Youth work

Several of today's youth are misguided through their lives by false conceptions of the world that are created within the minds of over-protective parents. These ideas of the present in combination with the values and morals of the current generation of parents can be hazardous to the development of children's creativity and their potential. It is imperative that adolescents be directed at an early age toward a lifestyle that is centered on self-sufficiency. A new generation of society…

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…

young people. Substantive Selection Criteria: Proven ability to relate to and work with children and young people with social, emotional and behavioural difficulties. I believe through studying a Bachelor of Human Services/Justice at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) I will gain the experience and skills necessary to fulfil this criterion. Both areas of study will assist me in understanding the difficulties youth faces in society and the most appropriate way to support them. Human…

am a fulltime employee in the Treatment Services Department and was given the opportunity to conduct my work-study with the Next Step Program. Next Steps is a mentorship program that works directly with youths’ ages 16 – 24 in NYCHA developments (Patterson and Butler housing developments) in the Bronx. The goal of the program is to reduce violence and recidivism in these developments. Youths are involved in identifying their problems and developing solutions…

locking them up and throwing away the key so quickly America’s youth crime system has come a long way, but we have a lot to go before calling our method to approaching juvenile criminals successfully, we need more studies on what prevents/cause youth crime, more intervention for youth crime and better methods…

In recent years, many youth athletic organizations have decided that trophies should be given out for participation, rather than athletic ability. This policy is supposed to promote skill building and equality among all adolescent athletes. While the players may be building skills on an equal playing field, they are also being allowed to believe that they deserve to be recognized for giving their best effort, when in reality that is not the case. Although initiated with good intentions, the…

confusion. During this stage, teenagers have little responsibility as well as the luxury of discovering who they are and who they want to be. Youth who successfully maneuver this stage come out of it with a solid sense of who they are. Youth who do not are likely to suffer from identity confusion which causes either withdrawal and isolation or the youth losing their identity in a peer group (Santrock, 2015). This is important information to consider as a Family Life Educator (FLE). Most…

that sports are too time consuming. Many experts have done studies that show the positive impacts sports have on children. Sport participation in school does not worsen academic results despite taking time away from class (Maximizing the Benefits of Youth Sport). Athletes know that they don’t have as much time to do schoolwork, which makes them more motivated to use their time for school. Students that aren’t athletes don’t use their free time for school which makes them less likely to do…

family (Ministry of Justice, 2005). Youth Justice Co-ordinators are usually qualified Social Workers. Under the Act, the responsibilities of Youth Justice Co-ordinators are to convene and facilitate all Family Group Conference. They are obligated to make all reasonable and relevant effort in consulting with the young person’s family and their extended family, the victim, informant (the Police), and declaring any concerns regarding the care and protection. The Youth co-ordinator does not have any…

doing with their time and what it means for how and in what way they are developing in that time. Reed Larson, the author of the paper brings up how over the years young people have started to do less and less labor work at a young age, slowly receding to more of an emphasis on school work and supplemental discretionary time. Time doing chores have lowered as more kids start becoming more distracted in other time takers such a television and the new monster of their time the internet.…