Pathways for Success

Our commitment to child and youth thriving is central to relationship-building and collaboration across organizations, schools, and institutions.

We are proud to partner with many groups in our region to help provide tangible opportunities for young people to become personally connected with this work and each other. With a hands-on learning focus, our goal is to support all youth, amplify their voices, and to help connect them to resources and experiences that will strengthen their self-confidence and leadership skills.

This initiative creates a curated path of opportunities throughout the school year. Through this ongoing connection, continuous conversation, and purposeful union of young people from urban, suburban, and rural areas, a dedicated space will emerge for a growing network of young leaders.

Students Connect, Learn, and Grow

The youth leadership programming offers a variety of activities for students including facilitating and participating in small group discussions, creating and implementing projects (both local and regional), and sharing their accomplishments in public presentations. These opportunities are open to partner schools, organizations and individual youth who want to get involved. Together, we are working towards positive outcomes in the areas of influencing youth attitudes and skills, increasing future orientation, and expanding youth participation in civic engagement.

Ongoing Opportunities

The Pittsburgh Study offers additional tools for Youth Leadership Activities and Skills Building. To learn more, contact pghstudy@pitt.edu

LIGHT Education Initiative is a K-12 youth-led, humanitarian-centered education initiative built on a foundation of Holocaust remembrance with a mission to inspire, prepare, and empower the next generation of humanitarians. Contact Nick Haberman for details on how to get involved, nicholas.haberman@aiu3.net.

Youth Leadership in Action This curriculum includes up to eight two-hour sessions on skill-building for youth participating in action research.

Creating Peace is a curriculum focused on strengthening the skills of young leaders who want to play an active role in racial and gender justice. It’s delivered through twelve two-hour sessions.

Youth Research Advisory Board Youth who participate as members of the Advisory Board are paid to advise investigators and scientists on conducting research with adolescents. Involvement includes attending monthly meetings and events.

Youth Data Literacy Program This hands-on, immersive curriculum focuses on critical thinking and analysis by building a competency for how to understand, use, interpret, and translate data. This curriculum is delivered over six two-hour sessions.

Youth Violence Prevention Curricula Encompassing a variety of prevention programs for middle school and high school age youth, this content focuses on healthy relationships, collective healing, communications, and other skills building.