About APYD

The Alliance for Positive Youth Development is a national platform that allows for networking and professional development for youth serving professionals, ongoing assessment of youth needs and significant increased positive outcomes for youth led by The SISGI Group though 2024.

The outcomes of the APYD focus on developing a strategic platform to address the needs and development of young people. We are collecting and sharing best practices from across the country with parents, practitioners, community leaders, youth leaders, policymakers and educators.

The goal of this initiative is to raise awareness and bring to scale, effective strategies for sustainable positive youth impacts that create a GOLDEN© generation.

We focus on 6 strategies of Youth Empowerment:

G- Giving Back

O- Open to differences

L- loving yourself unconditionally

D – Defending against oppression

E – Empowering yourself and others

N – Never Giving Up

Join us for the Annual Best Practices for Youth Conference August 6-10 2012!

Learn More about the APYD by viewing our information presentation below. Use the arrows to navigate through the information.

To get involved, you can join an APYD Taskforce in your your state or  join the mailing list in the right column. We also hope you will connect with us on social media by liking our Facebook Page and Following us on Twitter to get up to date information.