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Participation. It’s a basic idea at the heart of the democratic ideal. One that we are at risk of analyzing to death. It’s not on a par with the youth violence craze, but youth participation may be the new growth industry in the field. Meetings to discuss definitions. Retreats to discuss need. Conferences to convene […]
If we are a profession, what do we profess? And what are the implications for training? These were the questions asked of the 150 youth workers gathered in South Africa in late March to discuss a national youth work policy. Equality, opportunities, empowerment, self-determination were the answers to the first question. Youth work, they concluded, […]
The Problem thatWon’t Go Away The Problem thatWon’t Go Away It’s back. Henry Foster’s appointment as unpaid advisor to the Clinton-backed National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy ensures that pregnancy is, once again, a national topic. Should it be? Yes. But will this round of attention have lasting impact on the problem? The reality quotient — the […]
All planning, no programming. This is Zvi Levi’s formula for success for the Women’s International Zionist OrganizationHadassim Children and Youth Village, tucked into an affluent Israeli community. The village is home to 500–600 youth,
ages 8–19, referred through a network of public and private social service agencies around the world. Living in the village
are youth who have been abandoned, abused or separated from their families. They are young people who, in this
country, we would label “multi-problem,” or, at best, “hard to reach.” Yet there were no guards, no gates. No bells, no
posted rules. No locks on lockers. No special classes, counseling sessions or therapeutic activities scheduled in 50-
minute segments. In short, no programming.
As a relative newcomer to the international world of youth development, I am struck by the amazing diversity in the basic
definition of youth around the globe. Here in the Unites States, adolescence legally ends somewhere between 16 and 21 (depending upon the adult privilege being bestowed). Socially and economically, it continues to push out of the teen years
and into the twenties as the traditional markers of self-sufficiency — job, marriage, independent living space — take longer to achieve.
“First we humanize them.” Thus began Father Rocky’s 45-minute description of how the Tuloy sa Don Bosco (Don Bosco Center) works with scores of the hundreds of street children who live in and around downtown Manila. My heart dropped with his opening line. I was offended by the implication that these children, because they lived […]
Grocery stores. Why aren’t neighborhood youth centers like grocery stores? So much an accepted necessity for family functioning that no one would voluntarily choose to live in a neighborhood that did not have access to at least one and preferably several — convenience, full service, specialty. When moving into a neighborhood, families look for functions […]
For two decades now, I have participated in conversations about how to take community-based youth programs to scale, demonstrate effectiveness, define outcomes, explain key inputs. Progress has been made, but it gives one pause to reflect on the number of hours that have been devoted to the task. Let me suggest a reason for our […]