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3 About this Guide suggested structure for activities. For that reason, sections build on each other and concepts in earlier activities are relevant to subsequent ones. In practice, you may need to adapt the timing or sequence of activities to create a fun, hands-on, meaningful experience for your group. You may also need to supplement team-building activities to fit your group’s needs. With that said, you are encouraged to use the guide flexibly and creatively to meet your needs, and those of the group. You are welcome to pick and choose lessons to help your group achieve a specific outcome. The experiences of ‘finding out’ and ‘speaking up’ can change a young person’s life. The skills gained from organizing, doing research, finding creative solutions and taking them out into the world, learning to work creatively together, and speaking one’s truth to power can last a lifetime. We hope that you find the experiences as rewarding as we have. Christine Iovannicci, MSW, MPH Charlotte M. Dickson, MSW Denice A. Dennis, MPH Isabelle Barbour, MPH August 2006
1-1 Guiding Framework Lesson Lesson 1: 1: 1: Youth Youth Development Development & & & Community Community Organizing Organizing Youth development is an assets based approach to working with young people. It seeks to develop skills within young people such as public speaking, research and problem solving. Youth development goes beyond a prevention model of working with, e.g. one that seeks only to help teens avoid pregnancy or substance abuse, and asks the question “what is needed to foster the development of young people into healthy, productive adults?” Youth development strategies flow from this question. Our project draws upon the work of Bonnie Benard and the field of resilience, one of the many “schools” of youth development. The core of this approach consists of: 1) caring relationships between adults and young people; 2) opportunities for meaningful participation by young people, and; 3) high expectations of young people. These elements assist young people to address community problems and, in the process, develop their skills to negotiate other parts of their life now and in the future. The resiliency framework is not a prescription but a guide for developing activities that foster youth development. It is a resource intensive approach because it requires program staff to think through their methods and put young people – not the product or promised outcomes – at the center.
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RAINING RAINING ROCKS ROCKS QUESTIO
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Community Resources Local Local Cal
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