Youth Policy Summary

In the article, “What Do Adolescents Need for Healthy Development? Implications for Youth Policy”, Jodie Roth and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn break down the social policy into fourth main ideas. First, Roth and Brooks-Gunn explain that a healthy development for an adolescent is summarized into the “five C’s”: competence being the ability to complete something successfully in the academic, social and vocational field, confidence in an adolescent, connection or healthy relationships with individuals around an adolescent, character from their morals and caring or compassion towards themselves and the individuals around them. Secondly, what challenges occur in the adolescent life and how does an adolescent negotiate that transition? Each challenge brought …show more content…
According to the article, in a negative result, adolescents who do not eat dinner with a parent five or more days a week are in higher risk of substance abuse, confrontations and early sexual activity. On the positive side, they have more time to explore areas that a parent may not approve on going into. Altogether, there has to be a balance between the adolescent’s social life with everyone around them to build a trust. Lastly, with the findings for better developing adolescent, how could these findings help bring programs that benefit to their development? Is the community well organized and close or it run down and untrustworthy? A community with a lack of face, according to the article, could explain for the delinquent activities that are influenced by the adults there. For example, if they see the adults doing poorly, adolescences may act poorly. A community that offers support is the primary source of developing a healthy adolescent and …show more content…
Without a healthy imbalance at times of these five ideas, the adolescent would go through this period in their life babied and not prepared for the world once thrown into it. This was interesting for it kind of summed up a great deal of issues that could be a “make it or break it” for an adolescent. Although there are those few exceptions, without a good community there would be no good kids and that goes for other things as well. It was also interesting to kind of compare my life to what the article was saying and to the examples to explain how they I am from the set up of my community, my mothers parenting style and how the balance and imbalance of the five C’s could have a great deal on my life. With these studies, it may be beneficial down the road to possibly find out why a certain area of a generation turned out the way that they did by connecting it back again to the five