The Exchange

News from FYSB and the Youth Services Field

Focusing on Outcomes for Youth: Self Sufficiency

The Family and Youth Services Bureau believes the most crucial outcomes for runaway and homeless youth include well-being, permanent connections, safety and self-sufficiency. In this issue of The Exchange, we focus on ways to achieve and improve self-sufficiency for runaway and homeless youth.

Focusing on Outcomes for Youth: Safety

The Family and Youth Services Bureau believes the most crucial outcomes for runaway and homeless youth include well-being, permanent connections, safety and self-sufficiency. In this issue of The Exchange, we focus on ways to achieve and improve safety for runaway and homeless youth.

Focusing on Outcomes for Youth: Permanent Connections

The Family and Youth Services Bureau believes the most crucial outcomes for runaway and homeless youth include well-being, permanent connections, safety, and self-sufficiency. In this issue of The Exchange, we’ll focus on ways to achieve and improve permanent connections for runaway and homeless youth.

Focusing on Outcomes for Youth: Well-being

The Family and Youth Services Bureau believes the most crucial outcomes for runaway and homeless youth include well-being, permanent connections, safety, and self-sufficiency. In this issue of The Exchange, we’ll focus on ways to achieve and improve well-being for runaway and homeless youth.

Asking: “What’s Happened to You?” A Focus on Trauma-informed Care

Research suggests that most homeless youth have experienced multiple traumatic events both before becoming homeless and once on the street. This issue of the Exchange provides an introduction to trauma-informed care, an approach that asks, "What’s happened to you?" rather than, "What's wrong with you?"

A New Push for Teen Pregnancy Prevention

In this issue of the Exchange, we look at different ways to approach teen pregnancy prevention, engaging young men in prevention efforts, and reaching out to teen mothers to delay subsequent pregnancies.

 

Please Leave a Message: Marketing and Communications for Youth-serving Nonprofits

No matter what you are communicating, or how, anything that goes into print, the airwaves, or the Internet about your organization is marketing. When done effectively, marketing enables potential clients, donors, volunteers, and the community to immediately recognize, value, and trust your organization and the work you do.

Research to Practice: Making Developmental Systems Theory Work for You

Understanding the different settings in which young people grow up, how these environments interact, and how to work with young people within these different settings is key to helping young people thrive. This issue of the Exchange investigates developmental systems theory and how it can strengthen youth-serving organizations.

Positive Staff Development

We strive to promote young people’s positive relationships with others, to provide opportunities for youth to learn, and to empower them to assume leadership roles. We call all of that Positive Youth Development. But what about positive staff development?

Serving Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Youth With Open Arms

In this issue of The Exchange, we take a look at how family- and youth-serving organizations serve lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth.

Using Technology in Family and Youth Work

In this issue of The Exchange, we take a look at how family- and youth-serving organizations use technology in working with young people and in managing their staff and operations.
 
 

Serving Youth in an Economic Downturn

Supporting runaway and homeless youth program can be a tough job in the current economy. NCFY takes a look at how programs around the country have coped with the challenges of accommodating more youth.
 
 

New Year, New Look at Positive Youth Development

We asked longstanding experts in the field—advocates, practitioners, researchers and educators—to reflect on the current state of PYD policy and practice and to provide insight on how we can continue to move forward. Here's what they told us.

Fostering Successful Transitions to Adulthood Through Collaboration

This issue of the Exchange looks at the Administration on Children, Youth and Families' campaign to encourage collaboration between programs that help foster and homeless youth transition to independence.

Sustaining Your Youth Program: Weatherproofing Against Financial Storms

Having more than one funding source can mean the difference between weathering the storm of budget crunches and going under. This issue of The Exchange looks at “sustainability”—the art of making sure you have the funds to keep your youth programs running.

 

Addressing the Complexities of Family and Relationship Violence

Relationship violence has been a recent "hot topic" in our news; this issue of the Exchange provides tips on how to address these issues with youth.

Street Outreach Programs Reach Out to Youth With Diverse Needs

This issue of The Exchange explores the conditions of young people living on the streets as well as the dangers street outreach workers face and how programs can minimize those dangers.

Aftercare: Staying in Touch With Youth After They Have Left the System

In this issue of The Exchange, we take a look at how Runaway and Homeless Youth Programs continue to serve young clients after they leave the system and provides tips on facilitating successful transitions to adult independent living.

Linking Education and Employment for Brighter Futures

This issue of The Exchange explores how youth-serving agencies are linking education and employment to create brighter futures for runaway and homeless youth.

Tribal Programs Harness Cultural Strengths to Improve Conditions for Families and Youth

This issue of The Exchange highlights a number of initiatives around the country that look to harness cultural strengths of Tribal communities to improve conditions for families and youth.

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