CYD: Winter 2000

Editor's Notes
-John P. Terry, Ph.D.

Community Youth Development: A Framework for Action
-Della M. Hughes, Susan P. Curnan

The Community Youth Development (CYD) Framework is a comprehensive, integrated approach to youth and community development, and a significant contribution to the field of youth and community work. In addition to its tocus on measuring program outcomes and impacts, the framework provides a clear picture of how CYD works, including its mission, key assumptions, and the key strategies and activities that define CYD in action.

An Interview With Craig Kielburger, Founder of Free the Children
-John Terry, Donna Woonteiler

Craig Kielburger is the 16-year-old founder of Free the Children and an international spokesperson for children's rights. His recent book, Free the Children (Harper Collins Books) and subsequent appearance on the Opra Winfrey show has raised public awareness about child labor and exploitation around the world.

New Partnerships and New Systems:
Supporting Young People's Growth and Job Readiness
-Jim Richmond

What do Living Classrooms in Baltimore, the Latino Community Development Agency in Oklahoma City, and The Food Project in Boston have in common? They are a few of the many initiatives, funded by the W. K. Kellogg corporation, that merge programs for youth with economic development efforts, job training, and education. Their combined efforts and successes have made a difference for both youth and their communities.

Young People Taking Responsibility for Change in Latin America:
Reflecting on the International Learning Group's First Meeting
-Steve Mokwena

In past issues, the International Youth Foundation (IYF) has taught us a great deal about bringing international lessons to the U.S. This article takes us to Latin America, where IYF and the Ford Foundation hosted the first International Learning Group on youth and community development. The focus of the meeting was to explore how young people can be agents of change in their families, communities, and society.

Balancing the Equation: Communities Supporting Youth, Youth Supporting Communities
-Karen Pittman

"Young people do not grow up in programs, they grow up in communities." Significant progress has been made in this regard, and in promoting the principle that community change is critical to youth development. But what about the idea that youth participation is critical to community change? In this article Karen Pittman talks about the challenges of bringing young people into the civic, social, and economic arenas of their communities.

Youth Involvement Can Be the Key to Community Development
-Julia Burgess

More and more community-based organizations see that young people are able to bridge many of the perceived differences within communities, especially racial and ethnic, that keep adults from working together. In this offering Julia Burgess explores how the integration of young people in community-based work for social change means changing the very culture of our community organizations.

The Youth Movement: Claiming Our Piece of the Pie
-Ben Smilowitz

If new ideas and creative thinkers are so valuable to boards-including nonprofit boards-why are youth consistently excluded? Drawing from his personal experiences, Ben Smilowitz discusses the youth representation movement and the importance of including youth in the policymaking decisions that affect them.

Youth Policy Approaches:
Where We've Come From. . . Where We're Going
-Miriam Rollin

As we examine trends for youth policies at the federal level we arrive at an unfortunate conclusion: where these trends are going and where we would like them to go are not identical. However, small steps are underway to reframe federal policy for youth to more fully incorporate a Community Youth Development approach.

New Strategies in Foundation Grantmaking for Children and Youth
-Heather B. Weiss, M. Elena Lopez

Based on their own critiques of their past grantmaking experiences, many foundations are currently building larger child and youth initiatives. This paper, researched by the Harvard Family Research Project and funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, reports on current trends and explores future directions in grantmaking for children and youth.