Developing Communities in
Partnership with Youth:

A Manual for Starting and Maintaining
Youth as Resources Program

What are the steps to starting a Youth as Resources (YAR) Program? How do you get your community ready for YAR? How do you get the funds? Find a host agency? How do you engage young people and adults from all segments of the community on a YAR board? How do youth and adults work together as equal partners on a board, appreciating the strengths that each brings to achieving common goals? And how do you empower youth to carry out community service projects of their own design? How do you involve the community and build local support? Find out the answers to these and other YAR questions in CYAR's newest publication,

Developing Communities in Partnership with Youth: A Manual for Starting and Maintaining a Youth as Resources Program.
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Published July 2001, this manual represents a collaborative effort of CYAR staff and staff of local Youth as Resources programs. This "how-to" book for YAR incorporates learnings gathered over the 14 years since the first YAR programs were established and includes the YAR program standards. Developing Communities in Partnership with Youth replaces Changing Our Course written in 1992.