Youth Development Work Principles and Practices

Youth Development Work Principles and Practices Course is designed to introduce you to a range of different approaches to working with young people. You may already have experience of youth work. If so, then you have been working in a wide-ranging and complex field. However, you may have experience of only one type of youth work practice. We have designed this program so that you can get a clear understanding of several of the key practices in youth work. This will enable you to develop your insight and skill by allowing you to draw on a rich frame of reference.

Course Outcomes

When you successfully complete this program, you should be able to:

• Define Youth Development concept.
• Briefly describe, in your own words, the history and position of youth development work in your country.
• Delineate the professional role of  the youth worker.
• Explain the important factors that have affected youth development work and that influence current trends.
• Begin working effectively with young people and adults in enabling them to improve the quality of their lives.
• Select from a range of different approaches to youth development work those that are most appropriate to specific circumstances.

Course Outlines

Youth Development 

• What is Youth development? and how does it influence youth work?

Youth Development theories and practices

• Interactionist perspective – Functional Perspective

Youth Development Values

• Enabling – Empowering

Youth development work: history and traditions

• Youth development work in families and communities
• Youth work as social and leisure provision
• Out of school education
• Youth work for national development
• Youth welfare work

Youth development work: models and approaches

• Treatment Model
• Reform Model
• Advocacy Model

Youth Development Practices

• Detached and outreach
• Activity based
• Vocational
• Center or building based
• Crisis intervention
• Policy development and social planning
• Social action
• Health care
• Government

Youth Worker roles and methods

• Working face to face with young people in a variety of settings
• Managing and supporting other paid and volunteer workers
• Formulating and developing community policies for governmental and non-governmental organisations (NGOs)

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