Youth & Community
Development Strategies
We consider all adults who work with children
and youth to be “youth workers.” This includes
teachers, coaches, leaders of after-school activities, mentors,
YMCA and YWCA staff, Boy/Girl Scout leaders, and parents, as well
as those who have been formally trained as youth service workers.
Each of these adults contributes to raising healthy children.
Each of these adults shares a community-wide
responsibility for raising healthy children. A community
that recognizes this collective responsibility, and that attempts
to link all of these resources together, with a common language
and best practices, will be successful in providing a strong foundation
for guiding those children through adolescence to become constructive
members of that community.
Our training strategies are offered to any
individual or organization that educates youth or provides
youth services and support, as well as to parents. Each is developed
in collaboration with the individuals or organizations being served,
and customized to the particular needs of each.
These strategies include:
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