Working WIth Youth - Youth-Adult Relationships

Strategies and actions teachers and other school staff can take to increase school connectedness.

A review of more than 360 research studies detailing intervention strategies found to be effective.

Tip sheet for OAH / ACYF / FYSB grantees. Outlines elements of youth engagement and explains why it's important. Includes brief examples from the field of successful techniques.

Tip sheet with ideas for practitioners who want to integrate parent-child communication into their program. Reviews what we know about the benefits of strong positive parent-adolescent communication. 

Wide variety of activity ideas categorized by skill or benefit. Each activity explains the benefit to the parent-teen relationship.

Learning activities for parent-child connectedness

Summarizes recent research on developmental relationships; notes they are catalytic for effective education, programs and services for children, youth and families; includes 55 ideas for deepening one-to-one relationships.

A variety of concrete resources for school administrators and staff, teachers, and parents to improve a child's feeling that adults and peers in the school care about their learning as well as about them as individuals—an important protective factor. 

Forum to exchange information on order to advance knowledge, collaboration and partnerships to prep teens for the future.