Recruiting

Potential partners
 * Ideas and Tools for Recruiting Community Partners**
 * Benefits of participating in the study
 * 1) Opportunities for adults to listen and show caring for youth
 * 2) Better understanding of youth assets and risks in your community
 * 3) Better understanding of the impact of youth programs on youth
 * 4) Experience in conducting research with youth
 * 5) Opportunity to focus community on //positive// youth development
 * 6) Creating a first step toward a youth-adult dialogue on healthy development
 * Ideas and Tools for Recruiting Youth to the Study**
 * Benefits of participating in the study
 * 1) Opportunity to tell about yourself to adults in the community...and beyond
 * 2) Thinking about issues important to you
 * 3) Contributing to your community's awareness of youth issues and experiences
 * Assurances for the study
 * 1) ALL data is confidential--no one but the research team at Tufts will see your survey (and they will first give each survey a number, create a participant list for next year's call-backs, then separate the name-sheet and response-sheets)
 * 2) Youth names will not be associated with reports of the study--either general conclusions or specific questions
 * 3) Youth may withdraw from the study at any time
 * 4) The study is a survey of ideas and experiences, not a test