Youth development

Ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns is an essential goal in global environmental conservation and is therefore a crucial element to the sustainable development goals that are assumed to be attained by September of 2015. Target Measurements There are 8 subsidiary goals that each reinforce the development of this SDG. In my opinion, many of these targets are quite ambiguous; it would require more details in order to be achieved. Targets 12.2, 12.4, 12.5, 12.6, 12.7, are…

Volunteer Service Abroad, VSA, is one of New Zealand largest, most experienced volunteer organisations, targeting international development in the wider Pacific. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, it is funded by the New Zealand government, under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). VSA originated in 1962, by the founding President, Sir Edmund Hillary, he passionately believed that people working together as equals had the ability to achieve incredible things (Volunteer Service…

Active physical play contributes to fine and gross motor development and body awareness. Using their bodies during play also enables children to feel physically confident, secure, and self-assured (Isenberg & Quisenberry, 2002). The physical benefits of active play are particularly valuable for children with joint…

Teenage period is a critical stage in human development. It is defined as the transitional phase of lifespan between childhood to mature adulthood in which very dramatic changes take place both physically and psychologically. Although the fact that every aspect of teenage development involves genetics is undeniable, various environments that teenagers encounter in day-to-day life have an impact on their overall behaviors and attitudes. This essay will focus on family as well as society as…

In order to inform the development of resilience promoting interventions, Rosenberg, A.R., Yi-Frazier, J.P., Wharton, C., Gordon, K., & Jones, B's (2014)prospective longitudinal mixed method study examines Adolescents and Young Adults with cancers definitions of resilience and identified factors which patients believed contributed to or detracted from their own resilience. In addition, Kim, D.H., & Yoo, I.Y. (2010) conducted a study in order to identify the factors associated with resilience of…

low-growing shrubs, many of which are summer deciduous, with some succulents and long-lived grasses, sages, buckwheats, etc. CSS generally exists on the California Coast and needs fog and warm temperatures to survive. The main threats to CSS are human development and invasive species. One of the main reasons that CSS is important is because it is the habitat for several endemic and…

balancing the national deficit. While the United States scaled back its foreign assistance, states began to fail, and radical groups took haven if these areas. Failed states continued to rise as the United States developed its technologies, energy developments, and resource independence.1 The lack of major U.S. presence in international economic issues causes many nations to collapse as well. The continent of Africa is the center of gravity for these failed states and radical groups.2 Major…

In the United States, about fifty percent of the children experience regular nonparent child care. The research done in this article through the Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development was a longitudinal study and it was done by an assorted of economically diverse families. A longitudinal study is an observational research method in which data is gathered for the same subjects repeatedly over a period of time. Longitudinal…

I grew up in a small church, where my mom was a Sunday school teacher and my dad was the Assistant Pastor. They also were involved in the youth a lot. Growing up, I can remember driving down the road on our way to church and seeing kids that knew or my mom knew and we would ask them if they wanted to go to church with us. Next thing you knew, we have like 5-6 local kids going to church with us. I can remember when we use to ask them where they lived so we could make sure that it was alright with…

Chlamydia screening for all females in juvenile detention amenities is suggested at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Torrone et al., 2015). Recognizing common factors of chlamydia could allow only specific screenings which would then reduce costs while still revealing many infections (Torrone et al. 2015). The study used various factors to classify features affiliated with chlamydia among females aged 12 to 18 years old in a juvenile detention facility in San Diego during January…