TITLE Planning for Youth Success: Resource and Training Manual. Connecting Schools, Families, and Communities for Youth

This manual is designed to assist facilitators working with members of a school community in forming or strengthening partnerships that will promote greater success for their youth. Participants can identify characteristics that are most important for youth to be successful in their community, consider ways to determine that students are developing these characteristics, identify resources and assets in the community that will help youth develop them, and plan and implement a project to promote these characteristics. Five presentation topics include: (1) "Introduction," getting acquainted, creating community networks, and introducing key points; (2) "Defining Youth Success, " answering the questions "How do we define youth success? " and "What aspects of youth success are critical for us? " (3) "Measuring Youth Success, " exploring ways to measure youth success; (4