Tools and Resources

Assembled here are a selection of curated resources and tools for use in deepening knowledge in the designated areas and for developing program strategies and content. New resources will be added so check back regularly. And if you have tools and resources you recommend, please send them to AFCOST, Attn: Chaylin Johnson, chaylin@cambridgema.gov.  ​
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Youth Development

• The Search Institute
  
• ​Youth.gov
  
• Act for Youth
  
• Youth Power
  
• Mass Cultural Council Creative Youth Development

Social Emotional Development

• War, Crisis, Tragedy: How to talk with kids when the news is scary
  
• Link to Positive Behavior Support TED Talk by Rosemarie Allen
• I Won't Learn from You by Herbert Kohl
• Rebuilding for a New Normal, recent report published by the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Partnership for Resilience, emphasized that the continued impact of living through the pandemic is creating high levels of emotional stress for youth and families. 

• The Impact of Social and Emotional Learning
• ​The Future of Healing: Shifting from trauma-informed care to healing centered engagement
• The Case for SEL Slides from the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
• RULER Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence

Equity and Access

• A glossary of racial equity definitions
• ​Take Your School Reform to White Kids So They Don’t Grow Up to Kill Black People
• What anti-racists teachers do differently
• Rethinking and updating hidden disability language
• Common pitfalls of anti-racism work
• Dear anti-racist allies: Here's how to respond to microaggressions 
• 5 Microaggressions You Might Be Committing Without Realizing It
• Video: How Can We Win - Kimberly Latrice Jones
• Video: Golden Girls
• What It Means to Be an Anti-Racist Organization 
• I'm White and outraged by Ahmaud Arbery's murder now what
• White Supremacy Culture at work
• Diversity is a dangerous set up
• Your Performative Empathy Does Not Equate To Justice For Black Lives

• John A. Powell podcast - Opening to the Question of Belonging 
• ​Black Female Executives Explore Intersectional Invisibility & How to Overcome It
• How to Become A Less Biased Version of Yourself 
• NZ Schoolgirl Spoken Word Poem - article
• Link to the full poem performance 
• How systems are failing Black Girls
• Gender Unicorn from Trans Student Educational Resources ​
• Queer Undefined
• What It's Like to Be Intersex
• Transgender at 11: Listening to Jazz Jennings | 20/20 | ABC News​
• Miss Representation 
• Mask You Live in
• True Colors United
• The Impact of COVID-19 on the LGBTQI Movement 
• Parents for Transgender Equality National Council
• "Calvin" Children's Book - Globe Article (Nov 2021)

Family Engagement

• Stories of Family Partnership Facilitators' Guide
• Connect Home and School with the Family Story Project (Scholastic)
• ​Global Family Research Project
• ​Cultivating a Community of Champions for Children Through Transformative Family Engagement, Kellogg Foundation Report
• Dual Capacity-Building Framework for Family-School Partnerships by Dr.  Karen Mapp

Program Design

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• Redesigning and Aligning 
• STEAM@Home Resources
• ​Why Do Leaves Change Color in the Fall?

Leadership and Management

• Using Social Emotional Learning for Employee Development (article) 

Self-Care and Well Being

• ​www.activeminds.org/about-mental-health/self-care/
• Self-Care for Professionals and Mentors
• Resources to Support Youth Worker Burnout
• Why we all need to practice emotional first aid
• How to make the shift from indulging problems to creating possibilities 
• The Four Pivots:  Reimagining Justice, Reimagining Ourselves podcast 
• Free Mindfulness Project ​

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