Overview
The NYS AYD Partnership is introducing a newly Revised AYD Curriculum. The original AYD curriculum (developed in 1991), a 28 hr youth worker training, has been revised, updated, infused with current research and shortened to an 18 hour training model. Building on the original AYD concepts of positive youth development outcomes, Services/Opportunities/Supports (SOS), youth engagement, adultism, the new training includes new activities, handouts and an additional section on adolescent development and social identity formation. After several pilots and 2 direct trainings conducted by the NYS AYD Team, the first Training of Facilitators (TOF) was launched in November 2006. Four additional TOFs will be offered throughout New York State in 2007.

Trainings in 2007

February 28 & March 2 - Revised AYD Advancing Youth Development - Direct Training New York City

March 14-15 - Revised Advancing Youth Development Training of Facilitators (TOF) Poughkeepsie, NY

March 29 - Revised Advancing Youth Development (AYD) Overview Albany, NY For experienced AYD facilitators only

April 24-25 - Revised Advancing Youth Development (AYD) Training of Facilitators (TOF) Utica, NY

September 18-19 - Revised Advancing Youth Development (AYD) Training of Facilitators (TOF) Binghamton, NY

For more information on these trainings contact Fran Miller at 315-866-7920 or fjt2@cornell.edu.

For further information on the AYD Partnership contact Jutta Dotterweich, Director jd81@cornell.edu, or Kay Telfer, Co-Director kct1@cornell.edu. The AYD Partnership is an Outreach Program of the Department of Human Development. Steve Goggin continues as the Principle Investigator and Judy Briggs is the Administrative Assistant. Partners are Cornell Cooperative Extension, NYS Office of Children and Family Services, ACT for Youth, and the Association of NYS Youth Bureaus. AYD is in it 9th program year.