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positive youth development in Colorado
is more than a framework or training it
is about building a community of
organizations across the state
committing to investing in the lives and
futures of young people one of the five
key principles of the positive youth
development framework is collaboration
and this principle is not about
collaboration with youth but
collaboration with other organizations
and adults that serve you it's about
identifying ways we can partner together
to do our best for the young people in
our state part of positive youth
development is also collaboration
between organizations within the
community that serve youth with the
library we've really expanded how we're
collaborating with other organizations
so as far as our organization we work
really closely with so many different
organizations and agencies and partners
anything from businesses to youth
serving organizations to government
agencies in youth having communities
that care organization in Jefferson
County I feel is a really terrific
support for youth we collaborate with
public health with the libraries with
the schools and offer some different
programming offering the positive youth
development training in our community we
also have partnerships with Jeffco
public schools where we work really
closely with with the schools in not
only providing internship opportunities
but for youth voice to be heard in in
our decision-making processes I learned
how Jeffco as a whole was making changes
my issue that I really resonated in was
about students having someone in the
community an adult to share and talk to
and how that in their relationship could
improve and how everyone needs it so
collaboration doesn't have to be on a
big scale project you don't have to
collaborate with
the school board or with those other
large organizations serving youth it can
also be in a small organization as well
sometimes you can think outside the box
and think can i coordinate with my local
grocery store and see how we can support
each other to serve youth in our
community the more people that are
invested in helping youth succeed in our
community the healthier our community
will be well being a seven-person
organization a seven-person statewide
organization that collaboration is
critical we're able to address a more
holistic set of needs for young people
right then give as opposed to what one
organization can do alone by working
with other organizations across the
spectrum of issues then we're able to
more meaningfully address the needs that
young people say they have there's a lot
of opportunities that our members of our
council have have had locally but
there's no way that we could have
orchestrated without the help of the
partners that that are connected with
them in their own communities whether
it's a mural or the opportunity to to
present the not prescribed lesson or
something like that there's a lot of
those opportunities that are difficult
for us to manage from a distance and so
those those partnerships I'd say that
more than just something that's helpful
they're there they're necessary for a
lot of the work that that we're able to
accomplish with with the council you
know teams aren't just concerned about
not using substances they they want to
think about how can they live a healthy
happy life and that doesn't just mean
that doesn't just mean my mental health
or what activities I'm doing or not
doing
it means everything how can I live my
best life and I think using the
collaboration of different organizations
that have different specialities allows
for teams to explore that and to dive
deeper into what matters to them and to
have support in all the areas they need
support it think about how you are
collaborating with other partners in
your community to support the young
people you work with
sometimes other partners can supplement
services that your organization doesn't
have to dive more into the collaboration
principle and learn more about the
positive youth development frameworks
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