Child and Youth Development

Developmental Stages of Youth

• Understanding the Youth Development Model
  Mentoring Resource Center
  www.edmentoring.org/pubs/factsheet13.pdf
• Putting Youth Development Principles to Work in Mentoring Programs
  Mentoring Resource Center
  www.edmentoring.org/pubs/factsheet14.pdf
• A Mentor’s Guide to Youth Development
  Mentoring Resource Center
  www.edmentoring.org/pubs/factsheet15.pdf
• Tools for Mentoring Adolescents
  Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota and the Search Institute
  www.mentoringworks.org
  Includes modules on the developmental characteristics of 12-14 year olds and of 15-18 year olds.
• Online Training from the Child Trauma Academy
  http://www.childtraumaacademy.com/
  Free online courses, including: (1) The Amazing Human Brain and Human Development (discover the how’s and why’s of the human brain, and gain a better understanding of brain functioning in maltreated children); (2) Surviving Childhood: An Introduction to the Impact of Trauma (learn the physiological and psychological aspects of trauma, the effects of this trauma on our society, and how you can help); (3) The Cost of Caring: Secondary Traumatic Stress and the Impact of Working with High-Risk Children and Families; and (4) Bonding and Attachment in Maltreated Children.
• The 40 Developmental Assets
  The Search Institute
  http://www.search-institute.org/assets/
  Search Institute's 40 Developmental Assets^® are concrete, common sense, positive experiences and qualities essential to raising successful young people. These assets have the power during critical adolescent years to influence choices young people make and help them become caring, responsible adults.