Yishin KHoo's List: youth development

• taking on new responsibilities
• Negotiating this transition successfully has positive consequences
• The conditions and characteristics that put people on a positive trajectory early

   

  in life can help them negotiate later transitions such as entering adolescence and young adulthood
• Transition periods also can function as turning points, providing opportunities for change

   

  from negative to more positive developmental pathways in subsequent developmental periods
• Thriving can be

     

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  understood as the active process by which individuals shape and engage with their developmental

   

  contexts in order to develop competencies, skills, and behavioral repertoires that are simultaneously

   

  beneficial to self and to society

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• he National Youth Policy written by young people in 1997 prescribes that youth (defined as those between the ages of 14 and 35) must be engaged in the development, planning, and implementation of all youth policies and programs. This policy promotes participation of youth in the reconstruction and development of South Africa. Young people are involved in reviewing the budget of every governmental department to assess its impact on young people. Youth presence is well-organized; there are National and Provincial Commissions for youth which review policy, budgets, and programs. The political parties all have young people engaged in their activities. Most youth programs are run by young people, and young people must be involved in meetings concerning youth policies and programs. In general, youth are valued and their voices are heard.

• community-based resilience enhancing psychosocial sport and play programs, established to help children and youth experiencing adversity in their lives. Sport and play activities (with play being inclusive of any organized movement, exercise, game or artistic activities) can have a stabilizing impact on most children through supporting and encouraging their resilience processes, with resilience being described as the process of, and capacity for, successful adaptation despite challenging or threatening circumstances.
• Psychosocial sports and play programs are a relatively new approach to helping children manage adversity
• In recent years, the United Nations, individual governments, international non-governmental humanitarian aid organizations, and sports corporations have been turning to psychosocial sport and play programs as an innovative method to address numerous health and social problems (with the use of the term “play” being inclusive of any organized movement, exercise, game or artistic activities). P

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• Benard,   B. (1991). Fostering Resiliency in Kids:   Protective Factors in the Family, School,   and Community. Portland, OR: Western Center   for Drug-Free Schools and Communities.

• • How does the work that you (or your organization) do incorporate what   we know about adolescent development?
     
  
     
  • Are the program activities you are currently implementing appropriate   to adolescent physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and behavioral   development? What evidence do you have to support your answer?
     
   
   
  • How would you adapt the current program you are using to better meet   the developmental capacities of the early, middle and late adolescent?   How would the program change for the three different stages of adolescence?
     
   
   
  • How well do you think the adults working with teens you know understand   and apply adolescent development principles to the work they do with   teens?
     
  
     
  • If your answer to the last question was something like "not so   well," then how might you open the dialogue about adolescent development   with these adults?