New England Network for Child, Youth & Family Services





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YOUTH IMPACT
a Capacity-Building Project
Improving Opportunities
for Youth in Windham County, Vt.

'ON-DEMAND' WEBINARS:
AFFORDABLE, NO-TRAVEL TRAINING

Webinars, a combination conference call and interactive web presentation, are an increasingly popular, low-cost way to receive small-group training on targeted issues without the inconvenience of travelling. This month NEN introduces 'on-demand' webinars — one-hour webinars that have already taken place and can now be viewed in their entirety whenever you choose. Each includes a web-based visual presentation and accompanying sound recording from the original event. To view any of these webinars, click on the title and you will be prompted through the payment process; afterward, you will be emailed a link.

View the Webinar Catalog

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'LOTS MORE POSITIVE ATTITUDE':
WHAT YOUNG PEOPLE SAY AND SEE IN ONE RURAL COUNTY

 NEN has just released a new report describing youth life in Windham County, Vermont, where we are doing capacity-building work to improve youth development and reduce violence. The report presents survey findings and the results of a youth 'Photovoice' project in the county — an effort that we hope will inspire coalitions in other places setting out to understand the hopes and fears of young people in their own communities.

See the report.
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NEN ROUNDTABLE:
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE 'HIGH IMPACT'

 In this, our third in a series of NEN Roundtable discussions, we ask four female leaders what it takes to run a 'high-impact' nonprofit, using as a starting point an influential recent article from the Stanford Social Innovation Review. The article took a close look at 12 successful nonprofits and asked what they had in common, and which pieces of conventional wisdom they flouted. The authors identified six 'myths of nonprofit management' and six practices that all 12 successful organizations shared.

Read the Roundtable discussion.

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HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE IN PLACES
WHERE IT REALLY TAKES A VILLAGE

Transitional living programs (TLPs) located in rural areas have one of the toughest jobs in child welfare: connecting disadvantaged and sometimes troubled young people with services and opportunities that may barely exist. 'Surviving to Thriving,' a needs assessment of Vermont's federally funded TLP system, looks at promising practices in rural programming for youth, and makes recommendations that can easily be generalized to Maine, New Hampshire, western Massachusetts, and other rural pockets of the country.
See the report.

WHAT CAN A MEMBERSHIP
ORGANIZATION DO FOR YOU?

When you decide to join or renew your membership with NEN, you can be sure of this: We don’t waste resources duplicating the products and services you already receive from your state and/or national associations. As a regional entity focused on advancing the field through professional development and research, we work with those groups but don’t want to replace them.

Instead, we provide a menu of services that is nearly unique in our field: customized training and consultation in key areas of program and organizational development; cash and resources to members through joint fundraising, mini-grants, and collaborative grant submissions; and inclusion in research projects that inform practice and policy and have maximum impact on the field. We pull community partners together and build their capacity to work together effectively, and we review and synthesize information to produce original and relevant original publications. In short, we help you be better at what you do, in every way we can think of.

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