Main Pages of the Albion Youth Site:

Also visit our Albion Calendars Page
and our Family Events page.

The long-term positive youth development outcomes around which all of CPAY's planning actions are keyed are:

Economic self-sufficiency

Healthy family and social relationships

Community involvement

In fact, actual youth programming is only a part of what we're doing with the grant funding.

We are:
Working to implement all three KYIP blueprint strategies to attain the ultimate outcomes for the youth of Albion:

Increase the number and quality of gap activities,
Strengthen capacities of community adults and families to provide supports and opportunities for youth, and
Strengthen community organizational supports related to youth.

Networking to eliminate duplication of efforts and competition for the same kids and documenting programs and resources in a Youth Yellow Pages
Using a geo-mapping process to identify youth not currently involved in positive youth development activities and utilizing that data to expand their opportunities
Sharing strengths, experience, knowledge (i.e. on proper volunteer screening methods) to build capacity in Albion's youth-serving organizations and collaborating on volunteer recruitment and training efforts
Developing meaningful opportunities for youth civic engagement
Assisting smaller and emerging programs
Reducing transportation challenges with the availability of a CPAY van (housed and maintained by the City)
Obtaining, analyzing, and sharing data on the developmental assets possessed by Albion's 7th through 11th graders (collected via a research-based surveying program through the Search Institute) and
working to have a youth asset-building program adopted throughout Albion
Preparing a detailed report (including precinct-based geo-mapping) on the "State of Albion's Youth" to present to Albion' city council.
Incorporating the America's Promise "Five Promises" program into our work, thanks to the addition to the community of an America's Promise Fellow through the Points of Light Foundation and the Albion Volunteer Service Organization.

Research has revealed that the "gap" time in a youth's day -- that time when she or he is not in school -- is their most vulnerable to negative influences.

CPAY

WHAT:

A collaborative network for providers of youth development programming in Albion, with a particular focus on building assets in Albion's kids by engaging them in positive out-of-school-time activities.

WHO:

CPAY welcomes any and all youth programming providers or other interested parties to join us "at the table" any time.

Current participants include:

Albion College Youth Initiative
Albion Community Foundation
Albion Middle School Collaborative
Albion Middle School Brighter Futures
Albion Public Library/Children's Room
Albion Public Schools Youth Art On-Line
Albion Volunteer Service Organization
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Blazers Track Club
Boy Scout Troop 158 and Troop172
City of Albion/Recreation Dept.
Crowell School Health Center
Grace Temple's Character Education Program
Grace Temple's Tutoring and Mentoring Program
Junior Achievement of So. Central MI
Kids 'N' Stuff
Minority Program Services Inc.
MSU Extension/4H
National Youth Sports Program at Albion College
New Hope Worship Center Club Oneighty

Links are to the Albion Youth Web Directory information first if we have information available. If we do not, then the link will go from here directly to the organization's main web site for now.

WHEN:

This collaboration was formed in Spring 2000 to make decisions on how an impending grant to Albion from the Kellogg Youth Initiatives Partnership (an offshoot of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation) could best be used for the benefit of the youth of our community.

The Albion Community Foundation, administrator for the local KYIP grant, convened the first CPAY business meeting, which is now held on the second Thursday of each month at 9 a.m. Recently, a more informal luncheon gathering on the first Monday of each month has been added.

For more information or a schedule, please contact Michelle Mueller at the ACF at
517-629-3349.

WHY:

Research has revealed that the "gap"time in a youth's day -- that time when she or he is not in school -- is their most vulnerable to negative influences.

KYIP developed a five-year Blueprint for Positive Youth Development in Calhoun County after 14 months of input from county-wide leaders and experts, and in 2000 made eight grants to begin the implementation of the blueprint in the county. Albion received the largest grant, and the CPAY collaborative is being held up as a model for the rest of the county.

It is CPAY's pledge, however, that it will not disband with the end of the Kellogg money, but will continue to strive toward its goal of building long-term sustainability for positive youth development programming here in our community.

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This project was made possible by a grant from the Youth Advisory Committee,
and the Youth Media Bureau which are both funded by the Albion Community Foundation.

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