The NYS Advancing Youth Development (AYD) Partnership is receiving national attention! In March, Youth Today, a Washington-based monthly newspaper focusing on youth work, featured a lengthy evaluation of the AYD training model in New York State. The partnership of Cornell Cooperative Extension, the NYS Office of Children and Family Services, ACT for Youth, and the Association of NYS Youth Bureaus is recognized. The article summarizes the important evaluation work Kathryn Bowen, Ph.D. (Human Ecology) has been conducting over the course of the Partnership. Jutta Dotterweich, AYD Director and ACT for Youth Lead Trainer, and Assistant Director Kay Telfer, CCE Broome County are quoted extensively.

As Jutta Dotterweich notes in the article, out-of-state interest is mounting for the newly Revised Advancing Youth Development Curriculum as well as the unique train-the-trainer/inter-agency structure of AYD. In fact, a recent training of facilitators in Poughkeepsie welcomed an assistant professor and extension specialist from Kansas State University who expressed a great desire to forge a close working relationship with the NYS AYD Team. Congratulations to the AYD Team!

The AYD Partnership is an Outreach Program of the Department of Human Development. Steve Goggin is the Principle Investigator. Partners are Cornell Cooperative Extension, NYS Office of Children and Family Services, ACT for Youth, the Family Life Development Center, and the Association of NYS Youth Bureaus.

For More Information

- Does Staff Training Improve Youth Work? See article p. 24 in the March 2007 issue of Youth Today.

- AYD Partnership website: http://www.nyayd.org

- Jutta Dotterweich, AYD Partnership Director, jd81@cornell.edu

- Kay Telfer, AYD Partnership Co-Director, kct1@cornell.edu