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CNYD works primarily with youth serving organizations and youth workers in the San Francisco Bay Area and with school-based after school programs throughout California. Check the Our Work section for a more detailed description of what we do.

Our Work

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CNYD does not currently work directly with youth, although everyone on our staff has had substantial experience working directly with youth in other contexts. We do, however, work directly with the people who staff all types of youth organizations. Our purpose is to provide support to youth workers and youth-serving organizations so that they can provide high quality programs to the young people they serve. You can check our Training and Events section to learn more about the workshops and other resources we offer to youth service providers or try the Resources section for a look at the tools we have developed for people who work with youth.

Training and Events
Resources

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CNYD provides a wide range of youth development training and capacity building opportunities, including training workshops, speaker's forums, the Youth Development Learning Network and consulting services to youth workers and youth serving agencies, both community-based and publicly-sponsored, in the Bay Area. CNYD also provides facilitation support and resources to the Bay Area Youth Development Peer Network. Please see our Training and Events pages for more information.

We provide training and support to over 1900 youth workers at Regional Learning Centers throughout the state of California in partnership with the California After School Partnership. Serving as demonstration sites for quality after-school programming, the Regional Learning Centers serve over 36,000 youth daily. Please see the Partnerships section for more information about CNYD's state-wide work with after-school programs.

Training and Events
Partnerships

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A youth development intermediary organization is one that offers support, training and capacity building to youth-serving organizations and youth workers. It strives to strengthen programs and services for youth by providing workers and organizations with a practical link to research being done in the field. It also provides a forum for communication between funders and policy-makers and the people and agencies doing the daily work with young people. Finally, it provides an arena for discussion and sharing among the entire youth service providers community so that decisions can be made with a wider perspective and resources can be used efficiently and wisely.

Underlying all our work as an intermediary organization at CNYD is the goal of bringing the youth development approach to every level of programming and decision-making for youth. Refer to the Our Approach section of the website for more detail about the youth development approach.

Our Approach

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The Community Network for Youth Development (CNYD) and youth development researchers, Drs. Michelle Gambone and Jim Connell created the Youth Development Framework in partnership with youth development agencies and funders in the San Francisco Bay Area. See the Our Approach section for more detail about the Youth Development Framework.

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