Community youth development

unemployment, unrealized potential, and lower paying jobs in the future where employment is found and future mental health issues as well as a myriad of other problems (McQuaid, 2014). After the 2008 global financial crisis there was a sharp rise in youth unemployment around the world, and understandably so (Fig 1). In cutting costs for many business, the young and inexperienced workers were more often than not the first to be made redundant. Businesses who were still able to hire new workers…

From Into the Wild” this longing to hold on to his youth and yet gain freedom from and society 's restrictions, and his traumatic childhood came with a willingness to take a two year transcontinental journey where he would eventually wind up in Alaska. Unknowing, that this obsession to find his true self…

This led to the troubled families program set up by the Department for Communities and Local Government (2012) and fronted by Louise Casey. It aims to those with problems, and cost the state money. Teenage mothers are highlighted in this scheme as ‘troubled’, it provides examples of teenage mothers who have struggled and have…

Righteous B and His Ministry of Dirty Vagabonds There are many people who have made an impact when it comes to Youth Ministry. Pope John Paul II comes to mind when thinking about leaders in youth outreach, but I always think of someone who works on a much smaller scale. Someone who affected my life personally when it came to my religion. I always think of the Catholic youth minister and rapper Bob Lesnefsky aka Righteous B. With his wife, and a large number of young missionaries…

230). A study done on Intergenerational Conflicts in Everyday Life discusses how the elderly become “aggressive victims” through the perceived forms in which young people fail to show respect. They are publicly appealing to the norms they feel the youth should comply with (Smol 'kin, 2011, p. 38,…

by not voting” -Franklin D. Roosevelt. With the rise of youth voting increasing to 22 million voters in the 2008 presidential and 23 million voters in the 2012 election, still only about half of the American youth population voted in 2008 and 2012. This is a serious problem in our society because young people need to find their voices by getting politically educated and turn out to vote. The only people who can change the shortage of youth voting are the 18-29 year olds who make up that group.…

Explain how different types of interventions can promote positive outcomes for children and young people where development is not following the expected pattern. “Early intervention means intervening as soon as possible to tackle problems that have already emerged for children and young people...it means that it targets specific children who have an identified need for additional support once their problems have already begun to develop but before they become serious.” (Department for…

“Reading Pop Culture and Young Adult Literature Through the Youth Lens” from the January 2015 edition of The English Journal discusses a professor’s implementation of a curriculum for teacher candidates that encourages future teachers to identify and consider the portrayal of societal constructions of adolescence in various texts. Through biological, psychology and pop-culture perspectives, teacher-candidates learn to question the dominant narratives of adolescence and see future students on an…

The rate of youths in prisons has been rapidly declining. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, and the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, in 1995 the number of offenders increased up to a rate of 107,637 on a single day. Since then the number of youth offenders has decreased between 37,000 to 70,792. Although the number of youth offenders has decreased, there are individuals still incarcerated facing challenges and adjusting to the new ways of…

very resourceful. To have a drive, you have to have a mindset of achievement and purpose. Young people know what they want our life and they know how to succeed in getting it. Speaking physically, they make sure and may also take note of what their community, environment, or household needs in order to be successful and at its best. In regards to their creativity, young people are extremely savvy with modern-day technology which may include uploading videos and maintain a YouTube channel,…