CNYD is increasing the impact of our work by partnering with other large youth-serving organizations to transfer our youth development capacity-building resources for their use. In this way we hope to serve as a youth development catalyst in large youth-serving organizations with their own training capacity and in communities outside the Bay Area. Thus far we have formed partnerships with the YMCA of San Francisco and the San Francisco Boys and Girls Clubs, with intermediary organizations outside the Bay Area, such as the Youth Service Providers Network of Sacramento, and with large, youth-focused initiatives, such as the California After School Partnership. The goal of these partnerships is to integrate the youth development approach into each organization's staff development efforts. Sharing our know-how in this way ensures that our partner organizations gain youth development resources that are locally rooted and can be adapted to their contexts, and that can be available on an ongoing basis.

Although each partnership differs in scope and form, all share the following characteristics:

• a long-term (one or two year) commitment from CNYD and the partner organization to work together
  
• the ongoing support of CNYD's training staff for a meaningful transfer of CNYD's expertise to the partner organization
  
• often, the creation of a Youth Development Specialist position within the partner organization, if one doesn't already exist

Current and recently completed partnerships are described below.

Learn More about the

Afterschool for All

Technical Assistance Collaborative

(AFA TAC)

UPDATES

Join us as we showcase our 2007-2008 Mentee Portfolios and celebrate the completion of the first year of AFA TAC!

June 11, 2008

We Are Youth Workers!

10am-1pm Youth Worker Showcase

Location: San Francisco LGBT Center, 1800 Market Street

The Youth Worker Showcase is free, but you must register to attend:

Click here to register

8pm Community Celebration

Location: TBD

What is AFA TAC?

The Afterschool for All Technical Assistance Collaborative (AFA TAC) is a new partnership between the California School-Age Consortium, the Community Network for Youth Development (CNYD), SHPD ExCEL After School Programs, the Youth Development Peer Network (YDPN), Sports 4 Kids, and the San Francisco Department of Children, Youth and their Families (DCYF). Our vision is to create a coordinated city-wide model of technical assistance to support afterschool programs and develop a workforce of prepared, committed, stable, and supported professionals.

June 2008 Activity Planning Intensive

AFA TAC is proud to offer a four week Activity Planning Intensive specifically for DCYF funded programs. Each organization that participates in the intensive is asked to send two staff members who can commit to attending all sessions and working with a coach from the collaborative to implement strategies learned in the intensive at your program site(s). Space is limited to 40 participants. Below is a description of the intensive.

Program Activity Planning: Lesson Development
This is your opportunity to plan your program activities for next year! Join us for an engaged intensive that includes 16 hours of training and 5 hours on onsite coaching.

You will learn how to:

• Plan interesting and challenging lessons that build youth skills;
• Conduct focused discussions with youth to determine their interests within program parameters;
• Identify and breakdown skill youth need in order to successfully participate;
• Facilitate interesting, challenging and engaging activities; and,
• Use a goal setting and feedback process to support learning.

We will be looking to participants to help drive specific content areas they would like us to focus on in the intensive some Intensive objectives may change.

Dates and Location

Training dates are every Thursday in June - June 5th, 12th, 19th and 26tt - from 10-2pm including a light breakfast and complimentary lunch. Coaching dates and times will be individually scheduled with participants. The Intensive will take place at:

Shinnyo-en Foundation

201 Mission Street, Suite 2450
San Francisco, CA 94105

Tel: 415-777-1977
Fax: 415-777-1987
www.sef.org

RSVP Information

To RSVP for this event please send the names and contact information of staff who will participate to Maggie Mangan at mmangan@calsac.org. RSVP deadline is May 29th.

Contact

For more information regarding the content of the intensive and expectations of participants please contact Stacey Daraio at:

Office: 415-495-0622 ext. 304
Mobile: 415-987-0467
stacey@cnyd.org

What is the Leadership Track?

In an effort to provide holistic supports to afterschool youth workers, AFA TAC has designed a tiered professional development track for emerging and existing leaders in the field. This includes program directors, site coordinators, assistant site coordinators, and program leaders preparing to move into an equivalent leadership role working in school-based, faith-based, and community-based programs across San Francisco.

The Leadership Track includes three tiers of professional development designed to meet the changing needs of San Francisco's next generation of afterschool leaders. These tiers include:

Learning Circles

A 10-session, ½ day (9:00am-1:00pm) Learning Circle for new and existing site coordinators seeking to increase their knowledge and skills, share best practices and network with their peers. Learning Circle participants will receive 40 hours of professional development recognized through an AFA TAC Certificate of Completion. The application to participate as a member of the 2008-2009 Learning Circle cohort will be available soon. Check back for updates.

AFA TAC is pleased to offer the opportunity for youth workers in San Francisco to participate in learning circles on a drop-in basis.

Time and Locations

2008-2009 Learning Circle dates, times and locations still TBD. Check back regularly for updates.

RSVP Information

For each learning circle you choose to participate in, please RSVP to Maggie Mangan at mmangan@calsac.org by the RSVP deadline and specify whether you plan to attend the networking lunch from 1:00 to 2:00 pm.

Peer-led Mentoring

• The opportunity for new site coordinators to receive mentoring and coaching from a peer in the field and complete a professional portfolio. Portfolios will be showcased at an end of year celebration on June 11th, 2008 (location TBD).

• The opportunity for experienced site coordinators to build knowledge and skills in supporting others by mentoring new site coordinators. Mentors will be trained and supported in conducting mentee site assessments and working with mentees to develop and complete a mentee work plan and portfolio. Mentors will also receive coaching throughout the mentoring process.

The application to participate in the 2008-2009 Leadership Track will be available soon. Check back for updates.

Downloads

PowerPoint Presentation from the 9/27 Kick-off event

Frequenly Asked Questions

2007-2008 Application

For more information, please contact Carrie Wickman-Dorn at      415/495-0622 ext. 300 or at carrie@cnyd.org.

YMCA of San Francisco
Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco
Youth Service Providers Network - Sacramento
Statewide Afterschool Programs

YMCA of San Francisco

In the Fall of 2000, the YMCA of San Francisco and CNYD embarked on a long-term project to transfer youth development expertise from CNYD and build the capacity of the YMCA to integrate and sustain youth development training within its ongoing professional development structure.

CNYD and the YMCA worked together to implement changes at all levels of the organization. During the first year of the partnership, a youth development specialist was hired by the YMCA. CNYD worked closely with her to offer the Youth Development Learning Network in-house, with the President, Vice-President, Executive Directors and two youth workers from each of the sixteen YMCA branches participating in the intensive, four-month training process The second year of the partnership was devoted to integrating assessment resources that measured youth development outcomes on a similar, organization-wide basis.

While these strategies provided the basic means for encouraging youth development principles to take hold, additional strategies began to emerge from the YMCA itself. Participants in the Youth Development Learning Network realized the need for an organization-wide action plan which they created and implemented in conjunction with the Youth Development Specialist. The action steps included such things as creating youth-friendly branches, establishing a set of youth development best practices as a guide to program implementation, and encouraging youth to serve on the branch boards.

The YMCA has now fully adapted our youth development training resources to their own needs. The Youth Development Specialist offers an abbreviated Youth Development Learning Network twice each year for all organization staff and they have developed a youth development certificate program for additional in-depth training. Each branch is now able to fully assess the quality of youth development experiences it offers on a regular basis and implement improvement strategies to strengthen organizational and program practices.

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Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco

The Boys and Girls Clubs of San Francisco (BGCSF), with eight branches throughout the city, has participated in a variety of CNYD's offerings over the years. When BGCSF needed youth development tools for measuring the impact of their programs, it made sense to form a partnership with CNYD to transfer our youth development assessment strategies to be used by BGCSF on an ongoing basis.

To date, young people in all of the BGCSF branches have been surveyed about the quality of their youth development experiences and now each branch of BGCSF is working with CNYD staff to assess these responses and develop and implement action plans for organizational and program improvement.

At the end of this process, BGCSF will have the capacity to continuously assess the value of the improvement strategies they have put in place, and their effect on the quality of young people's developmental experiences at the BCG. We expect this continuous cycle of organizational and program improvement to become institutionalized throughout the BCGSF.

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Youth Service Providers Network - Sacramento

The Youth Service Providers Network (YSPN) is an intermediary organization which provides support to youth-serving organizations in the four-county area around Sacramento, California. It currently serves over 200 member organizations, ranging from large, county-wide groups such as the County Park and Recreation Department to small community-based organizations. After some members participated in CNYD's training programs in San Francisco, they wanted to bring those same resources to the Sacramento area. CNYD firmly believes that this type of support and training is most effective when it is offered by a local organization that knows the region and will be around permanently to offer ongoing assistance. Therefore, in September 2002, CNYD and YSPN agreed to a partnership to transfer CNYD's know-how and experience.

In January 2003, YSPN hired a youth development specialist and an initial Youth Development Learning Network was offered in Sacramento. Stacey Daraio from CNYD provided support and training throughout this process, including preparing the Sacramento team to conduct the Learning Network sessions. YSPN has implemented a new strategy by cultivating community trainers from the YSPN membership who work on a volunteer basis. CNYD provided ongoing coaching support as the Learning Network participants implemented strategies for change within their own organizations following their Learning Network experience.

YSPN is independently offering its second Learning Network in Fall of 2003 as the next step in what all parties agree has been a very productive partnership.

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Statewide Afterschool Programs

CNYD has been a valued partner of the California After School Partnership (CASP) since they began building a statewide infrastructure to support the California school-based after school movement. CASP members include the California Department of Education, the Foundation for California's Children & Youth, the California Governor's Office of Education, and the Center for Collaborative Solutions. Over the past three years, CNYD has been working with CASP to ensure youth development approaches are integrated into after school programs in the following ways:

• In 1999, CNYD was asked by CASP to develop a youth development guidebook and related trainings to introduce the practices of youth development to after school programs across the state. We have since distributed 1,100 Guides and conducted 17 trainings statewide. This year we will be training trainers throughout California to use the Guide to provide locally-based youth development trainings across California.
  
• Over the past two years, CNYD has partnered with Dr. Andrea Fletcher, Director of Program Development at the California After School Partnership, to create and deliver technical assistance through the Regional Learning Center Initiative. There are now Regional Learning Centers in each of the eleven regions throughout California, that serve as demonstration sites for quality after school programming. Collectively, these programs include 271 sites and 1962 staff members, with 36,000 students participating daily. This is a diverse student population in urban, suburban and rural areas at the elementary and middle school levels.
  
• Recently, CNYD was asked by CASP to partner with the California Department of Education in leading a learning community to promote effective practice with the new 21st Century High School After School grantees.

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