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Assets Coming Together (ACT) for Youth is a New York State Department of Health initiative that integrates prevention strategies and builds youth developmental assets for young people aged 10-19. Funded projects focus on the prevention of abuse, violence, and risky sexual behaviors and demonstrate the effectiveness of community-based partnerships and collaborations to promote positive youth development. The ACT initiative also creates two Centers of Excellence: one located upstate and the other located downstate, to help guide communities and the state toward youth development approaches and policies. In response to the ACT initiative, Cornell University has formed a partnership with the University of Rochester Division of Adolescent Medicine and the New York State Center for School Safety to serve as the Upstate Center of Excellence (UCE). This partnership brings together professionals with expertise in child and adolescent development and health issues, school safety and violence prevention, program development and evaluation, training and community collaboration. The UCE serves as a resource center for community development partnerships (CDP's) in the following counties: Albany/Schenectady/Rensselaer, Cattaraugus, Erie, Jefferson, Onondaga, and Otsego. The UCE supports these communities in their efforts to promote positive youth development and to prevent abuse, violence, and risky sexual behaviors among youth by providing the following: Training and technical assistance for program development and evaluation; state of the art research on youth development and health issues; information on effective prevention programs grounded in social/behavioral science; training and technical assistance in community development. Principal Investigator: Stephen Hamilton Project Director: Jane Powers |
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