Partnership Resource Library

Publications

Building Community: A Tool Kit for Youth and Adult in Charting Assets and Creating Change, 2001: The Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development and the National 4-H Council equips youth and adult facilitators with a framework and specific tools to identify community assets, inspire action, promote partnerships between and among youth and adults, and more.

Improving the Health of Adolescents & Young Adults: A Guide for States and Communities, 2004: A companion publication to Healthy People 2010, the document helps guide state and local agencies and organizations through public health processes that address adolescent health and safety issues.

Partnership FAQs, Neighborhood Networks: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (U.S. HUD) answers common questions about partnership building from community and resident perspectives.

Partnership Questions and Answers: The U.S. Department of Interior (U.S. DOI) provides its questions and answers on collaboration.

Publications on Positive Youth Development: The Administration for Children & Families (ACF) provides links to positive youth development documents.

Strategies for Success, Combating Juvenile DUI: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) provides information on partnership building as part of its publication, Strategies for Success: Combating Juvenile DUI.

Tips for Neighborhood Meetings and Neighborhood Organization List U.S. HUD’s Neighborhood Networks program offers important tools on how to make partnerships stronger.

Thirteen Strategies for Engaging the Community: The U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance provides information on building partnerships from a criminal justice perspective.

Links

Ideas for Developing Partnerships with Community Colleges: The U.S. Department of Labor (U.S. DOL) supplies specific tips for partnering with workforce communities and community colleges.

Multiple Education Pathways: The U.S. DOL supplies information about its Multiple Education Pathways programs which provide alternative education opportunities for youth.

National Community Anti-Drug Coalition Institute: Funded through ONDCP and SAMHSA, supplies information on effective partnership building.

Office of Tribal Justice: The U.S. Department of Justice provides tribal-specific information about grant and funding opportunities, public safety and law enforcement, publications and statistical studies, and other information.

Parents@Work Partners Program: The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy makes it easy to share teen drug prevention information with working parents and other adult caregivers.

Partnership Resource Center: The U.S. Forest Service and the National Forest Foundation supply online resources to build vibrant partnerships and effective collaboration to support the nation's forests, grasslands, and other special places.

Partnership Tools: The U.S. Department of the Interior‘s (DOI) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) provides resources to help BLM employees and interested members of the public build and sustain partnerships.

Safe Communities Service Center: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) provides best practices, articles, product information, and “quick clicks” on making communities safer.

You Drink. You Drive. You Lose Campaign materials: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) supplies information on building partnerships to building partnerships to prevent impaired driving.

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