Youth Services

Networking  |  COVID Resources  |  Program Planning & Sharing  |  LVA Sponsored Programs  |  Performer Directory  |  Additional Resources

Networking

• • Children’s & Youth Services Staff Jam Session
    • • A monthly chance for all youth services staff to gather virtually via Google Meets to build community and crowd-source ideas and solutions to challenges
      • CYS Jam Session Meeting Notes and Survey Responses

COVID Resources

• • Virtual Programming Statistics Guidance
  • Resources from the Association of Library Services to Children (ALSC)

Program Planning & Sharing

• • Please consider sharing your successful programs with the Virginia library community–it takes a village!
    • • Submit a Program
      • Instructions to submit a program
  • Find a program to replicate
  • Go Open Virginia is a VA Dept of Ed resource sharing site. Great ideas and lesson plans.
  • Science Museum of Virginia activities and lessons
  • Virtual Programming with Zan and Dan Raynor of  Stevens Puppets  (training recorded in Sept. 2020). Strategic virtual programming: building and keeping audiences, marketing, and outcome evaluation.

• • • • Recording | Slides

LVA Sponsored Programs

• • 1000 Things Before Kindergarten
  • Dial a Story
  • 2023 Summer Reading Program
  • DaybyDayVa: A Family Literacy Calendar
  • Nature Backpack Program
  • Skill Toy Programming for T/w/eens: Critical Thinking
  • SummerMeals@YourLibrary Program Information

Performer Directory

• • 2023 Performer Directory (Revised)
  • If you know of a performer not on this list that you would recommend to others, please contact Sue La Paro, Youth Services Consultant at susan.laparo@lva.virginia.gov

Additional Resources

• • Resource Links
  • Youth Services Notes – past issues
  • Summer Reading Impact Study
  • Animal Clip Art