 1998, 190
pages.
Survivors of sexual abuse often feel at war with certain aspects of
themselves or their feelings – anger, fear, sexuality, memory, even
physical sensations – the web of self is broken. Here the authors provide clinicians with a forward-looking,
respectful therapy that taps into and honors people’s inherent healing
abilities. Their treatment
model is a major departure from most addressing sexual abuse victims: It
is less traumatic, less painful, and less disruptive to people’s
lives.
Youth
& Family Practices – Experiential Education:
“50
Ways to Use Your Noodle: Loads of Land Games with Foam Noodle Toys.”
Chris Cavert and Sam Sikes, Learning Unlimited, 1997, 200 pages.
This book is filled with land (or room) activities, for all ages, that
can enhance the gaming potential of teachers, activity directors,
program directors, experiential facilitators, parents and gatherings of
all sorts. The two sections
of the book include Games
and Problem-Solving Activities.
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