Colorado
ACY is a nonprofit organization that supports adults in raising healthy young people.
ACY combines the most current research with time-tested knowledge about what it takes to build a strong community and to create positive, long-lasting change for children, youth, and families.
ACY works with partners and clients to build the types of environments that help children and young people thrive.
ACY is a leader in creating practical tools and resources for individuals, organizations, and communities in Colorado and the nation.
ACY’s presentations, training, follow-up coaching, technical assistance, and practical, culturally-competent resources strengthen the way adults live and work with youth.
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Connecting Cultures through the Developmental Assets
How do you bring the asset message to members of your community who don’t speak English? This is a question that Colorado’s statewide Healthy Communities • Healthy Youth initiative, Assets for Colorado Youth, has been trying to answer since 1997.
Assets for Colorado Youth (ACY) started as a grant-making organization, giving money to community groups who had creative ideas using the Developmental Assets framework. ACY focused their efforts on communities with large ethnic minority groups across Colorado and much of their early learning came from these communities.
“Colorado has a growing non-English-speaking population who speak many different languages, but our biggest success has been with the Spanish-speaking population,” says Assets for Colorado Youth executive director Stephanie Hoy.MORE
Culture and the Conference: Keynote Speaker Dr. Maria Guajardo
As the child of Mexican immigrants, a Harvard graduate, and the Executive Director of the Denver Mayor’s Office for Education and Children, Dr. Maria Guajardo has been a navigator of cultures her entire life. Growing up in labor camps for migrant workers, she found that it was important for her to understand the role that both education and culture played in her life.MORE
