Description of the Excellence in Youth Development Award:
This annual award recognizes excellence in projects that focus on youth recognition using a youth development model. The award is being implemented as a result of the successful 2003 National Youth Development through Recreation Services Symposium held in Calgary.
Selection Criteria:
The principles of youth development (youth ages 12 to 18) and recreation are the basis of the criteria, and must reflect the following requirements: the project's focus must be youth recreation; the project could be a partnership or involve a collaboration of organizations and agencies involved with youth; one member of the partnership must be an ARPA member; and youth, themselves, must be directly involved in the planning/decision making of the project.
Main components of the application:
- Profile of the program/project
- Description of how the principles of youth development were incorporated into the program/project
- List of the organizations that collaborated on the program/project
- Description of how the youth were empowered to be involved with the project
- Testimonial from a youth participant of the program/project (max 250 words)
- 2 letters of reference supporting the nomination