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Keys to Building Resilient Youth

Keys to Building Resilient Youth. Set and Communicate High Expectations. Adults who Provide Care, Support and Love. Provide Opportunities for Meaningful Participation. Home, School, and Community. Building Resilient Youth. Provide Opportunities for Meaningful Participation. Increase

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Keys to Building Resilient Youth

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  1. Keys to Building Resilient Youth Set and Communicate High Expectations Adults who Provide Care, Support and Love Provide Opportunities for Meaningful Participation Home, School, and Community

  2. Building Resilient Youth Provide Opportunities for Meaningful Participation Increase Pro-social Bonding Set Clear, Consistent Boundaries and Structure Set and Communicate High Expectations Building Resiliency Mitigate Risk Factors Adults Provide Care, Support & Love Teach “Life Skills”

  3. Provide Caring, Support and Love • Know birthday - celebrate • Call Youth when sick or absent • Help other youth develop concern for each other if absent • Make home visits • Greet and call by name • Show respect first • Give youth a chance to talk about self - Listen • Ask them their opinions- Listen • Give youth choices & power • Give unconditional love

  4. Set and Communicate High Expectations • Set Goals - Personal and Group • Keep track of progress • Accurate self assessment • Set timelines for progress • Allow youth to share and celebrate their success • Do group projects • Evaluate progress

  5. Provide Opportunities for Meaningful Participation • Do group projects • Assign jobs and responsibilities for your projects and program • Find opportunities for youth to show off their new skills in front of other adults and youth • Do things the youths are interested in • Have some fun - Arts - Music - Sports • Do field trips • Peer mentoring and teaching

  6. Increase Pro-social Bonding • Allow students to share unique culture, traditions, and interests • Promote differences, diversity as well as similarities • Learn to work together as a team • Learn to respect each other • Provide opportunities to share what they like and are good at • Do field trips and other activities where youth work together in society • Do community service projects

  7. Set Clear, Consistent Boundaries • Have youth help set rules of behavior • Help youth set consequences and how they can “make right” and rules broken • Help youth learn to do things by consensus • Enforce rules consistently and fairly for all.

  8. Teach Life Skills • Help youth develop protective assets • Have a protocol for resolving disputes • Teach youth to advocate for themselves • Model courtesy you wish to receive • Never assume that youth know the rules of civility • Teach and honor character development

  9. Desirable Youth Outcomes (Page 11 of Hand out) • Confidence • Self -worth • Mastery and Future • Character • Responsibility and Autonomy • Spirituality • Connection • Safety and Structure • Membership and Belonging • Competence • Knowledge, Skills, & Behaviors • Contribution • Participation • Influence

  10. A New View of Youth Development • Western View Having Doing Being • Taoist View Being Doing Having Emergent Thinking about Risk and Responsibility Fixing Youth Problems Preventing Youth Problems Promoting Youth Preparation Promoting Youth Participation Promoting Youth as Problem Solvers

  11. How to Measure Service Productivity

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