Youth Today
All posts tagged "developmental relationships"
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1.3KOpinionYoung people need more than safer screens
Rural Youth Institute's Meg Taft argues Meta settlement dollars should fund real-world developmental relationships — not just safer apps — for young...
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1.6KOpinionWhen the plan fails, change the plan
What if the plan is the problem, not the young person? Five field leaders make the case for asking youth why —...
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2.1KOpinionThe boys we’re losing — and the prevention we’re missing
The emotional isolation of boys is shaped by long-standing norms that reward suppression and discourage vulnerability.
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1.6KFrom the FieldYouth development’s missing link? Intergenerational connection
Intergenerational connection allows older adults to have companionship that matters and for youth to build genuine connections.
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2.4KOpinionNearly 200 student stories reveal what AI can’t replace: Relationships
Students are making it clear that AI cannot replace a human developmental relationship.
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1.5KFrom the FieldOn developmental relationships
Katherine Plog Martinez speaks with Gene Roehlkepartain on how strong developmental relationships are the "active ingredient" in successful youth programs.
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1.7KFrom the FieldOn learning and meaning making
Katherine Plog-Martinez speaks with Kim Sabo Flores about how meaning making—reflecting on and making sense of experiences—is crucial to youth development.
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3.5KOpinionA capstone essay on 50 years of promoting positive youth development
Positive youth development researchers/practitioners must remain steadfast in providing every young person with developmental assets and relationships.
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3.9KFrom the FieldFrom relationships to opportunities: What we learned about social capital mobilization
Access to developmental relationships is important. But young people also need the skills, confidence and support to mobilize those connections.
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7.2KFrom the FieldWhat back-to-school season reveals about youth in foster care — and the attendance crisis
Foster youth miss school, repeat grades and drop out more compared to their peers.
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2.8KFrom the FieldFrom athlete to coach: A new ascent
A youth sports coach discusses the challenges young athletes face growing up within their sport and how becoming a coach can be...
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1.9KOpinionUnexpected mentors: Every new positive connection really does count
How can we look for ways to expand or deepen youth-adult relationships?
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3.5KFrom the FieldExpanding horizons, essential relationships: The evidence of afterschool impacts
We learn and grow through relationships — and when these are paired with high quality learning and leadership opportunities, real transformation happens.
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7.5KFrom the FieldIn San Antonio, TX, youth development programs work together toward a shared vision of youth thriving
Excel Academy focuses on strengthening youth development workers’ capacity to build relationships with youth.
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6.4KFrom the FieldShifting the culture of youth sport by supporting coaches
To incorporate positive youth development principles, coaching must be about more than drills and playbooks.
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9.2KOpinionReimagining youth sport: Putting positive youth development first
Youth sport can grounded in principles of positive youth development with a little support.
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4.8KFrom the FieldQ&A: How service learning, done well, changes lives
Karen Pittman speaks with YSA's Scott Ganske about the current state of service learning.
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1.9KOpinionWe don’t have to choose which adolescent challenge to tackle. They are all linked to the same five non-negotiables for optimizing development.
Direct interactions with youth need all five elements to optimize impact.
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2.6KOpinionCan you legislate a collaborative, youth-centered vision of education? Iceland did.
Iceland passed the Wellbeing Act mandating that all youth-field professionals collaborate across sectors.
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3.0KFrom the FieldBeyond the classroom: Reimagining school, family and community engagement for Black youth
For Black youth especially, education happens through interconnected efforts of schools, families and communities.
