Area Name |
Intended Youth Outcomes
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Suggested Activities |
Working |
- Meaningful engagement in own career development process
- Demonstrated skill in work readiness
- Awareness of options for future employment, careers, and/or professional development
- Completion of educational requirements and/or involvement in training that culminates in a specific vocation or opportunity for career advancement
- Established involvement in meaningful work that offers advancement, satisfaction, and self-sufficiency
- Positive attitude about one’s ability and future in working in a particular industry or the opportunities to grow into another
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- Career exploration activities including career interest assessment, job shadowing, job/ career fairs, and workplace visits/ tours
- Internships
- Work experience including summer employment
- Information on entrepreneurship
- Networking activities
- Mock interviews
- Work readiness workshops
- Visits from representatives of specific industries to speak to youth participants about the employment opportunities and details of working within their industry
- Mock job search including web-based job searching, newspaper, “cold-calling,” resume writing, cover letter and thank you letter writing
- Visit to education and/or training programs
- Career goal setting and planning
- Job coaching or mentoring
- Learning activities using computers and other current workplace technology
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Learning |
- Basic aptitude in math and reading
- Rational problem solving
- Ability to think critically toward a positive outcome
- Logical reasoning based on personal knowledge
- Ability to determine one’s own skills and areas of academic weakness or need for further education and training
- Sense of creativity
- Appreciation and the foundation for lifelong learning, including a desire for further training and education, the knowledge of needed resources for said training, and willingness for further planning
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- Initial and ongoing skills assessment, formal and informal
- Initial and ongoing career/ vocational assessment, formal and informal
- Identification of one’s learning styles, strengths, and challenges
- Creation of a personal development plan
- Contextualized learning activities such as service-learning projects in which youth apply academic skills to community needs
- Monitoring of and accountability for own grades and creation of a continuous improvement plan based on grades and goals
- Showcase of work that highlights a youth’s learning experience—an essay, painting, algebra exam, etc.
- Development of a formal learning plan that includes long and short term goals and action steps
- Group problem-solving activities
- Preparation classes for GED, ACT, SAT, etc.
- Peer tutoring activities that enhance the skills of the tutor and the student
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Thriving |
- Understanding of growth and development as both an objective and a personal indicator of physical and emotional maturation
- Knowledge and practice of good nutrition and hygiene
- Developmentally appropriate exercise (will vary depending on a youth’s age, maturity, and range of physical abilities)
- Ability to identify situations of safety and uphold those standards in daily life
- Ability to independently assess situations and environments
- Capacity to identify and avoid risky conditions and activities at all costs
- Ability to learn from adverse situations and avoid them in the future
- Confidence and sense of self-worth in relation to their own physical and mental status
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- Workshops on benefits and consequences of various health, hygiene, and human development issues, including physical, sexual, and emotional development
- Role playing adverse situations and how to resolve them
- Personal and peer counseling
- Training in conflict management and resolution concerning family, peer, and workplace relationships
- Community mapping to create a directory of resources related to physical and mental health
- Meal planning and preparation activities
- Social activities that offer opportunities to practice skills in communication, negotiation, and personal presentation
- Sports and recreational activities
- Training in life skills
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Connecting |
- Quality relationships with adults and peers
- Interpersonal skills such as ability to build trust, handle conflict, value differences, listen actively, and communicate effectively
- Sense of belonging and membership, i.e., valuing and being valued by others, being a part of a group or greater whole
- Ability to empathize with others
- Sense of one’s own identity apart from and in relation to others
- Knowledge of and ability to seek out resources in the community
- Ability to network to develop personal and professional relationships
Youth Leadership program specific:
- Ability to communicate to get a point across
- Ability to influence others
- Ability to motivate others
- Ability to seek out role models who have been leaders
- Ability to be a role model for others
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- Mentoring activities that connect youth to adult mentors
- Tutoring activities that engage youth as tutors or in being tutored
- Research activities identifying resources in the community to allow youth to practice conversation and investigation skills
- Letter writing to friends, family members, and pen pals
- Job and trade fairs to begin building a network of contacts in their career field of interest
- Role plays of interview and other workplace scenarios
- Positive peer and group activities that build camaraderie, teamwork, and belonging
- Cultural activities that promote understanding and tolerance
Youth Leadership program specific:
- Workshops in public speaking
- Research on historical or current leaders
- Contact with local leaders
- Strategic planning to change something in the community or within the youth program
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Leading |
- Ability to articulate their personal values
- Awareness of how their personal actions impact the larger communities
- Ability to engage in the community in a positive manner
- Respect and caring for oneself and others
- Sense of responsibility to self and others
- Integrity
- Awareness of cultural differences among peers and the larger community
- High expectations for self and community
- Sense of purpose in goals and activities
- Ability to follow the lead of others when appropriate
Youth Leadership program specific:
- Ability to motivate others
- Ability to share power and distribute tasks
- Ability to work with a team
- Ability to resolve conflicts
- Ability to create and communicate a vision
- Ability to manage change and value continuous improvement
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- Personal plan development with goals, action steps, and deadlines
- Resource mapping activities in which youth take the lead in planning and carrying out a search of community resources for youth
- Voter registration and voting in local, state, and federal elections
- Participation in town hall meetings
- Community volunteerism such as organizing a park clean-up or building a playground
- Participation in a debate on a local social issue
- Training to be a peer mediator
- Participation in a letter-writing campaign
- Opportunities to meet with local and state officials and legislators
- Participation in a youth advisory committee of the city/school board/training center
- Learning activities or courses about leadership principles and styles
- Group activities that promote collaboration and team work
- Mentoring relationships with positive role models
- Opportunities to serve in leadership roles such as club officer, board member, team captain, coach
Youth Leadership program specific:
- Mediation/ conflict resolution training
- Training in team dynamics
- Training in project management
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