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CYD Toolkit: Trends in Creative Youth Development

Published: 2019-08-29

For the second webinar in the Creative Youth Development Learning Series, researcher Denise Montgomery of CultureThrive discussed the following five trends in CYD program development:

  • Holistic Approaches Growing as Needs Grow
  • Collaboration Across Sectors
  • New Generation of Program Staff with New Approaches
  • Scaling by Depth 
  • Establishing Creative Career Pathways

Denise was also joined by two field experts who will share their perspectives as practitioners and who will bring depth and dimension to this national conversation: Cristy Johnston Limón (Executive Director, Youth Speaks) and Shelby Williams-González (Executive Director, artworxLA)

Read the full research paper

This virtual learning series is brought to you by the Creative Youth Development National Partnership in collaboration with the Grantmakers for Education Arts Education Impact Group. One of the National Partners, Americans for the Arts, recently spearheaded the development of 7 written briefs authored by field experts as part of the first phase of a creative youth development toolkit for the field. All webinars are hosted by the National Guild for Community Arts Education and made possible by generous support from the Clare Rose Foundation.

Previous webinar: Working With Youth watch the webinar recording and read the landscape analysis paper