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Competency Area IV: Relationship to Family and Community
List of Competencies
Note: The letter "D" indicates a competency specific to youth with disabilities
IV.1 Ability to engage and build relationships with family members or other significant persons
Learning Objectives
- IV.1.1 Facilitate and support collaborative relationships with family members or other significant persons in a youth's life
Selected Activities
- Develop a needs assessment for family members or other significant persons
- List and describe suggestions that could help meet the needs of family members or other significant persons
Demonstration of Learning - Show What You Know!
- Based on your organizational demographics and needs develop a support plan for family members or other significant persons
Resources Developed by NCWD/Youth and Partners
Other Resources
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IV.2 Ability to connect youth to community institutions, resources, and supportive adults including mentors and role models
Learning Objectives
- IV.2.1 Provide for and ensure youth connections with community institutions, resources, and supportive adult mentors and role models
Selected Activities
- List and describe current community resources available to youth that you work with
- Describe means to acquire adult mentors, and describe the role these mentors will serve (i.e., reading, tutoring, special programs) and what criteria you require
- Research and identify mentoring strategies that other, similar organizations have found to be successful
Demonstration of Learning - Show What You Know!
- Create an instructional guide for adult mentors
Resources Developed by NCWD/Youth and Partners
Other Resources
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IV.3 Ability to engage youth in community service and leadership activities
Learning Objectives
- IV.3.1 Facilitate and support collaborative engagement of youth in community service and leadership activities
Selected Activities
Demonstration of Learning - Show What You Know!
- Prepare a matrix that describes program possibilities for your organization which would address ideas to help engage youth in community service and leadership activities
- Successful completion of Activity Two - Microsoft Word
 , engaging a group of youth in a service learning project
Resources Developed by NCWD/Youth and Partners
Other Resources
- Afterschool Alliance (n.d.).
- Arts & After School Youth Development Resources.
- Connect for Kids (2005).
- Gootman, J.A. eds. (2000). After-School Programs that Promote Child and Adolescent Development: Summary of a Workshop.
- Jastrzab, J., Blomquist, J., Masker, J., Orr, L. (1997). Youth Corps: Promising Strategies for Young People and their Communiites.
 21 November, 2006e, MA: Abt Associates, Inc.
- Youth Today (n.d.). American Youth Work Center Youth Today.
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IV.4.Ability to involve families, guardians, and advocates (when appropriate), including connections to disability-specific resources and groups
Learning Objectives
- IV.4.1 Facilitate and support collaborative engagement of youth in community service and leadership activities with appropriate families, guardians, and advocates, including connections to disability-specific resources and groups
Selected Activities
- Take the NCDW/Youth tutorial
- Explore several collaborative family/community engagement strategies and programs, and then list the advantages/disadvantages of these programs as they apply to your organizational needs
Demonstration of Learning - Show What You Know!
- Prepare a matrix that describes program possibilities for your organization which would address ideas to help facilitate collaborative engagement of families, guardians, and advocates in community service/ leadership activities including connections to disability-specific resources and groups
Resources Developed by NCWD/Youth and Partners
Other Resources
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IV.5.D Knowledge of family advocacy, support and community resources, including disability-specific resources and organizations
Learning Objectives
- IV.5.D.1 List and describe specific examples of family advocacy, support and community resources, including disability-specific resources and organizations
Selected Activities
Demonstration of Learning - Show What You Know!
- Create a WebQuest for family advocacy
Resources Developed by NCWD/Youth and Partners
Other Resources
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IV.6.D Ability to match youth with disabilities with appropriate mentors and role models with and without disabilities
Learning Objectives
- IV.6.D.1 List and describe strategies that help enable you to match youth with disabilities with appropriate mentors and role models with and without disabilities
Selected Activities
- List and describe current community mentors available to youth with disabilities that you serve
Demonstration of Learning - Show What You Know!
- Prepare a matrix to acquire adult mentors (with/without disabilities), describing the role these mentors will serve (i.e., reading, tutoring, special programs), what criteria you require and how these mentors will be matched to youth with disabilities
Resources Developed by NCWD/Youth and Partners
Other Resources
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