positive youth development 9-20-12
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Positive YouthDevelopment
Jeanette Nadonley, DC BA
September 20, 2012
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Success
How do you define success?
What Characteristics, skill attributes would
you like to see in a youth?
How do we get the desired outcomes?
Listchallenges, risks, difficult situations ayouth encounters
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Small Group Activity
Pretend you are a teenager, 13-17 years old.
What does your life look like?
What influences are shaping your life?
What challenges are you facing?What is helping you through a difficult time?
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What Do Young People Need to Thrive
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Engagement
Connectedness
Preparedness
Safety and Basic Needs
What do young peopleneed to thrive?
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What Do Young People Need to Thrive
Safety and Basic NeedsYoung people needtheir needs met (shelter, food, etc.) and feel safebefore they can grow and learn. Youth in survivalmode do not thrive.
PreparednessYoung people need to developcompetencies and skills to ready themselves for
work and adult life. Competencies include:academic, social, emotional, vocational andcultural.
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What Do Young People Need to Thrive
ConnectednessYoung people need to belong,to be connected to family and community to thrive.
A growing body of brain research indicates thatwe are hardwired to connect. It is a core requisite
to learn, develop and interact with the world.
EngagementYoung people need opportunitiesto engage in meaningful activities, have a voice,
take responsibility for their actions, and actively
participate in civic discourse.
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What are Strengths? Talents Skills
Knowledge Interests Dreams/Hopes/Goals Creativity
Culture Passion Connections
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What is Strengths Based Approach?
Emerging from the field of social work, it is a
set of ideas, assumptions, and techniques:
People are active participants in the helping
process (empowerment)
All people have strengths, often untapped or
unrecognized
Strengths foster motivation for growth
Strengths are internal and environmental
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Outcomes
How are young people reaching these
outcomes? We as mentors and community
members need to provide opportunities foryoung people to have a range of experiences,
to learn and engage in meaningful activities
throughout their journey to adulthood. Many of
you are doing this already in different settings.
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Learning can and needs to happen in all
environments. Its not just the responsibility of
schools or parents.
It happens 24 hours a day, seven days a
week. Its a long term commitment. Young people
need opportunities throughout childhood
and adolescence.
Learning opportunities and experiences needto be developmentally appropriate. A 12 year
old has different abilities and needs than a 16
year old.
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5 Cs
CompetenceConfidence
Character
ConnectionContribution
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CompetenceThe ability and motivation for
Civic and social engagement
Cultural engagement Physical health
Emotional health
Intellectual achievement
Employability
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Civic and social: Develop social and cooperative skills
activities can highlight team projects, community serviceprojects, cooperative games, teambuilding. Cultural: Develop cultural competence and awareness activities can inform about different cultural backgrounds,include research on historic struggles, multiculturalexperiences (food, art/dances, celebrations); agency usespictures/posters highlighting different cultural groups incommunity. Physical health: Promote healthy choices and healthy lifestyles activities include physical activities, healthy nutrition,peer education on health issues.
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Emotional health: Develop and practice ability to recognizeand express emotions appropriately activities include a
reflection process to recognize and express emotionalreactions, include exercises on handling anger and frustration;provide support for stressful circumstances; caring adultrelationships . Intellectual: Promote basic academic skills as well as criticalthinking and problem solving skills tutoring and homeworksupport, community projects that include research andproblem solving components; promote independent or smallgroup projects; recognition. Employability: Develop basic work skills and provideinformation on career paths activities foster communicationand socialization skills, field trips, speakers (communitymembers and mentors) discussing career paths.
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ConfidenceHaving a sense of mastery and future
Having a sense of self-efficacy
opportunities to demonstrate skills, recognition andfeedback.
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CharacterHaving a sense of responsibility and
autonomy
Having a sense of spirituality and self-awareness
Having an awareness of ones own
personality or individuality
Having a sense of responsibility, ones ownpersonality, pro-social valuesprogram provides
positive role models, adult relationships, recognition
of responsible behavior
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ConnectionMembership and belonging
Having a sense of safety and structure
Having a sense of membership and belonging andsafetyprovide a psychological and physical safespace; clear behavior expectations andconsequences; branding (logo or product identifyingmembership), caring relationships, connection with
mentor and other community groups
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ContributionBeing involved as active participant and
decision maker in services, organizations and
community
Being an active participant, having an impactprovide
opportunities for leadership, youth voice; community
service; civic engagement.
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Long-Term Commitment
Young people need to be nurtured andsupported 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
First 20 years of their lives
In accordance with their developmental
needs
Through a variety of supportive
relationships and programs
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Adult Allies
Allies are adults who advocate
and support young people. Theyassist young people in theirlives, support them when theystruggle, and let them know how
important they are and thatchange is possible.
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Adult Allies
Skills and opportunities that might help usbecome adult allies - self-reflection
- active listening
- teambuilding, cooperative learning
- knowledge of adolescent development - cultural sensitivity
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Features of Effective YouthDevelopment Settings
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SharingInformation
ChangingServices
CrossTraining
Networking Coordinating Cooperating Collaborating Integrating
SharingResources
MergingStructure
Trust
Turf
Collaboration Continuum
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Collaboration Continuum
Networking- Exchanging information formutual benefit. This is easy to do; requires
low initial level of trust; limited time availability
and no sharing of turf.Coordinating- Exchanging information and
altering program activities for mutual benefit
and to achieve a common purpose. Requires
more organizational involvement thannetworking, higher level of trust and some
access to ones turf.
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Cooperating - Exchanging information, altering activitiesand sharing resources for mutual benefit and to achieve acommon purpose. Increased organizational commitment,
may involve written agreements, shared resources can
involve human, financial and technical contributions.
Requires a substantial amount of time, high level of trust
and significant sharing of turf.Collaborating - Exchanging information, altering activities,sharing resources and enhancing each others capacity for
mutual benefit and to achieve a common goal. The
qualitative difference to cooperating is that organizations
and individuals are willing to learn from each other tobecome better at what they do. Collaborating means that
organizations share risks, responsibilities and rewards. It
requires a substantial time commitment, very high level of
trust, and sharing turf.
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Integrating - Completely merging two organizationsin regards to client operations as well asadministrative structure.
Collaborative efforts are only successful in
facilitating change if they are supported from the topdown and he bottom up. Administrative support is
needed to allow front line staff to make decisions
about agency resources shared in a collaborative
effort. Both, front line and administrative staff must
be open and willing to go beyond business asusual.
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To Reach The
Top RequiresTeamwork
Mentees are not expectedto do it alonethey need
your help!!