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Item The Minnesota Children, Youth and Families At Risk Project: Impact Report 2009(University of Minnesota Extension, 2009) Skuza, Jennifer; Tzenis, Joanna; Sheldon, TimothyThe Minnesota CYFAR Sustainable Communities Project is focused on strengthening the ability of middle school aged youth to set and achieve short and long-term educational goals by using an innovative and organic afterschool program model that is highly experiential. The aim of the program is to help youth own their learning by igniting their interest in education and to work with parents and guardians to support them in their role as their child's first educator. This impact report describes the program model and the educational resources we used to develop it. It also highlights some of the promising early results, along with the resources developed during the project’s first year. There are also find descriptions of the communities, youth, and parents this project serves.Item The Minnesota Children, Youth, and Familes at Risk Project: Impact Report 2010(Regents of the University of Minnesota, 2010) Skuza, Jennifer; Sheldon, Timothy; Sheehan, Trish; Tzenis, JoannaThe Minnesota CYFAR Sustainable Communities Project is focused on strengthening the ability of middle school aged youth to set and achieve short and long-term educational goals by using an innovative and organic afterschool program model that is highly experiential. The aim of the program is to help youth own their learning by igniting their interest in education to to work with parents and guardians to support them in their role as their child's first educator. This reports features the impact from the second year of the project whereby sixty-nine youth and seventy-one parents and guardians participated.Item The Minnesota Children, Youth, and Families at Risk Project: Impact Report 2011(University of Minnesota Extension, 2011) Skuza, Jennifer; Tzenis, Joanna; Sheldon, Timothy; Pierson Russo, JessicaThe Minnesota CYFAR Sustainable Communities Project is focused on strengthening the ability of middle school aged youth to set and achieve short and long-term educational goals by using an innovative and organic afterschool program model that is highly experiential. The aim of the program is to help youth own their learning by igniting their interest in education to to work with parents and guardians to support them in their role as their child's first educator. This reports presents the evaluation results and demonstrates the impact that the Minnesota CYFAR Sustainable Communities Project has had on youth participants during its third year.