Promoting Youth Involvement: Youth Advisory Council

• Tips & Tools: Youth Involvement
• YAC Applications/Announcements
• YAC Mission, Goals, By Laws, Policies & Procedures
• Other Web Resources

• CHART--Sample-Family/Youth Leaders Consultation Rates (Word)
• CHART--Youth leading now! Securing a place at the table DOs and DON'Ts (Word)
• GUIDE--Incorporating Youth Development Principles into Adolescent Health Programs: A Guide for State-Level Practitioners and Policy Makers (PDF)
• GUIDE--Youth Involvement in Systems of Care: A Guide to Empowerment (PDF)
• GUIDE--Making Space, Making Change: Profiles of Youth- led and Youth-driven Organizations, Young Wisdom Project of the Movement Strategy Center, The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund (U.S.) (PDF)
• POLICY BRIEF--Roles for Youth in Systems of Care, Research and Training Institute Family Support and Children’s Mental Health (PDF)
• ALASKA--Advisory Councils-Increase Youth Involvement in Policy Planning (Word)
• ARIZONA--YAC-The power of youth voice-YAC in community development, powerpoint in pdf format (PDF)
• Champions for Progress--Youth Involvement: Progress and Tips from States.2005 (Doc)
• HAWAII--Pamphlet: Hilopa`a Youth Advisory Council, Children with Special Needs Branch (PDF)
• HRTW Tips--What Do Youth Advisory Councils do? Ideas from 15 states who have a YAC (Word)
• HRTW Tool--Form 13A – Progress & Needs: Measuring Youth Involvement (Word)
• HRTW Tool--Form 13A – Youth Participation Checklist (Word)
• HRTW Tool--Youth As Advisors: A New Generation of Leaders, Working With Youth And Young Adults With Special Health Care Needs (PDF)
• HRTW Tool--LIST of STATES - YAC Progress 2006 (Word)
• KASA--Kids As Self Advocates: Youth As Leaders Manual (order form)
• MICHIGAN--NEWSLETTER: Early Adult Transition Task Force, Michigan Department of Community Health, Children’s Special Health Care Services (PDF)
• MICHIGAN--NEWSLETTER: Early Adult Transition Task Force, Michigan Department of Community Health, Children’s Special Health Care Services (PDF)
• PENNSYLVANIA--Tips for Successful Youth Involvement, SAMHSA Partnerships for Youth Transition Pittsburgh Project (Word)
• RHODE ISLAND--NEWSLETTER: Adolescent Leadership Council of Hasbro Children’s Hospital (PDF)
• WISCONSIN--Tips for Working with Youth, Waisman Center (Word)

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• HRTW Tool--Sample Application, Youth & Young Adult Leaders, Youth Advisory Council - or - Speakers Bureau (Word)
• KENTUCKY--Application: Youth Advisory Council Membership, KY Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs (Word)
• KENTUCKY--Application Checklist: Skills and Interests for the CCSHCN Youth Council (Word)
• PENNSYLVANIA--Recruitment Announcement: Youth Leader Representative, Pennsylvania Rehabilitation Council (PaRC) (Word)

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• ALASKA--Mission and Goals: Mayor’s Youth Advisory Council (MYAC) Upper Rural Alaska (Word)
• ALABAMA--Fact Sheet: Children’s Rehabilitation Services Youth Advisory Committee (Word)
• ALABAMA--Fact Sheet: Promoting Transition Within State Programs, Alabama’s Youth Development Program In Title V (Word)
• KENTUCKY--Fact Sheet: Youth Advisory Council and Application Process, KY Commission for Children with Special Health Care Needs (Word)
• KENTUCKY--Youth Council Membership Policies and Procedures, Kentucky Partnership For Families and Children (Word)
• MAINE--Bylaws, YEA ME Committee, Maine Children with Special Health Needs Program Youth Advisory Council (Word)
• MASSACHUSETTS--YAC Update (Summer 2006) (Word)
• NEW MEXICO--Fact Sheet: Youth Alliance (Word)
• RHODE ISLAND--Fact Sheet: Adolescent Leadership Council of Hasbro Children’s Hospital (TALC) Program Overview (Word)

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• Healthy & Ready to Work National Resource Center: Resources and tools developed by state Title V CSHCN Programs and links to other national websites.
• Kids As Self-Advocates (KASA) of Family Voices: KASA is a national, grassroots network of youth with special needs and our friends, speaking on behalf of ourselves. Link to helpful, positive information by youth for youth to increase knowledge around various issues.
• National Youth Leadership Network (NYLN): NYLN promotes leadership development, education, employment, independent living, and health and wellness among young leaders; fosters the inclusion of young leaders with disabilities into all aspects of society at national, state and local levels; communicates about issues important to youth with disabilities and the policies and practices.
• Technical Assistance Partnership for Child and Family Mental Health (TA Partnership): Resources to help communities transform the way services are delivered to children and families.
• Youth On Board: Pioneering permanent change in how society views youth. Youth on Board helps young people and adults think differently about each other so that they can work together to change their communities and schools. Links to youth resources on development

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