Youth and Community Development

About Youth Development

Youth development is defined as the ongoing process in which all young people are engaged and invested. Through positive youth development opportunities, young people meet basic personal and social needs and build competencies necessary for successful adolescent and adult life. It is an approach, framework, a way to think about young people that focuses on their capacities, strengths, and developmental needs rather than on their weaknesses and problems.

About Community Development

One aspect of community development includes providing groups and individuals with the skills they need to affect change in their own communities.

Available Workshops, Resources, and Technical Assistance

We offer a wide array of youth and community development workshops on topics such as:

Effectively working with teen volunteers
Fostering youth-adult partnerships
Engaging teens as cross-age teachers
Fostering service-learning
Developing leadership skills
Planning age appropriate activities
Managing groups of children
Promoting science literacy
Promoting language literacy
Facilitating and recording meetings
Moderating, recording and convening community forums

For more information:

Shelley Murdock, M.Ed., Youth Development Advisor

swmurdock@ucdavis.edu

925-646-6124