Community Youth Mapping (CYM)

This program has been successfully used across the United States to engage youth and adults in community development and change. The process begins with youth trained to collect data that help to provide a comprehensive look at existing community resources. The resulting CYM database highlights resource availability and gaps in a community and serves as a basis for organizing community change. Community Youth Mapping is a youth development strategy instituted by the AED Center for Youth Development and Policy Research. It is ideally coordinated by a local public/private/nonprofit partnership and led by a local community-based institution.