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Find Extension Professionals in Your Community

Extension professionals from across the country are looking for new partners to work with them on promoting the health and well-being of young people. Use this new database to find those working in your state or county.

BPY Program Assessment Tool
How well do you integrate youth development into your programs? Use this interactive tool to determine which elements of youth development are strongly integrated into your program and which are not. Then utilize the NEW resource pages to help you think about new ways to enhance your program.
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Extension Database
You are invited to be a part of a new searchable database of Extension professionals which will be marketed as a tool for finding support and collaborators within your own state or community. To submit your information simply go to http://bpy.arizona.edu/dbform/ and complete the entry form.

About Building Partnerships for Youth
Building Partnerships for Youth is a partnership between National 4-H Council and the University of Arizona designed to build the capacity of societal institutions that work with young people. This project will support professionals in educational, health, faith-based, and voluntary youth organizations to facilitate the intentional integration of youth development concepts and approaches into policies and programs.
Learn more about our project.

Our approach to youth development
Read about our approach to youth development
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21 elements of youth development
What are the 21 elements? > Learn more
Locate a program by element > Locate a program
How materials are added to this site > Learn how materials are added

Locate a program - 3 ways to search our database!
Locate a variety of relevant programs from our extensive and dynamic database By element of youth development | By program activity
By descriptive keyword | or browse all programs

Resources

E-bulletins
Each e-bulletin is focused around an important concept of youth development
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Factsheets
Factsheets related to the elements of youth development and strategies for promoting positive youth development are available > View factsheets on a variety of youth development topics

Youth Development Links
View a list of useful links related to positive youth development > View links

BPY Trainings
View archived trainings hosted by Building Partnerships for Youth > Learn more about the trainings we offer

What people are saying about Building Partnerships for Youth
Hear what people from all over the country are saying > Read more

Community Collaboration Tool
The Community Collaboration Tool is a customizable PowerPoint tool to help bring people together about issues that are important for the health, education and well-being of young people > Learn more

Assessment Tool
Use our personal assessment tool to evaluate your program's ability to addres each of the 21 elements of youth development
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Building Partnerships for Youth is part of the John and Doris Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences, in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Arizona, and gratefully acknowledges the hosting of this website by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.