Stephen Goggin
Senior Extension Associate / Youth Development Programs / Advancing Youth Development Program & Youth Voices Program
2009
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Current Activities
Current Professional Activities
Semi-retired, current activities include:
National 2009 CYFAR (Children, Youth, and Family At Risk) Conference, Baltimore, Maryland. Conference Coordination Committee, Research & Keynote Speaker Committee Co-Chair. The annual conference has a emphasis on children, youth, and family issues and is a professional development experience for 900-1,000 participants annually.
Principal Investigator (PI): Advancing Youth Development Partnership (NYS Office of Children and Family Services, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Association of NYS Youth Bureaus, ACT for Youth Center of Excellence). The Partnership supports a statewide training network for youth work professionals.
Principal Investigator (PI): Children, Youth and Family At Risk (CYFAR) Sustainability Communities CITY Project. The project involves targeted youth in community action programs located in New York City and Binghamton, NY.
Department of Human Development Extension Group
National USDA/NIFA Liaison to 6 state CYFAR projects; ongoing Advisory Group to the national program.
Current Extension Activities
I. Principal Investigator: Advancing Youth Development (AYD) Partnership with Association of New York State Youth Bureaus, New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS), and ACT for Youth Upstate Center of Excellence. Project trains youth workers and educators statewide through a train-the-trainer model using three curricula, twice annual newsletters, listserv, website www.nyayd.org, and one annual planning conference. Twenty-seven training days annually train Inter-agency teams that function in most NY counties and NYC. Annually over 750 youthworkers are trained by the Partnership. Evaluation data by the Project Evaluator in addition to New York State OCFS data demonstrate strong gains by participants in the theory and practice of youthwork.
II. Principal Investigator: Children, Youth and Families At Risk (CYFAR) CITY (Community Improvement Through Youth) Project in New York City and Broome county. Projects involve youth in community needs assessment, action planning and implimentation, website development http://nys4h.cce.cornell.edu/city/,
the development of youth/adult partnerships, training other youth using the Public Adventures curriculua, and a summer paid work experience.
III. USDA Liaison for national CYFAR Projects. Principal Investigator of contract that funds oversight and review of CYFAR projects in 6 states. Review annual reports, renewal applications, on-site visits and follow-up reports, serve on national advisory team to CYFAR. See http://www.csrees.usda.gov/nea/family/cyfar/cyfar
Biography
Biographical Statement
Senior Extension Associate, Department of Human Development. Current status: semi-retired/part-time status. Responsibilities include resource development and project management for various state and federally funded projects aimed at system-wide capacity building for youth development. Principal Investigator for contracts that (a) sustain a statewide network of professional training for youthworkers including inter-agency training teams and ongoing local community training, (b) operate two youth community action programs in Broome County and New York City that utilize youth as resources to their communities through community service, web site development, training other youth, and a summer paid work experience, and (c) provide oversight and review of USDA Children, Youth and Family At Risk (CYFAR) projects in 6 states and co-leadership for the annual CYFAR Conference. Academic expertise in adolescent development, youth program development, service learning, and related youth development topics.
Courses, Websites, Pubs
Related Websites
http://www.nyayd.org
www.cyfernet.org
www.csrees.usda.gov/nea/family/cyfar/cyfar.html
http://nys4h.cce.cornell.edu/city/