Promoting Adolescent Health is a new initiative focusing on sexuality, HIV/AIDS, and risk behaviors among youth. Initiative goals include convening faculty from across campus, developing a training program in adolescent health, increasing funding for graduate education, and strengthening undergraduate training.
For more information, please contact Dr. Stephen T. Russell at strussell@arizona.edu .
Professional Development
5 Keys for Youth Success: Unlocking the Door to Arizona's Future
Arizona Governor Napolitano releases framework for action for youth development, a report led by Dr. Lynne Borden in Family Studies and Human Development.
Building Partnerships for Youth
Building Partnerships for Youth (BPY), is a collaboration between National 4-H Council and the
University of Arizona's Frances McClelland Institute for Children Youth and Families with support
from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Division of Adolescent and School Health.
The program provides capacity-building assistance to organizations throughout the country that
serve youth and families, to help them integrate positive youth development approaches into existing
policies and practices. BPY helps organizations, states and communities work together to promote the
health and well-being of young people ages 9-13. The project is currently targeting state level societal
institutions that influence youth behavior in four different arenas of young people's lives: education,
health, faith-based, and voluntary youth serving organizations.
The Building Partnerships for Youth project provides information and support through the BPY website which receives approximately 100,000 hits per year, and through trainings, workshops, webinars and the facilitation of new collaborations and partnerships.
For more information on the Building Partnerships for Youth project, please contact Leslie Langbert langbert@email.arizona.edu
On May 9, 2007, BPY presented a 7½-hour pilot workshop in Phoenix, Arizona, which consisted of didactic presentations, interactive discussions, and networking activities to state- and regional-level representatives from organizations that work with young people. Feedback from the pilot workshop was used to develop the model for the Spotlighting Positive Youth Development Professional Development Opportunity, which was launched nationwide in February 2008.
Understanding and Supporting Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Youth
This curriculum was designed for 1-day trainings for youth services professionals. It provides a basic overview for
understanding and supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth. Topics include physical and emotional health,
identity development (coming out), and key supports in the lives of LGBT youth (schools, families and peers).
Participants will develop an understanding of important issues facing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender youth.
They will also learn about resources to help them provide support to these young people and their families.
This curriculum has been peer-reviewed by USDA CSREES CYFERNet
Adolescent Health and Development
This curriculum was designed for 1-day trainings for youth services professionals. Basic developmental challenges of
adolescence are presented as background for understanding critical issues in adolescent health. Key topics include
emotional health (depression, suicide, eating disorders and self-esteem), emerging sexuality (sexual development,
behavior and identity), and risk behavior (substance use and abuse, and delinquency). Participants will develop an
understanding of adolescent development, health and health risk issues and strategies for working with youth and
their caretakers.
For more information, and to receive a full electronic copy of the curricula, contact:
Stephen T. Russell, PhD
Associate Professor
Institute for Children, Youth, and Families
Division of Family Studies and Human Development
The University of Arizona
Email: strussell@arizona.edu
Phone: 520.621.1231