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SERVICES

Positive youth development is a comprehensive way of thinking about the development of adolescents and the factors that facilitate their successful transition from adolescence to adulthood.

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This new strength-based, resilience-oriented perspective on adolescence is known as positive youth development, a term in use since at least the early 1970s (Polk & Kobrin, 1972). The basic premise of PYD is that even the most disadvantaged young person can develop positively when connected to the right mix of opportunities, supports, positive roles, and relationships. Having a wide range of pro-social experiences during adolescence allows a young person to practice and demonstrate competency and to embrace his or her responsibilities and value to the larger community.

 

The central purpose of PYD is action. Communities are encouraged to break down barriers to opportunity, and provide positive roles and relationships for all youth, including the most disadvantaged and disconnected. While the term "adolescent development" describes a topic of scientific investigation in which researchers generate knowledge about the processes of individual growth and maturation, PYD represents the various methods, techniques, grounded theories, and practices used to apply scientific knowledge about adolescent development in agency and community settings (e.g., Pittman, Irby, & Ferber, 2000).

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT

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WORK:

  • Work experience

  • Apprenticeships

  • Employment readiness

  • Income &

  • Independence

2

EDUCATION:

  • Literacy

  • Learning skills

  • Career planning

3

RELATIONSHIPS:

  • Communication skills

  • Conflict resolution

  • Family systems

  • Intimacy

  • Support

4

HEALTH:

  • Physical activity

  • Diet & nutrition

  • Mental & behavioral health

  • Lifestyle

5

CREATIVITY:

PROGRAMS:

  • Personal expression

  • Visual arts

  • Performing arts

  • Language arts

Transformative Mentoring

Education Advocacy

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COMMUNITY:

  • Provides personal and emotional support through workshops and mentors and promotion of interaction with dedicated adults

  • Emphasizes the importance of focusing on youths strengths instead of their risk factors to ensure that all youth grow to become contributing adults.

  • Ensures that each youth has the ability to handle commonly encountered daily life issues. Ensures the ability to make appropriate choices and self maintenance in a community environment.

  • Provides youth with practical real-life experiences through taking classroom lessons and applying the information to real-life experiences such as, grocery planning and shopping, housing and job search experiences, and community service.

  • Assists the youth in time management. Explores family resources in the youths life

  • Assists the youth in understanding the home life components of maintaining a home, i.e. cleaning, cooking and washing,

  • Assists youth in understanding and improving daily living skills to include but not limited to; nutrition, menu planning, grocery shopping, and leisure time,

Service Learning Projects

  • Community Service Hours

  • Diversity Recognition & Appreciation

  • Study of women who make a difference:

  • Past and Present

  • Assists the youth in identifying work-study programs in the college/university environment.

  • Assists the youth to identify safe and appropriate social and recreational activity resources in the selected college and/or university.

  • Identifies access to test preparation and SAT, ACT and/or relevant pre-college test taking opportunities

  • Assists the youth to identify and complete all prerequisite requirements to enter a college environment.

  • Identifies Post Secondary Education Exploring and Planning

  • Assists youth to directly access educational and career exploration and development services.

  • Assists youth in improving advocacy and communication skills that may include networking experiences and leadership development.​

Healthy Living​​

  • Demonstrates and teaches meal planning that provides well balanced meals and snacks.

  • Provides youth with menus and recipes that use basic food groups and demonstrate preparation.

  • Provides cost free publications showing nutritious food choices and show the youth how and where to obtain them

  • Civic engagement

  • Community leadership

  • Services

  • Responsibility

Workforce Development

  • Cultivates interests and skills, and relates them to future employment.

  • Promotes activities that help youth explore careers.

  • Builds job-readiness skills.

  • Promotes work-related education and training after high school.

  • Assists the youth to develop a career plan that outlines the youth specific career goal, steps necessary to achieve the goal, services that are necessary to support the youth in achieving the goal in the specified time frame.

  • Assists the youth to identify, access and fully participate in appropriate vocational internship and apprenticeship opportunities.

  • Instructs, models and coaches a youth in the job interviewing process.

  • Instructs and coaches as appropriate the youth in the completion of job application, develop a resume and cover letter.

  • Instructs and assists the youth in conducting a job search.

  • Instructs and/or coaches the youth in business and work etiquette.

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