Fact Sheets
Fact Sheets Related to Strategies for Promoting Positive Youth Development
- Youth Development and Abstinence
Discover the relationship between youth development and abstinence in young people, and
learn how research supports using a youth development approach in abstinence education programs.
- Cross-age Teaching
Discover how programs that engage older youth in working with younger youth result in great benefits
for everyone, and learn specific strategies for encouraging cross-age teaching and mentoring programs in your community.
- Stakeholder Involvement
Discover the relationship between stakeholder involvement and program success, and learn specific ways to elicit stakeholder
insights during each phase of program planning, implementation and evaluation.
- Target Age: Nine to Thirteen Year Olds
Discover the relationship between youth development efforts and healthy decision-making in preadolescent and early adolescent
youth, and learn practical reasons for taking a youth development approach when working with this age group.
- Youth-Adult Partnerships
Discover the importance of youth-adult partnerships for overall community well-being and learn specific strategies for increasing
the likelihood that they will be successful.
Fact Sheets Related to the 21 elements of youth development.
- Academic
Success
Discover the indicators and positive outcomes that are associated with academic success in youth in the 21st century, and learn
specific strategies for promoting academic success in your community.
- Citizenship and Contribution
Discover the relationship between citizenship and contribution and the reduction of youth risk behaviors such as truancy and
risky sexual behavior, and learn specific ways to promote the development of youth citizenship in your community.
- Close Relationships With Caring Adults
Discover the importance of youth developing relationships with caring adults, including increased healthy behaviors, and academic performance
and how to effectively facilitate the development of these supportive relationships within your community.
- Communication
Discover how developing skills in a variety of communication styles supports youth to be empowered and effective in expressing themselves,
and learn specific ways in which you can promote the development of communication within your community.
- Creativity
Discover why the cultivation of creativity is a key component of programs and strategies that produce positive outcomes for youth,
and learn specific ways to encourage the development of youth creativity in your community.
- Decision-making / reasoning skills
Discover the relationship between decision-making skills and the promotion of positive behaviors and the prevention of problem behaviors
in youth, and learn specific methods to promote the development of decision-making skills in the youth of your community.
- Facing
Challenges / Taking Initiative
Discover how youth development programs that help young people develop initiative and face challenges will prepare them to succeed in today's
rapidly changing world and help them avoid potential problem behaviors, and learn specific strategies for promoting youth self-efficacy in your community.
- Family Relations
Discover elements of parental and sibling relationships that contribute to healthy decision making, increased academic achievement and positive
peer relationships and strategies for promoting strong family relationships within your community.
- Leadership
Discover how the development of leadership skills leads to enhanced positive outcomes for youth and their communities, and learn specific methods to encourage the development of youth leadership in your community.
- Peer Relationships and Friendship
Discover how the development of peer relationships and
friendships contributes greatly to youth self-esteem, social competence and leadership skills, and learn specific methods to promote positive peer relationships in your
community.
- Take an Active Role with
Adults
Discover the relationship between youth taking an active role with adults and the development of social responsibility and cooperation and the reduction of negative behaviors, and learn specific strategies for
adults and youth that encourage the creation of these influential partnerships.
- Workforce Preparation
Discover the impact that workforce preparation programs can have on young people's school performance, including improved attendance, grades, and graduation rates, as well reduced risk behaviors related to drug use,
and learn specific strategies to help young people become prepared for the work force in your community.
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