Patrick Jones

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• Patrick Jones
• www.connectingya.com

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Connecting Young Adults and LibrariesPatrick
Joneshttp//www.connectingya.comGetting started

• HOW?
• Lecture
• Handouts
• Active Learning
• Peer Learning
• Question and answer
• Applying

• WHO?
• Audience
• Customers / students
• Presenter
• WHAT Objectives
• WHEN?
• WHERE?

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WHAT OBJECTIVES

• Review the core issues and values in providing
  services to teens
• Examine ten trends shaping services to teens in
  the 21st century
• Understand the bridges and barriers to success
  with young adult readers
• Develop a YAattitude and think about teen
  services in a fresh way

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Where you stand, depends on where you sit-
(exercise 1)

• Divide into pairs
• Introduce yourself and your position in the
  library
• Complete this sentence. The thing that
  aggravates me most about working with YAs is
• The thing I like best and WHY?
• How do we increase the good and reduce the bad?
• What do we accept, redirect, and terminate?

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ten core values

• Youth development

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ten core values

• Developmental needs.

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The Developmental Needs of Teenagers

• Physical Activity
• 2. Competence and Achievement
• 3. Self-Definition
• 4. Creative Expression
• 5. Positive Social Interaction with Peers and
  Adults
• 6. Structure and Clear Limits
• 7. Meaningful Participation

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Access Unchained (exercise 2)

• Remember
• Accept
• Project

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ten core values

• Developmental assets

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ten core values

• Developmental assets are the building blocks of
  young peoples successful growth and development
• The more assets young people have, the more
  likely they are to grow up healthy and become
  competent caring adults.

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ten core values

• Assets promote actions (aka thriving behaviors)
• Succeeding in school
• Helping others
• Valuing diversity
• Maintaining good health
• Resisting danger
• Exhibiting leadership
• Delaying gratification
• Overcoming adversity

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ten core values

• The more assets a young person has, the less
  likely he/she is to
• Use drugs or alcohol
• Smoke or chew
• Vandalize
• Get into trouble
• Choose violence
• Skip school
• Become depressed/suicidal
• Become sexually active

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ten core values

• Youth advocacy

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ten core values

• Youth participation

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TEEN ADVISORY GROUPS
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Spring Into Song Karaoke
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Book Discussion Group
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TUTORING
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TEENS AND TYKES
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TAPPING TEEN CREATIVITY
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SPECIAL PROJECTS
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ten core values

• Collaboration

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Connecting Young Adults and LibrariesPatrick
Joneshttp//www.connectingya.com

• PARTNERSHIP ROLES
• COMMUNICATIVE
• COOPERATIVE
• COLLOBRATIVE

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ten core values

• Information literacy
• Teen Tech Week Mini Grants
• (www.ala.org/yalsa)

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• Information literacy is youth development in
  action

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ten core values

• Adolescent literacy
• www.ala.org/yalsa

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ten core values

• Learning and achievement

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ten core values

• Texas
• Pennsylvania
• Colorado
• Alaska
• Georgia
• Illinois

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• Reading ability is positively correlated with the
  extent to which students read recreationally.
  -National Center for Education Statistics.

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ten core values

• Equity of access /intellectual freedom

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Connecting Young Adults and LibrariesPatrick
Joneshttp//www.connectingya.com

• Consulting, training, and coaching for providing
  powerful youth services including library card
  campaigns and web projects
• patrick_at_connectingYA.com