youth development

Assertive Youth Development: Strategies and Actions

I.Goswami. MSW,PGDHRM,DIP,PhDDirector-MBA

Sri Venkateswara Group of Institutions(Exclusive Institutes for World Class MBA / MCA)

Ettimadai, Coimbatore-641112Cell: 9786775136

<[email protected]>

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Fixing Troubled Kids!!

• The Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) monitors six types of health-risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death and disability among youth and adults, including—

• Behaviors that contribute to unintentional injuries and violence

• Tobacco use• Alcohol and other drug use• Sexual risk behaviors• Unhealthy dietary behaviors• Physical inactivity


40 Assets to Nurture and Develop!!

• There are 40 assets, internal and external, which form a foundation for healthy youth development.

• The 40-asset framework covers eight categories (support, empowerment, boundaries and expectations, constructive use of time, commitment to learning, positive values, social competencies, and positive identity) and provides communities a tool to measure these assets in their youths’ lives.


People: Program: Institutions

People, Programs and Institutions who work with youth are engaged in youth development if there is strong evidence of the following practices:


Supports: Opportunities: Quality Services

• Supports: Motivational, emotional and strategic supports to succeed in life. The supports can take many different forms, but they must be affirming, respectful, and ongoing. The supports are most powerful when they are offered by a variety of people, such as parents and close relatives, community social networks, teachers, youth workers, employers, health providers, and peers who are involved in the lives of young people.


Opportunities

• Opportunities: Chances for young people to learn how to act in the world around them, to explore, express, earn, belong, and influence. Opportunities give young people the chance to test ideas and behaviors and to experiment with different roles. It is important to stress that young people, just like adults, learn best through active participation and that learning occurs in all types of settings and situations.


Quality Services

• Quality Services: Services in such areas as education, health, employment, and juvenile justice which exhibit: (1) relevant instruction and information, (2) challenging opportunities to express oneself, to contribute, to take on new roles, and be part of a group, and (3) supportive adults and peers who provide respect, high standards and expectations, guidance and affirmation to young people.


India with a rich diversity of youth requires a development strategy in all shapes and sizes:

• An adult who volunteers time to mentor or tutor a young person;• A school that partners with community-based organizations to keep

its doors open until 10 pm and provide all youth a safe, supervised place to be with homework support, activities, physical and mental health services;

• A leadership development program that offers rival gang members neutral territory where they can relate to one another as individuals and build skills;

• A city government that engages youth in the policy making process through youth councils and youth positions in government departments;

• A religious institution that provides youth access to computers and the necessary training; and

• A local business which employs youth in meaningful and relevant work.


Key Elements to Youth Development

• Youth are viewed as valued and respected resource

• We need to move out of Conventional Policies and programs and move into Contemporary Policies and Programs.

• Youth should not be viewed as CLIENTS but as PARTNERS of Policy and Programs.

• Families, Schools/Colleges and Communities must work together to create an supportive environment.

• Adequate Adolescent Support Program to facilitate their development of “SELF”


Policy Transition

• Policy for Youth ( Youth as Burden)

• Policy by Youth ( Youth as Dividend)


Features of Positive Youth Development

• Physical and Psychological Safety

• Appropriate Structure

• Supportive Relationships

• Opportunities to belong

• Positive social norm

• Support for Efficacy and Mattering

• Opportunities for Skill building

• Integration of Family, School and Community.


Indian Youth Led Sector

• (Challenges) no access to funding and professional expertise or guidance, mobile/temporary workforce, issues of branding and staffing, little understanding of government policies

• (Strengths) young profile, readily available and passionate workforce, fresh ideas which do not encumber the past, access to greater feedback

• Understanding the strengths and challenges that this sector faces it is also important that Governments, Private Organizations and other Multilateral Originations recognize that the Youth led Sector provides for innovative solutions, a passionate work force working within the community, requires little investment and most importantly provides for a next line of leadership for the times to come.


The objectives of the National Youth Policy are:

• To instill in the youth, at large, an abiding awareness of, and adherence to, the secular principles and values enshrined in the Constitution of India, with unswerving commitment to Patriotism, National Security, National Integration, Non-violence and Social Justice;

• To develop Qualities of Citizenship and dedication to Community Service amongst all sections of the youth;

• To promote awareness, amongst the youth, in the fields of Indian history and heritage, arts and culture;


• . to provide the youth with proper educational and training opportunities and to facilitate access to information in respect of employment opportunities and to other services, including entrepreneurial guidance and financial credit;

• 5. to facilitate access, for all sections of the youth, to health information and services and to promote a social environment which strongly inhibits the use of drugs and other forms of substance abuse, wards off disease (like HIV/AIDS), ensures measures for de-addiction and mainstreaming of the affected persons and enhances the availability of sports and recreational facilities as constructive outlets for the abundant energy of the youth;

• 6. to sustain and reinforce the spirit of volunteerism amongst the youth in order to build up individual character and generate a sense of commitment to the goals of developmental programmes;

• 7 to create an international perspective in the youth and to involve them in promoting peace and understanding and the establishment of a just global economic order;


• to develop youth leadership in various socio-economic and cultural spheres and to encourage the involvement of Non-Governmental Organizations, Co-operatives and Non-formal groups of young people; and

• 9. to promote a major participatory role for the youth in the protection and preservation of nature, including natural resources, to channelise their abundant energies in community service so as to improve the environment and foster a scientific, inquisitive reasoning and rational attitude in the younger generation and to encourage the youth to undertake such travel excursions as would better acquaint them with cultural harmony, amidst diversity, in India, and overseas.


• The revised umbrella scheme will be operated by the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports as a 100% central sector scheme during 11th Five Year Plan

• 1. Youth Leadership and Personality Development, .2. Promotion of National Integration: — National Integration Camp, Inter-State Youth Exchange Programme Multi-Cultural Activities, National Youth Festival, State Youth Festival, National Youth Awards 3. Promotion of Adventure:-Promotion of adventure at basic and intermediate level in India; Promotion of adventure at advance level including expeditions in India, Grants to Recognised Institutions, Tenzing Norgey National Adventure Awards. 4. Development and Empowerment of Adolescents: – Life Skills Education, Counseling, Career Guidance, Residential Camps. 5. Technical and Resource Development:- Environment Building, Research & Studies on youth issues, Documentation & Publication, Seminars, Conferences, Exhibitions and Workshops on youth or adolescent issues, national integration and adventure.


IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SCHEME

A. All India Organizations (AIOs) i.e.,

(1) Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan (Head Quarter) for Nehru Yuva Kendra’s;(2) National Service Scheme (Programme Adviser Cell) for NSS Units;(3) Bharat Scouts & Guides (Head Quarter) for their own Units;(4) Universities including deemed Universities;(5) Association of Indian Universities and(6) Himalayan Mountaineering Institute, Indian Mountaineering Foundation, Jawahar Institute of Mountaineering and Winter Sports and other adventure institutes recognised by the Ministry.


IMPLEMENTATION OF THE SCHEME

(B) State Level Organizations (SLOs) i.e.

(i) State Governments, State Departments/Directorates for Youth Affairs/Youth Welfare and other District Level Officers in States;(ii) Panchayati Raj Institutions and Urban Local Bodies;(iii) Educational Institutions including Polytechnics and(iv) NGOs and Voluntary Agencies registered under the Societies Registration Act 1860 (or other appropriate state law), public trusts and non-profit making companies who have completed at least 3 years of registration on the date of application and has average annual programme expenditure of 5.00 lakhs or more during


Organizations:

• http://www.giveindia.org/c-53-youth.aspx?gclid=CNvp6JmG1a4CFUN66wod8Avtdw

• http://www.ydfindia.org/

• http://www.iyfnet.org/

• http://www.amalafoundation.org/projects/?gclid=CPCyz-qH1a4CFQsb6wodhSU8aw

• http://www.theypfoundation.org/?gclid=CPHAzJyI1a4CFYV66wodsGhwbQ (Young People)

• http://www.streetkids.org/?gclid=CMHL1fuI1a4CFcEa6wodBHxVbA (Youth Poverty)

• www.smilefoundationindia.org/

• http://www.indexmundi.com/india/ (Data Source)


http://www.giveindia.org/c-53-youth.aspx?gclid=CNvp6JmG1a4CFUN66wod8Avtdw

http://www.ydfindia.org/

http://www.iyfnet.org/

http://www.amalafoundation.org/projects/?gclid=CPCyz-qH1a4CFQsb6wodhSU8aw

http://www.theypfoundation.org/?gclid=CPHAzJyI1a4CFYV66wodsGhwbQ

http://www.streetkids.org/?gclid=CMHL1fuI1a4CFcEa6wodBHxVbA

http://www.smilefoundationindia.org/

http://www.indexmundi.com/india/

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