On the Listservs page, you will find lively, interactive forums about youth development. Discussions are sent via email. Descriptions of how to apply to each are included below.

Promising Practices in Afterschool (PPAS) - This listserv brings together the worlds of youth development, school-age care, and education. On the PPAS website, www.afterschool.org , you can search for promising practices and share your own good work with others to help build the field of afterschool. To subscribe, click here.

Innovate - INNOVATE is a lively email discussion group where young leaders and youth workers can share resources, ideas, and opinions about positive youth development and community development. INNOVATE is sponsored by the Innovation Center for Community and Youth Development. To send a message to this list, send an email to innovate@iclist.org (you must be a member of INNOVATE to post messages to this list. To join, send a blank email message to subscribe-innovate@iclist.org ).

Peer Helping Listserv - From the National Peer Helpers Association , this listserv "connects you to peer helpers from across the country and world and keeps you apprised of the happenings within state peer helping associations and the National Peer Helpers Association." To subscribe, send an e-mail to peerhelping-subscribe@eGroups.com .

SAC-L - This school-age care discussion list is sponsored by the National Institute on Out-of-School Time and the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education (ERIC/EECE). It's designed for those interested in school-age care planning, resources, activities, funding, staff and staff development, and related subjects. To subscribe to SAC-L, send a one-line e-mail (with no subject in the subject line) to listserv@postoffice.cso.uiuc.edu ; the message should read: subscribe SAC-L [your first name] [your last name] . If you have any questions or problems, contact the list administrator at LISTADMN@ericps.crc.uiuc.edu .

UCYD Listserv - A part of Search Institute's Uniting Congregations for Youth Development initiative, the UCYD Listserv focuses on asset building in congregations. To subscribe to the list, send an e-mail message to majordomo@search-institute.org . Leave the subject line blank, and in the body of the message, write only subscribe ucydlist . For more information, visit the UCYD section of the Search website

YOUTHLEARN - This e-mail discussion list, created by the Morino Institute , is designed to focus on issues related to working with youth and technology, particularly in out-of-school settings. To subscribe, click here.

YouthNOISE - launched in August 2001 by Save the Children, reaches teens ages 13-19 who want to make a difference in their communities, locally and globally. To subscribe, click here.