Youth development

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…

For this assignment, I chose four different cultural groups that have a decent amount of significance in my life currently that are in a sequential order from when they happened. They include: being born and developed into an African-American woman, becoming an older sibling, being considered as a young adult (from the ages of 18-24 years old), and lastly, becoming a child care professional. The one primary cultural group that I am highly affiliated with at the moment is being considered as a…

Generation Like Summarize The Generation Like video explains to the viewer’s how younger people of this new generation use social media’s in order to feel accepted by their peers and at the same time using them as a way to promote advertisements for different companies. The first part of this video introduces the viewer to a group of younger people brainstorming ideas in order to get the most “likes” on their Facebook profile pictures, while this is happening Douglas Rushkoff is asking…

early teens, as early as thirteen years of age. 1.6 million youth are homeless each year with 40% of them identifying as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. These numbers are disproportionally high because 7% of the youth population in the United States is LGBT (“True Colors,” 2016). Each year $4.2 billion is spent on homeless assistance programs with less than 5% of this funding, $195 million, allocated for homeless children and youth. Out of that $195 million, there are currently no…

Have you ever wonder where the young adults are, or how to attract them to services? Why do young adults quit going to church American teens think about all of the culture. Because the language that they speak, music that they listen to. In different generation many people lives are different. Margaret Taylor writes, “Many young adults tend to think that the older generations tend to make judgments and assumptions about teenagers.” For example, Margaret Taylor said, “Typically based on the…

Gain from Youth Sports An extensive research report done by the Journal of School Health named “Relationships Between Youth Sport Participation and Selected Health Risk Behaviors 1999-2007” indicates the advantages of athletic participation among youth include: a reduced rate in juvenile arrests, teen pregnancies, drug use and school dropout; all the while augmenting the academic achievements of young athletes. Said results are attributed to 3 life skills attained and honed during the…

Saint Xavier Parish in Junction City, which falls under the diocese of Salina. Saint Xavier Parish activities include choir, altar serving and the Life Teen group. Every Sunday at 6 o’clock in the evening I would participate in the Life Teen Catholic youth ministry meeting. The group consist of 16-20 teenagers of middle or high school age receiving Catholic education. The religious education staff directors are Mr. and Mrs. Sandy Kutzner. Other parishioners involved in the religious group are…

fault he does not know he was made for good? There are many stories just like this boy, who grow up in homes full of physical abuse, drug abuse, and neglect. In a Christ in Youth advertisement in Relevant Newspaper, a picture of a boy is portrayed with the words: “MADE FOR GOOD” written over his face, to raise the awareness that youth need to be told that they were made on purpose, and there is a better way of life than the circumstances that may surround them. The advertisement shows a young…