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Bring Your Bricks: Taking Responsibility for Positive Youth Development

Bring Your Bricks: Taking Responsibility for Positive Youth Development. Families: Virginia’s First Industry October 4-5, 2000 Angela J. Huebner, Ph.D. Virginia Tech. MARBLE TOWERS. competence. Positive Youth Development. character. connection. caring & compassion. confidence.

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Bring Your Bricks: Taking Responsibility for Positive Youth Development

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  1. Bring Your Bricks: Taking Responsibility for Positive Youth Development Families: Virginia’s First Industry October 4-5, 2000 Angela J. Huebner, Ph.D. Virginia Tech

  2. MARBLE TOWERS

  3. competence Positive Youth Development character connection caring & compassion confidence

  4. 5 C’s of Positive Youth Development • Connection • Caring & Compassion • Confidence • Character • Competence

  5. Positive Youth Development &Community Youth Development • Providing the supports, opportunities and structures necessary to ensure that youth have the opportunity to meet their basic needs and to develop the competencies they will need to become productive citizens of our communities.

  6. Evolution of Youth Development • Intervention: • implementation after a problem has been identified • Prevention: • programs based on the probability of risk status • Positive Youth Development: • programs for all youth regardless of risk status

  7. “Problem Free” is not “Fully Prepared”--Karen Pittman

  8. All kids develop competence. It’s up to us to ensure the competencies they develop are those that will help them to become productive members of our communities.

  9. Defining What We Want: • Skills • Values • Attitudes • Knowledge • Commitments

  10. Areas of Competence • Health & Physical • Personal & Social • Cognitive & Creative • Vocational • Citizenship/Ethics

  11. Building the Foundation for Positive Youth Development • Possibilities & Preparation • Participation • People • Place & Pluralism • Partnership

  12. 1. Possibilities and Preparation • What opportunities are available to youth? • Have youth opinions been sought? • Do program staff encourage youth to try multiple experiences?

  13. 2. Participation • Do we know how youth in our communities are spending their out-of-school time? • Do we know what programs we have available? • Are all young people actively recruited for group membership? • Do youth have transportation to and from programs?

  14. 3. People • Who are the people interacting with our young people on a daily basis? • Have they been trained in youth development practices? • How do adults view youth? Threats? Resources? • Have adults been asked to share their special talents or skills? • Do adults role model healthy behavior?

  15. 4. Places & Pluralism • What kind of environments for development does the community provide? • What resources for youth are available in this community? • What can youth access on their own? • Are organizations inclusive of all youth?

  16. 5. Partnerships • Are youth included as partners and planners in programs? • Do adults believe that youth can make valuable contributions? • Do parents,youth leaders, teachers, clergy etc communicate about young people? • Do agencies work together?

  17. Summary • 5 C’s of Positive Youth Development • connection, caring & compassion, confidence, character, competence • Role of Community Youth Development • supports, opportunities, services • 5 P’s for Promoting Youth Development • possibilities & preparation, participation, people, place & pluralism, partnership

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