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Strategies for working with high risk youth Eric Kelly Ekelly@yfc

Learn effective strategies for working with high-risk youth to create a safe environment, build strong connections, and empower them to make positive choices. Gain insights on distinguishing high-risk from at-risk youth, understanding behaviors, and fostering a supportive community. Explore valuable resources for empowering troubled youth.

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Strategies for working with high risk youth Eric Kelly Ekelly@yfc

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  1. Strategies for working with high risk youth Eric Kelly Ekelly@yfc.net

  2. Online Traininghttp://yfc.learnsocially.com/home

  3. How do we distinguish a “high risk” youth from an “at risk” one ?

  4. How about you?

  5. Why are the 40 assets so important?

  6. So what does this look like in the teens I work with?

  7. Experiment

  8. Survival Mode

  9. Lives for immediate gratification, and postponement of rewards is unacceptable • Exhibits learned behaviors. Attitudes and behavior patterns are learned from others, many times their peers • Has a weak conscience and is less affected by guilt than the average person

  10. Uses people without becoming attached. People become “tools” in his quest for survival • No respect for law, tradition, or persons in authority

  11. Believes that his behavior is all right. From his perspective his motives are justified and behavior reasonable. • Pleasure is guiding life principle. Self-centered, materialistic, and status-oriented values scream, “I want it, and I want it now • Is lonely — peer group does not meet needs for love and self worth.

  12. So what do I do in my programming to address this?

  13. Our teens need a safe encouraging environment • Our teens need strong bonds of connection with adult role models who take an invested interest in them • Our teens need to feel they are a part of a caring community that values them as persons of great worth regardless of their behavior

  14. Our teens need a distinctive set of rules and consequences which are taught to them within the context of relationship • Our teens need to make their own decisions and their own choices, yet know that we will stand by them if those choices lead to bad consequences. • Our teens need to know that their confidences will be kept with the exception where they indicate harm to themselves or others and that this exception is based on our care and concern for them.

  15. Take a genuine interest in something positive about the student. (Play up strengths) • Be respectful of cultural and economic differences.

  16. Believe that youth are valued and are worth the effort • Be consistent—“I will not give up”

  17. Recommended Readings Framework for Understanding Poverty-Payne Bridges out of Poverty—Payne At-Risk-Larson Lost Boys: Why Out Sons Turn Violent and How We Can Save Them-Garbarno Reclaiming Our Prodigal Sons and Daughters-Brendtro

  18. Can I identify any in my ministry? What changes need to happen Am I caring for them well? How can I hit more assets?

  19. Strategies for working with high risk youth Eric Kelly Ekelly@yfc.net

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