Positive youth development is a policy perspective that emphasizes providing services and opportunities to help all young people develop a sense of competence, usefulness, belonging and empowerment.  This framework, Five Keys to Youth Success: Unlocking the Door to Arizona’s Future (Five Keys), focuses on this perspective, and conveys the importance of investing in young people and ensuring that youth voices are heard in decisions that impact them.

Read the report here: http://gocyf.az.gov/CYD/Documents/FiveKeysWebsiteVersionLinks.pdf