1. Life after YouthBuild 900 Graduates Reflect on Their Lives, Dreams and Experiences
Brandeis University and Temple University
In September 2003, researchers at Brandeis University and Temple University completed Life After YouthBuild, a study on almost 900 YouthBuild graduates conducted in collaboration with YouthBuild USA. A combination of detailed surveys of 882 YouthBuild graduates from more than 60 sites and in-depth interviews with a cross-section of 57 graduates from eight sites, the study was designed to contact a significant number of graduates to find out what they are doing, how they are doing, and how they evaluate their YouthBuild experience.
2. Measuring the Impact of Youth Voluntary Service Programs
A World Bank and Innovations in Civic Participation publication on youth service as a strategy for positive youth development, which features YouthBuild prominentely.
3. Working Hands/Working Minds
YouthBuild USA
Working Hands, Working Minds is a construction training curriculum developed by YouthBuild USA with funding from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation. The curriculum is designed to facilitate academic learning in an applied context. Essential reading, writing, and math skills are taught in an introduction to the construction trades. Through activities, community research projects, workplace exploration, group projects, role-plays and games, students are introduced to key construction-related skills and concepts. Working Hands, Working Minds is designed to be used collaboratively by classroom and vocational teachers to demonstrate the interrelationship between construction and academics.
4. Leadership Development Handbook
Written by Youthbuild USA under contract with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, this handbook is one of a series designed to help people run effective Youthbuild programs in their communities. Leadership Development at a Youthbuild Program offers advice on how to plan, organize, and implement the leadership development component of a Youthbuild program. This book is especially useful for program directors, program managers, and other program staff because it provides specific suggestions for incorporating leadership development into all aspects of the program.
5. YouthBuild USA Report on the Youthful Offender Project
Through a partnership with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and 34 local YouthBuild programs, YouthBuild USA is demonstrating how the YouthBuild program model can provide an effective alternative to incarceration, and a viable re-entry program and pathway to success for formerly incarcerated youth seeking to transform their lives and become productive, contributing members in their communities. This report details the components, outcomes, and key learnings of this important three-year initiative serving more than 1,000 youth in 34 communities.
6. Opening Career Pathways for Young People: Workforce Development Strategies for YouthBuild Programs, Charter Schools, and Other Youth Organizations
YouthBuild/HUD
This handbook is for teachers, trainers, counselors, case managers, career advisors, program managers, executive directors, school principals, and anyone else working to get low-income, low-skilled young people onto career pathways toward economic security and sustainability. Its central purpose is to provide youth organizations, especially YouthBuild programs, with a strategy for getting graduates onto viable career paths in employment sectors that offer economic promise. The handbook focuses on creating an organizational culture of career development and on the specific program building blocks that can lead to graduate success.
7. YouthBuild Bulletin - Special Green Service Issue
This issue focuses on Green Housing, including articles on the following: YouthBuild USA Green Initiative, YouthBuild USA Provides Green Affordable Housing Training with Support from Walmart, Danielle Brice Gets a "Cool" job After Finishing YouthBuild, Walmart Foundation Sponsors YouthBuild USA Green Fellows Program, Green Career Program, Wynter Augier Shares Love of Nature with Children, YouthBuild Chapters Across the Nation Honor Green Call-for-Service Day, and Green Bits.
8. Guide to Expanding Opportunities in Trade Unions
Sarah Pettinger et al
This manual is intended to serve as a resource for YouthBuild program staff, participants, and graduates to help young people who are interested in construction-related careers get jobs with building-trade unions. The goal is for this information to be the foundation for local interactions between YouthBuild programs and trade unions—interactions that lead to increased opportunities for work and apprenticeships at local unions.
9. YouthBuild and Habitat for Humanity: A Guide for Local Collaboration
Anne B. Gass/YouthBuild USA/HUD
Youthbuild programs across the United States are joining forces with local Habitat for Humanity affiliates to build affordable housing. Given the missions of both organizations, this can be a natural fit that revitalizes neighborhoods, creates new homes, and engages youth. The intent of this guide is to shorten the learning curve of local programs just embarking on similar partnerships and help them get off to a good start. This guide contains the lessons learned by Youthbuild and Habitat for Humanity staff across the country who have forged such partnerships. These lessons are then distilled into eight key practices for creating and maintaining effective collaborations.
10. Shades of Green
A Green Building Guide for YouthBuild Affiliates
Eva Blake, with YouthBuild USA Green Building Initiative
This is a green-building guide for YouthBuild programs written by YouthBuild USA with the help of several YouthBuild
programs experienced in green building. Shades of Green is intended to guide readers through a wide variety of green building practices that can be integrated into a YouthBuild program’s construction and rehabilitation of affordable housing. Recognizing that YouthBuild programs are unique in their approach to construction, Shades of Green offers Sequential organization (meaning it is organized in the sequence that most of you build your homes, fom the foundation to finish-out and final landscaping), a detailed table of contents, and short and clear explanations.
There is also newly available an interactive version of Shades of Green, which covers the first few chapters of the written guide plus adds online tools and resources for local programs. Phase II of this project will be started later this year and released in 2010.
11. Synopsis of Key Research on YouthBuild
Lisa Reddy with Dorothy Stoneman
This paper contains brief summaries of demographics and outcomes from YouthBuild programs, plus key external studies conducted on YouthBuild programs since 1990, with a link to each study.
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