Youth development

A socio-cultural lens offers a contextual approach to understanding children and youth. This approach is beneficial towards young people because it employs a unique methodology in seeking to address issues regarding human behaviour and development, by considering how social relations and environmental context shape an individual. This process allows us to challenge our own beliefs and causes us to question how young people are influenced by their social environment and culture. These methods are…

members or fall away from the faith. Another book entitled, Already Gone, based on a 2009 research from American’s Research Group revealed that two thirds of young people are leaving the church when they go to college. Devil’s thrust directed at the youth embraced the formation of a postmodern attitude and emergence of superficial Christianity. The lack of the family’s spiritual influence and the isolation of the church’s function play the ultimate role in reasons why millennials leave the faith…

Professionalism and Human Development and Diversity Theresa Fraser had an interview session with Jessica Stairs, a child, and youth counsellor on the role of CYC /CYW in an educational milleu settings, legislation, and competencies. Theresa has been in the field for about 11years and she had started as a child and youth worker and later got her degree and became a child and youth counsellor. She works in a Toronto District School Board. Theresa talked about professionalism and cultural and human…

and I will tell you who you are. It is clear that each individual is a product of their environment and the people who surround them. Youth usually hang out with other youth. Majority of those young people become influenced by pop culture and the messages they portray. Since adolescents are very vulnerable and naïve during this time because of their brain development, they are more likely to adapt to their environment. Jeffery Jensen Arnett (1999) describes how the globalization of young people…

Liz Murray, like several children in the United States, had several struggles throughout her youth that made it very difficult for her to succeed in life. Her parents were both drug addicts, she did not go to school for several years, she was homeless for most of her teen years jumping from different friends houses, as well as several other adverse childhood experiences (ACEs). Despite all of these obstacles that occurred in her life she kept moving forward trying to get a job, caring for her…

YMCA, they engage 9 million youth and 13 million adults each year in the U.S. through four core values: caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. The YMCA and YWCA are accessible to all people, it offers solutions to financial situations for individuals and families who cannot afford membership. They encourages youth, adults, families and communities to be healthy, confident, connected and secure. Y’s across the U.S. play a role in strengthening the leadership and youth programs of the Y…

The month of September is different than the summer time. Most the youth use to come to the center to fill their time with entertainment and personal development. On September 9 the new School year supposed to start, unfortunately there are strikes, later they solved, But, East African Youth Program welcomed its student members back from their long summer break and wished them on good terms with this new school year. A lot of the youth are moving from middle to high school, and this means for…

themselves in video games, the public and the media would blame it all on the game producers saying “these games are responsible, you must pay”. This can go on no longer; people must know the truth about video games and their effect on children and youths before grabbing their pitchforks and torches and going after the people who made these games. In the DC navy yard shooting the gunman who killed twelve people and injured three more loved to play video games, so naturally the media instantly…

be aware of the barriers that prevent youth involvement, and develop strategies to avoid or effectively handle these obstacles – should they present. Researchers have found that there are three major barriers that affect youth participation. The first barrier is manipulation – youth do not want to feel like the adult leaders are attempting to manipulate them by educating them on community development, rather than engaging them in the process. Secondly, youth do not like to feel powerless;…

to network. The first session I attended was: The Resiliency of Youth and Community Using the Social Determinants of Health: What it takes for Youth and Children to Thrive In this session there was three programs…